Levantamento bibliométrico do perfil das publicações sobre educação financeira realizadas na base Spell

Abstract

Financial education is a topic of such importance to contemporary society that international organizations such as the OECD, the World Bank, and the IMF have decided to encourage countries to financially educate their citizens. Therefore, financial education should provide citizens with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to become more aware of financial risks and opportunities—in other words, it should make them financially literate. In Brazil, efforts to implement financial education began with the establishment of the National Financial Education Strategy (ENEF). Therefore, this research aimed to identify the profile of scientific literature on the topic of "financial education" and verify their adherence to the National Financial Education Strategy (ENEF). In this sense, this research aimed to identify the profile of national scientific production on financial education. To this end, an exploratory, bibliographic, quantitative study was developed, whose bibliometric analysis sought to identify the profile of articles published in journals on the Spell (Scientific Periodicals Electronic Library) platform, related to the topic in question, from a time frame between 2018 and 2022. The research analyzed 28 publications, and the results showed that the articles were mostly co-authored, usually by two authors. The majority of the first authors were female, PhD holders, with academic degrees in Business Administration or Accounting, and affiliated with public educational institutions. The region and state with the most publications on the research topic were the Southeast and Minas Gerais, respectively. The institution with the largest number of articles was UFU-MG. Most of the studies were classified as descriptive, with a quantitative approach, and used questionnaires, both electronic and in-person, as data collection methods.