Lean Construction Supply Chain: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Knowledge Base
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The construction industry known for its adoption of ideas from other industries has also adopted lean thinking from the manufacturing sector for managing construction supply chains. Towards the successful adoption of this concept, there is a need to establish the philosophy surrounding is application within the construction industry. Thus, this study conducts a bibliometric analysis with the intention of discovering intellectual progress within lean concepts, relevant authors and philosophies surrounding lean construction supply chain concepts. The study adopted VOSviewer software through the assistance of citation, co-citation and keywords analysis to present a bibliometric and network analysis. A total of eight hundred and fifty Scopus indexed articles were extracted and used for the analysis. Through the analysis we have revealed the most important authors, journals and articles supporting lean concept. Also discovered are the major school of thought related to lean construction supply chain which are; waste reduction, just in time, integration and pre-fabrication. This review points to the benefits of using bibliometric network analysis for unearthing the practices of lean construction supply chain. These findings contribute to using a new research methodology for analysing the contribution of lean concept to the construction supply chain.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.031 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.186 | 0.175 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".