Disruptive Methodologies for developing Critical Thinking and Financial Decision Making in Latin American university students

Abstract

A documentary review was carried out on the production and publication of research papers related to the study of the variable Disruptive Methodologies focused on the development of Critical Thinking and Financial Decision Making in Latin American university students. The purpose of the bibliometric analysis proposed in this paper, is to know the main characteristics of the volume of publications registered in Scopus database during the period 2015-2020 in Latin American countries, achieving the identification of 171 publications. The information provided by said platform was organized by means of tables and figures categorizing the information by Year of Publication, Country of Origin, Area of Knowledge and Type of Publication. Once these characteristics were described, a qualitative analysis was used to refer to the position of different authors on the proposed topic. Among the main findings of this research, it is found that Brazil, with 63 publications, is the Latin American country with the highest production. The Area of Knowledge that made the greatest contribution to the construction of bibliographic material referring to the study of Disruptive Methodologies focused on the development of Critical Thinking and Financial Decision Making in Latin American university students was Social Sciences with 104 published documents, and the Type of Publication that was most used during the period indicated above was the Journal Article, representing 68% of the total scientific production.