Studies on cooperativism at the Brazilian Cost Congress: Bibliometric analysis of scientific production from 1994 to 2018

Abstract

The present study sought to map and analyze the scientific production on cooperativism in the Anais of the Brazilian Cost Congress from 1994 to 2018. For this, 55 articles selected from the defined sampling criteria, published in nineteen editions of the Congress, were analyzed. From the bibliometric analysis of the data it was possible to identify that the year 1999, the sixth edition of Congress, was the year in which the first work on cooperativism was published and that the majority (10.91%) of the studies was published in the 11th edition in 2004. The study allowed identifying a number of 148 different authors, which generated an average of 2.7 authors per study; 67.8% of the authors come from the southern region of Brazil; there is the predominance of 40.0% of papers written by 3 authors and the use of the case study as a research instrument, being present in 69.1% of the publications. It is hoped that the study can contribute to the knowledge of the state of the art of research on cooperativism and assist in the dissemination of studies on this theme.