part of urban environments, characterized by low traffic, by interconnecting communities located in towns and villages, allow access to the agricultural market and the design speed is less than higher-ranking routes. Rural roads are extremely important infrastructure for the social and economic development of rural communities, often located in mountainous or semidesert places, where access to basic health and education services is very complex. In this paper, a bibliometric analysis has been applied to the theme of rural roads to identify the most important trends and influences, facilitating an organized view of the peculiarities and developments in their field of research. Consequently, a total of 433 publications made between 1968 and 2020 related to the term rural roads in Scopus were identified. The 433 publications contain 878 authors, 176 journals, 41 countries or territories, and 321 institutions. From the analysis completed, four main research areas related to the rural roads...