Análise bibliométrica de estudos em educação financeira

Abstract

Considering the importance of financial education and the need to educate citizens with regard to their resources, in Brazil, plans and strategies were determined with the aim of disseminating the subject, however, despite the efforts, a significant portion of the population has not yet has sufficient knowledge for better financial health. In view of this, this study sought to investigate the profile of scientific publications on Financial Education developed in the country from 2015 to 2020, in order to identify aspects such as frequency of publications, predominance of central issues, gender and region of researchers, as well as to point out the prevalent type of research depending on the classification of studies regarding objectives, approaches to the research problem and techniques employed, qualis of journals and the impact index of these publications. Thus, this descriptive, qualitative, quantitative, and bibliometric study analyzed all 20 works with Financial Education in the title, found on the CAPES journal portal. The results showed that the annual average from 2015 to 2020 was 4 works. 70% of them were published in journals with qualis A and the rest, qualis B. A gender prevalence of the authors was not identified, however, it was only possible to identify an h-index of 30% of them, and it is possible to state that, among them, the h index ranged from 1 to 59, and it can be said that there was a prevalence of authors with high impact, since 2/3 of these 15 authors had more than 100 citations. As for the typology, it was observed a prevalence of exploratory, qualitative work, and with data collected through field research. It is concluded that it is important to encourage the dissemination of this topic in the country, since most publications found are more recurrent in the south and southeast of the country, with few co-authorship networks and by a very small number of Brazilian institutions.