Leadership in Construction: A Scientometric Review

Leadership plays an increasingly important role in construction projects, and numerous research studies have been conducted. This study aims to identify the structure evolution development trends of this knowledge domain using visualisation analysis with CiteSpace. A total 1789 peer-reviewed articles are collected from Scopus WoS core collection database conduct a scientometric analysis. The results indicate that US dominates field institutions Australia made greater contributions. However, international cooperation area is not active. eight co-citation clusters were identified, leadership primarily focused on topics transactional leadership, safety team performance, interaction processes actual leader behaviour. keywords co-occurrence was also conducted provide holistic map. Based its current status, we propose innovative areas for future research. findings would help scholars understand field. Meanwhile, reference enterprises formulate project manager competency criteria.