"Lights under a Bushel": a digest of highly cited papers from Construction Economics and Building

There are times when a new editor ponders the iron triangle of quality submissions, readership, and citations, how to improve them. It was during such musing that colleague from UTS/OJS pointed out this journal had produced suite highly cited papers continuing grow. They went on illustrate point with list stopped at lower limit 30 observing there every likelihood further good, recently published would continue habit, given sufficient time (3-5 years).
 
 Grateful for their observations I scanned buoyed by thoughts these were product (i.e. relevant, reflecting topics contemporary ongoing concern), clearly well executed – conceptually methodologically written in an engaging style. were, self-evidently be read cited, though issue growing our readership continues challenge.
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