TY - JOUR
T1 - Corruption in construction projects
T2 - Bibliometric analysis of global research
AU - Zhai, Zhao
AU - Shan, Ming
AU - Darko, Amos
AU - Chan, Albert P.C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number: 71901224), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (grant number: 2020JJ5779), the Education Department of the Hunan Province (grant number: 20C0029) and the Changsha Municipal Natural Science Foundation (grant number: kq2014116).
Funding Information:
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Acknowledgments: The authors gratefully acknowledge Changsha University of Science and Technology, Central South University and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for supporting this research. Special appreciation also goes to the editors and reviewers whose constructive and invaluable comments and suggestions played a decisive role in significantly improving the quality of this work.
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PY - 2021/4/2
Y1 - 2021/4/2
N2 - Corruption has been identified as a major problem in construction projects. It can jeopardize the success of these projects. Consequently, corruption has garnered significant attention in the construction industry over the past two decades, and several studies on corruption in construction projects (CICP) have been conducted. Previous efforts to analyze and review this body of knowledge have been manual, qualitative and subjective, thus prone to bias and limited in the number of reviewed studies. There remains a lack of inclusive, quantitative, objective and computational analysis of global CICP research to inform future research, policy and practice. This study aims to address this lack by providing the first inclusive bibliometric study exploring the state-of-the-art of global CICP research. To this end, a quantitative and objective technique aided by CiteSpace was used to systematically and computationally analyze a large corpus of 542 studies retrieved from the Web of Science and published from 2000 to 2020. The findings revealed major and influential CICP research journals, persons, institutions, countries, references and areas of focus, as well as revealing how these interact with each other in research networks. This study contributes to the in-depth understanding of global research on CICP. By highlighting the principal research areas, gaps, emerging trends and directions, as well as patterns in CICP research, the findings could help researchers, practitioners and policy makers position their future CICP research and/or mitigation strategies.
AB - Corruption has been identified as a major problem in construction projects. It can jeopardize the success of these projects. Consequently, corruption has garnered significant attention in the construction industry over the past two decades, and several studies on corruption in construction projects (CICP) have been conducted. Previous efforts to analyze and review this body of knowledge have been manual, qualitative and subjective, thus prone to bias and limited in the number of reviewed studies. There remains a lack of inclusive, quantitative, objective and computational analysis of global CICP research to inform future research, policy and practice. This study aims to address this lack by providing the first inclusive bibliometric study exploring the state-of-the-art of global CICP research. To this end, a quantitative and objective technique aided by CiteSpace was used to systematically and computationally analyze a large corpus of 542 studies retrieved from the Web of Science and published from 2000 to 2020. The findings revealed major and influential CICP research journals, persons, institutions, countries, references and areas of focus, as well as revealing how these interact with each other in research networks. This study contributes to the in-depth understanding of global research on CICP. By highlighting the principal research areas, gaps, emerging trends and directions, as well as patterns in CICP research, the findings could help researchers, practitioners and policy makers position their future CICP research and/or mitigation strategies.
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - CiteSpace
KW - Construction projects
KW - Corruption
KW - Knowledge map
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85104777692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/su13084400
DO - 10.3390/su13084400
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85104777692
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 13
JO - Sustainability (Switzerland)
JF - Sustainability (Switzerland)
IS - 8
M1 - 4400
ER -
