Despite these weaknesses, however,
the Journal is considered by many construction management researchers to be one
of the leading refereed publications in its field. This is supported by the very high
levels of copy flow and the high rejection rate (see Taylor and Francis, 2007).
Furthermore, it is reasonable to assume that, given that reviewers of papers are drawn
from the construction management research community, that any bias towards
methodological approaches would even itself out over time. The year selected for
analysis, 2006 was the most recent year for which a full year’s worth of papers
were available. Furthermore, the Journal switched to a 12-issue format in 2006 which
enables more papers to be considered in the analysis. Thus, whilst this chapter makes
no claims as to the statistical reliability of the findings presented, and draws upon a
wholly qualitative analysis of the narrative description of the methods employed within
the papers, it does enable a simplified cross-sectional view of the dominant position of
the research community