  Agile methodologies are currently considered one of the main paradigms of
software development. Its study, from a scientific point of view, has deserved
prominence in recent years by the scientific community related to the area of
software engineering. This study intends to perform a bibliometric analysis of
the quantity, characteristics and scope of the most relevant studies published
in this area of knowledge. The findings indicate that the number of studies
published from 2010 to 2016 significantly increased, having reached a peak in
2015. The study identifies the main journals and conferences in the field and
we also concluded that the majority of published studies are literature reviews
of agile software development, and qualitative and quantitative research
methods have identical number of publications.
