O estado da arte da produção científica sobre o uso de nudges em periódicos nacionais e internacionais entre 2011 e 2023

Abstract

Behavioral Economics is an area that has a great capacity to contribute to social well- being. This is because it complements contemporary issues with new discoveries, such as nudges. In this context, the work aims to analyze the state of the art of scientific production on the use of nudges in national and international journals between 2011 and 2023. The research will be descriptive and quantitative. Consequently, a bibliometric analysis is carried out, using publications found in the Scopus database in the selected period. Finally, the results are analyzed and illustrated with the help of Vosviewer software, “Analyze search results” and Excel. In this scenario, it was possible to analyze the situation of scientific production in Brazil, analyze the temporal evolution of the 214 articles, identify the authors, sources and the most productive countries, analyze the co-occurrence of keywords, the co-citations of references and the bibliographical closed. The results indicate that scientific production on the topic is recent and is concentrated in the United States and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, the co-occurrence of keywords shows that there are many terms related to health issues and economic issues. Brazil was the eighth most productive country and responsible for producing many works that address the potential of nudges in public policies. Therefore, the study brings together a lot of information about what is being produced and reinforces the importance of several scholars in the area of Behavioral Economics.