WORLD BANK AND EDUCATION

a bibliometric approach about the literature

Abstract

This work discusses an over view of academic production on the World Bank and Education from a bibliometric approach. The Scopus database was chosen as a secondary search source. The database resulting from the search was refined in three stages: a) analysis of titles, b) number of citations and c) availability of articles for free access, resulting in a corpus N=56. The analysis was based on criteria of the authors’ scientific activity, impact of the productions and thematic associations, supported by data processing through the VOSviewer Software. The results expressed in the form of chronological distribution, main thematic interrelationships and identification of authorship and influence networks constitute important contributions of this study.