Bibliometric analysis of the literature on risk management in the construction sector: Exploring current and future trends

Abstract

The literature's current state of the art and future research directions for risk management in the construction sector are described and analyzed in this paper. Web of Science and VOSviewer-Based Literature: A Bibliometric and Visualization Tool. A web of science core collection of 676 research publications on risk management and the construction sector written between 2000 and 2021 was examined. The work investigates cluster analysis, co-occurrences analysis of authors' keywords, and mapping of bibliographic coupling. Results show the contribution of 61 authors from 80 countries, 45 institutions, and 20 keywords were identified and organized in three clusters: Risk management in construction project management, Enterprise risk management in the construction sector, and Effective project management for the construction project success.

Keywords

• Risk management
• Construction sector
• Bibliometric analysis
• Co-occurrences analysis