Economic viability: A bibliometric study in the Scopus database

The present work aimed to perform a detailed search on the methods applicable to the calculation of economic viability. The database used to develop this systematized literature review was Scopus Elsevier, accessed through the Capes Journal Portal. The study allowed to obtain a theoretical contribution to the accomplishment of the general objective of this dissertation. For each method, the resulting articles 3 were analysed and selected for presentation of a brief summary in order to exemplify the content available. It was possible to observe the state of the art of the theme, since the methodology allowed to identify the years with the highest frequency of periodical publication, and authors who published that subject, the countries with more engagement in this context, the types of mostly used publication and the areas of knowledge with the highest volume of published articles .It is also, possible to verify that the method tends to be increasingly applied, mainly within the area of Engineering, which was the area that stood out in this study ,due to its flexibility to apply it in different scenarios. It was also found that China is the country with the most indexed documents on this basis, according to this issue.