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A Review and Scientometric Analysis of Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) Research in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry
Version 1
: Received: 29 June 2019 / Approved: 2 July 2019 / Online: 2 July 2019 (03:39:02 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 4 July 2019 / Approved: 9 July 2019 / Online: 9 July 2019 (03:42:40 CEST)
How to cite:
Liu, Z.; Lu, Y.; Peh, L.C. A Review and Scientometric Analysis of Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) Research in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry. Preprints2019, 2019070026. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0026.v2
Liu, Z.; Lu, Y.; Peh, L.C. A Review and Scientometric Analysis of Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) Research in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry. Preprints 2019, 2019070026. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0026.v2
Liu, Z.; Lu, Y.; Peh, L.C. A Review and Scientometric Analysis of Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) Research in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry. Preprints2019, 2019070026. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0026.v2
APA Style
Liu, Z., Lu, Y., & Peh, L.C. (2019). A Review and Scientometric Analysis of Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) Research in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0026.v2
Chicago/Turabian Style
Liu, Z., Yujie Lu and Lu Chang Peh. 2019 "A Review and Scientometric Analysis of Global Building Information Modelling (BIM) Research in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201907.0026.v2
Abstract
In the recent decade, Building Information Modelling (BIM) has widely been adopted in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry and completely upended the way we build. While BIM continues gain momentum in the industry, it has also attracted increasing attentions from researchers. However, most of the current study focuses on reviewing BIM for management, BIM for green building, BIM for infrastructure and BIM for Facilities Management (FM). There are few studies about Global BIM review and to discuss their complex inter-connections. In this study, we adopted a scientometric analysis method to review global BIM research from 2004-2019. A total of 1455 scholarly bibliographic records obtained from Web of Science Core Collection databased were established for the analysis. This study has identified the top productive and influential researchers, research institutes, regions/countries, subject categories and journals in the BIM field. In addition, 11 clusters of Global BIM research were also identified including construction project, green BIM, construction safety planning, automated IFC-based workflow and so on. Authors distinguished 11 clusters of global BIM research into 3 stages, namely formulating stage, accelerating stage and transforming stage. Furthermore, authors reviewed the BIM policy of Singapore and observed there is a co-production relationship between evolution of BIM policy and global BIM research. These findings provide valuable information for researchers, practitioners and policy makers by visualizing the current progress in the research field of BIM and highlighting future research needs.
Keywords
building information modelling; co-citation network; literature review; research visualization; scientometrics
Subject
Engineering, Civil Engineering
Copyright:
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