Visualization Analysis of BIM Research Hotspot and Evolutional Trend

Abstract

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has gained rapid development and received broad worldwide attention among researchers and architects. To grasp the research progress of BIM is of great significance for researchers and enterprises engaged in BIM related studies and plotted a science knowledge map by with the visualization tool CiteSpace, and used biliometric analysis to compare BIM studies published from 2008 to 2018 in China and abroad from three perspectives: knowledge base, research hotspot and evolutional trend. The research result shows that BIM studies abroad focus on interdisciplinary fields, but Chinese BIM studies focus more on application of BIM technologies in actual projects. Research on integration of BIM with Internet, big data, cloud computing and other information technologies is bound to become a new research trend of BIM in China.