Trends in the scientific publication on retirement: A brief report

Abstract

This study aimed to synthesize the scientific publication on retirement between 1991 and 2015. Analysis were done using the software Iramuteq to systematize papers extracted from Scopus database that included the word retirement (N = 18,362). Results have shown that North American and European countries are among the most productive. Health and economics are the most researched fields and are interconnected by a common interest in public policy. Relevant topics, such as retirement education, were absent from the main results. It is discussed that the number of publications is associated with national investment in research and development and has little relationship with the proportion of elderly individuals. A broader and interdisciplinary research agenda is recommended.

Exploring Women's Retirement Literature through Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer

“…The final outcome is restricted to scientific studies from the Scopus database. Following the same route taken by preceding bibliometric studies (e.g., Gallego-Losada et al, 2021;Tomar et al, 2021;Osei-Kyei et al, 2020;Barbosa et al, 2020), prior publications on women's retirement were sourced from the Scopus collection on November 10, 2021. Scopus was preferred due to its status as one of the world's top comprehensive peer-reviewed databases, which provides quality research.…”

“…As shown in Table 1, the early development of bibliometric studies of retirement made available in the Scopus database was contributed by Barbosa et al (2020) for the years between 1991 and 2015 using the Iramuteq software. Based on the Scopus database, their study analysed 18,362 publications that included the word 'retirement'.…”