Bibliometric analysis of construction dispute

Abstract

Construction dispute is common all over the world. Moreover, it has been identified as the cause of the deficiency and low performance of the construction industry. Therefore, the continued occurrence of this dispute calls for more research. A bibliometric analysis was carried out to identify the trend in the construction dispute research area and a total number of 1026 of publications from Scopus and 457 publications from Web of Science were retrieved. The result shows similarities in both databases in the construction dispute subject area. However, the high publications in Scopus indicates that Web of Science has low publications in the area of social sciences, art and humanities. Furthermore, the retrieved publication from both databases were analyzed using VOSviewer. The result shows that most of the publications focused more on managing already existing dispute by litigation, arbitration, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and a lack in the area of dispute prevention methods.