Volume 19, No. 4, 2022

Financial Inclusion: An Analysis In The World And Colombia


John Arturo Buelvas Parra , William Niebles Nuñez , Jhon Jairo Feria Díaz

Abstract

In this research a bibliometric analysis was carried out to identify the trends of scientific publications on the thematic area "Financial inclusion" at the Colombian and international level, the exploration of the literature was oriented to articles published between 2002 and 2022, the search was limited to the areas of knowledge related to management sciences and economics. For information retrieval, the meta-search engines Wos and Scopus were used, which are the best indexed databases used by researchers, the files were downloaded in bibtex format, then 765 repeated records at international level were unified and discarded, leaving a single file in csv format with 1940 documents, the file with the total of the records was processed with the statistical program RStudio. Among the findings obtained, it is highlighted that the annual research production had an increasing trend, where the year with more production was 2019 with 254 contributions, the journal with more impact at international level was "World development" and at Colombian level "Social indicators research", the country that contributes most to the research area at world level is India with 483, followed by the United States with 237 works, the most relevant institution is Makerere University Business School and finally the author with more impact in Colombia and internationally are Almeyda G. and Munene J. respectively.


Pages: 357-376

Keywords: Colombia, financial inclusion, bibliometric analysis, literature review.

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