Bibliometric analysis of scientific production on corruption and local governments

Abstract

Introduction. Corruption is a serious problem that involves governments and their highest officials, affects all regions of the world and all levels of society, it is not recent, it is not an episodic phenomenon, but a problem of a historical, structural and systemic, which leads to the population losing credibility in its institutions. The misuse of public power, to obtain benefits for oneself or for third parties to the detriment of the general welfare. In this context, emerging countries are the most affected by this phenomenon called corruption. Thus, an analysis is carried out on the relationship between corruption and local governments based on a bibliometric analysis in the last 5 years. Objective. Determine the level of scientific production in relation to corruption and local governments in the Scopus, Scielo, EBSCOhost, Dialnet and DOAJ databases from the years 2017 to 2021. Materials and methods. This article was developed through a bibliometric analysis, being a descriptive-comparative research with an inductive methodological approach, the review was carried out with a sample of 4171 articles published in the databases of indexed journals, leaving 199 after the filter. Results. After filtering, 199 articles were identified, of which 148 were from the EBSCOhost database, 22 from Scopus, 17 from DOAJ, 11 from Dialnet and 1 from Scielo. Scientific researchers prefer the English language to make their publications, and the largest scientific production occurred in 2019. Discussion. The scientific production of the developed theme was worked under a qualitative research cut. Conclution. Scientific production on the issue of corruption and local governments in the years 2017 to 2020 is scarce.