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This study argues that analysis of written content might be helpful to provideclues at a certain extent on the future directions of current research areas and theemergence of new study areas. In the scope of the study, the International Journalof Architectural Computing (IJAC) which has been a scientific platform coveringmany pioneer publications on education research in computer-aided architecturaldesign (CAAD) field was selected as source content. Although the size of thesource domain is limited, the analysis of abstracts and titles of 439 articlespublished in IJAC between 2003 and 2018 revealed promising results which canbe examined under four characteristics: ``constant'', ``emerging'', ``fading'' and``solidifying'' concepts. The tokens in the analysis process are words, phrases,topic nodes and links between topic nodes. The outcomes of this study mightcontribute to tracking the evolution of concepts their emergence or disusage indifferent time and contexts, and interrelations between different concepts.