A bird's eye of Prefabricated Construction based on bibliometric analysis from 2010 to 2019

Abstract

Prefabricated construction (PC) is an effective way to sovle the unsustainable issues caused by conventional construction methods. To analyse the status and frontier dynamics of PC, this paper provides a bibliometric analysis of 1162 papers on PC publications from the Web of Science (WoS) database for the 2010-2019 period. In the paper, we firstly investigate the publication and citation structure of PC, then co-authorship network of countries/regions and institutes are detected as well. Finally, cited sources and research topics are explored by conducting co-citation network and co-occurrence network, respectively. This paper provides useful and new insights to summarize the progress of PC in a bird's eye and brings a reference to the future development of PC.