A Systematic Review of Research Papers on Construction Education and Research: 2000-2011

Abstract

Despite construction being a major contributor to the national economy of the United States, the discipline has received inadequate attention from researchers and scholars, except lately. Being a developing field, research endeavors in this field is constantly evolving. The paper reports the results of an eleven-year analysis of the IJCER technical papers. Based on content analysis of the technical papers published in IJCER from 2000 till 2011 utilizing the keywords as the recording units, this paper identified the major research topics of interest in this discipline. While the paper provided the scholars and practitioners a baseline understanding of the current research trend, it also highlighted the under-researched topics in this discipline.