The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry demands collaboration between multiple high specialization organizations. These complex interorganizational and interdisciplinary project teams are a unique set of project teams that are mostly contracted for a temporary time where collaborators in most cases have no prior or future work relations with one another. While the teams research is at the heart of this and is well established in organizational project teams domain, there exists an established need to study teams in the context of interorganizational and interdisciplinary project teams. In the past two decades, scoping review as a research methodology has proved effective in determining future research directions for advancement of various aspects of research on project teams. However, scoping review of project teams literature utilizing a citation network analysis (CNA) approach has not been used to find research directions specific to complex AEC interorganizational project teams while also evaluating their place in the larger spectrum of project teams research.In response to this need, this study carried out a scoping review on a sample of publications studying project team settings across multiple domains. The publications were analyzed through citation network analysis tools which included several types of networks where nodes in the network represented journals, publications, countries, and keywords while the links between them highlighted the collaboration relations. Deliverables included current state of research on project teams connected across multiple domains within the project teams literature and directions for future research specific to AEC inter-organizational project teams.
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