A bibliographic review on social technologies

Abstract

Social technology is an area of solidarity economy that aims to create and use knowledge to promote the economic and social inclusion of excluded populations. Since the literature on this subject is still very restricted, the aim of this article is to investigate the advance of scientific knowledge on social technologies through bibliometric indicators of scientific production and to make a bibliographical analysis on the main articles published in Scielo Citation Index and the proceedings of Encontro Nacional de Engenharia de Produção—ENEGEP. Among the results of the research, the low number of documents published in relation to other areas of research and the notoriety of Brazil in this field of research stand out with 69.7% of all publications. In this way, it is possible to perceive that this field of knowledge is still incipient and that many documents are published in books, proceedings of specific events and journals not indexed in the Web of Science or Scielo.