Recently, contour integral-based methods have been actively studied for solving interior eigenvalue problems that find all eigenvalues located in a certain region and their corresponding eigenvectors. In this paper, we reconsider the algorithms of the five typical contour integral-based eigensolvers from the viewpoint of projection methods, and then map the relationships among these methods. From the analysis, we conclude that all contour integral-based eigensolvers can be regarded as projection methods and can be categorized based on their subspace used, the type of projection and the problem to which they are applied implicitly.