Towards Complexity and Dynamics: A Bibliometric-Qualitative Review of Network Research in Construction

Table 4

Distribution of publications by period and categories of network analysis.

	1997–2000	2001–2004	2005–2008	2009–2012	2013–2016	2017–2020	Total
Category I	4	2	2	6	9	14	37
Category II	0	0	0	4	6	6	16
Category III	0	0	2	8	11	21	42
Category IV	0	0	0	3	3	7	13
Total	4	2	4	21	29	48	108

Note: the sample size for content analysis is 108 as two studies include multicategory analyses [47, 54].