Trend-Analysis and Research Direction in Construction Management Literature

Planning and scheduling, both in the form of pre-assembly construction as well as increase in cost and time are all themes that haven’t been studies in a trend-analysis, with the purpose of finding gaps and research directions in the literature. The aim of this paper is therefor to analyze these trends in the literature to find which journal have published most relevant articles, how the trends of publications have been the last decade, and finally which year includes most new results. The trend-analysis is conducted in four stages which includes input, process, analysis, and output stage where 561 papers were found, and by the following stages 61 A-papers were found relevant to the trend-analysis. The main finding of the trend-analyze indicates that 2006 was the year where 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.