FINANCIAL EVALUATION AND EMPLOYABILITY WORLDWIDE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

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Juan Carlos Rios1
John Buelvas Parra
William Niebles Nuñez

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Bibliometric analysis, Literature review, Financial evaluation, Employability, Employment.

Abstract

This research document presents a bibliometric analysis carried out with the objective of identifying global trends in scientific publications on the intersection between financial evaluation and employability. The literature exploration was carried out using the Scopus database, using search strategies such as the use of Boolean operators and synonyms of keywords, recovering a total of 108 research works totally relevant to the area. study. The variables used to carry out the study metrics were downloaded from the metasearch engine in Bibtex format, in order to be compatible with the Bibliometrix package of the R statistical program. The findings state that the annual growth rate between 1980 and 2023 was 3.28 %, with the years 2019 and 2022 being the most productive, with 10 documents produced in each of these. The United States turned out to be the country that has contributed the most in this field, with 56 documents, followed by the United Kingdom with 27 and Colombia with 15. The magazines that have had the most impact in this field are Agricultural Water Management and Energy Conversion and Management. The researcher with the highest H index is Banks J., with an indicator of 3 and the most relevant institutions were the University of Leeds and the University of Medellín in Colombia. Finally, it was concluded that the key terms "Financial assessment" and "Financial valuation" are emerging topics in this field of study and at the moment no relationship is observed with the terms "Employment", "Employ" or "Job".

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