Prospective scenarios: A literature review on the Scopus database

The use of prospective scenarios has been discussed by companies in different sectors. As such, this work seeks to study the literature on the prospection of scenarios, permitting different types of analyses and applications. A bibliometric study was performed on the Scopus database, accessed from the CAPES portal in April 2015 and updated in June 2017 in order to identify how the articles about the term prospective scenarios are presented in the literature. 87 articles on the subject were found indexed on Scopus, of which only 17 were from Brazil. It is expected, therefore, that this work will contribute to the construction of an overview of the existing literature on prospective scenarios in order to stimulate the interest of more researchers for the subject.