Trend-Analysis and Research Direction in Construction Management Literature

Planning and scheduling, in the forms of both pre-assembly construction as well as increase in cost and time, are all themes that haven't been studied in a trend-analysis with the purpose of finding gaps and research directions in the literature. The aim of this paper is to analyze these trends in the literature to find which journals have published the most relevant articles, how the trends of publications have been the last decade and, finally, which year includes the most new results. The trend-analysis is conducted in four stages (which include input, process, analysis, and output) where 561 papers were found. By following the stages, 61 A-papers were found relevant to the trend-analysis. The main finding of the trend analysis indicates that 2006 was the year in which the most publications were published. Finally, it was found that 42.6% of the A-papers were published in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.