Scientometric Analysis of Climate Change and Construction Cost Research: Trends, Gaps, and Future Directions

This project gives a full scientometric review of the worldwide academic work that links climate change with construction cost management. We built a clean data set that includes peer‑reviewed articles, conference papers, and book chapters from the main scientific databases. Using that data, we map the field’s intellectual structure, where the research is coming from, and how it has changed over time. Our methods rely on modern bibliometric software—VOSviewer and the Bibliometrix package in R. With these tools we: * run basic bibliometric statistics, * create co‑occurrence networks, * detect bursts of keywords using the Kleinberg algorithm, * perform thematic cluster analysis. The results show a sharp rise in publications

during the past ten years. However, the output is unevenly spread: most studies come from developed countries, while highly vulnerable areas such as Sub‑Saharan Africa are barely represented. By pointing out major knowledge gaps, active research fronts, and existing collaboration networks, the study offers a clear framework for future work, policy making, and cost‑effective climate‑adaptation plans in civil and environmental engineering. It can serve as a solid starting point for further research on sustainable infrastructure development.

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