About the ARCOM CM Abstracts

The Construction Management Abstracts site contains the titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords of articles from several Construction Management journals, from recent ARCOM Conference Proceedings, and from PhD theses.

This catalogue of abstracts is one of ARCOM's most important outputs. The purpose is to give easy access to the literature on construction management, defined as the application of the social sciences in the construction sector. It can be difficult to find journal papers and doctoral theses in this area, especially for those not used to searching for this kind of information. By providing this catalogue, we hope to facilitate access to previous research for researchers and practitioners in this area.

Here you will find the full titles, authors, abstracts, and keywords of articles from several leading Construction Management journals, recent ARCOM Conference Proceedings, and PhD theses. Please let us have your PhD abstract if you find that it is not already in the database. The journals currently covered in the database are:

  • African Journal of Built Environment Research
  • Architectural Engineering and Design Management
  • ARCOM Annual Conferences (since 1997)
  • Building Research & Information
  • Buildings and Cities
  • Built Environment Project and Asset Management
  • Construction Economics and Building (previously 'Australian Journal of' and 'Australasian Journal of')
  • Construction Innovation
  • Construction Management and Economics
  • Construction Papers (ceased in 1983)
  • Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management
  • International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation
  • International Journal of Construction Education and Research
  • International Journal of Construction Management
  • International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment
  • International Journal of Law in the Built Environment (ceased 2017)
  • Journal of Construction Business and Management
  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Journal of Construction in Developing Countries
  • Journal of Construction Procurement (ceased in 2006)
  • Journal of Construction Research (ceased in 2006)
  • Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology
  • Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction
  • PhD Theses
  • Smart and Sustainable Built Environment

As well as updating the database regularly with new papers from the chosen journals, we also include past years of the ARCOM annual conference proceedings. Older ARCOM conference papers are not available online, so you will need to use Inter-Library loans to request copies of any that you do not have (ask your librarian if you do not know about Inter-Library loans).

You may be aware that this service was originally available as a hard copy, to those who wished to purchase it. The money from the sales of the hard copy volumes helped to cover the initial expense of setting up the database, and now that these costs have been recouped, the annual maintenance costs are met from the ARCOM budget, so there is no need to charge for use of this service. Indeed, we feel strongly that as a learned society, the provision of this service to as wide an audience as possible fits centrally within our remit. Therefore, we decided to provide the service as an online searchable database. This is now available to anyone with web access. If your library has an old copy of the printed abstracts, please let them know about this online service. We have discontinued the provision of hard copies.

Additional Publications

If you are the publisher or editor of a journal you think should be added, please prepare a brief analysis that shows us how many of the papers in our database are cited by the proposed journal and vice versa. We can provide guidance on how to prepare the data using Scopus to generate a report on the number of citations of every journal cited in every paper from your journal. Once you have this information, please send it to [email protected]. We will review it and consider the request in the context of the citation landscape.

Contact Information

Any correspondence concerning this catalogue should be sent to [email protected].