Project Management Journal

Papers
(The median citation count of Project Management Journal is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
How Empowerment Congruence Impacts Performance in Cross-Functional Project Teams: A Polynomial Regression Analysis83
Improvisation in Turbulent Environments: An Exploratory Case Study of a Rescue Projects Organization47
An Effective Earned Value Management System (EVMS) is a Team Sport39
Perceived Complexity of a Project’s Optimal Work Plan Influences Its Likelihood of Adoption by Project Managers36
The Impact of the Berlin Airport Project on the Business Performance of Its Owner Company36
Valuing Theory and Practice: Using a Portfolio Lens to Publish Research on Projects33
Using Social Media in Project Management: Behavioral, Cognitive, and Environmental Challenges31
Navigating Tensions to Create Value: An Institutional Logics Perspective on the Change Program and its Organizational Context31
The Editorial Review Board of Project Management Journal®28
Processes, Methods, Tools, Techniques, and Management Science for Project Management Journal®27
Governance in a Crisis and the Decision to Replace the Project Manager24
Prioritizing Stakeholders in Collaborative Research and Innovation Projects Toward Sustainability24
The Impact of Team Mindfulness on Project Team Performance: The Moderating Role of Effective Team Leadership23
Governance Through Trust: Community Engagement in an Australian City Rebuilding Precinct23
Understanding the Dark Side of Power in Project Dispute Negotiation Settlement23
Exploring the Connections Between Project Management Offices and Organizational Design22
Principles-Based Project Management: Where to Now?22
Running the Codification Gauntlet: Why Intent Alone Cannot Afford the Codification of Project Learnings21
Configurational Effects of Social Capital and Dynamic Capability on Project Resilience in Megaprojects20
Experimental Networks: A Missing Link in Facilitating Systemic Transitions Through Projects?18
How Power Influences Behavior in Projects: A Theory of Planned Behavior Perspective18
Project Management Journal® Special Issue on Project Behavior18
Performance Improvement in Megaprojects Through Project Network Characteristics and Transactive Memory Systems17
Facilitating Contextual Ambidexterity in a Global Operations Expansion Program16
Getting Past the Editor's Desk15
A Balancing Act of Leadership: The Practice of Shaping the Direction of a Project Portfolio15
How Agile Working Increases Innovative Work Behavior: The Role of Psychological Empowerment and Communication Media15
How a Despotic Project Manager Jeopardizes Project Success: The Role of Project Team Members’ Emotional Exhaustion and Emotional Intelligence15
Servant Leadership and Project Success: Unleashing the Missing Links of Work Engagement, Project Work Withdrawal, and Project Identification14
The Impacts on Interorganizational Project Coordination: A Multiple Case Study on Large Railway Projects14
Definitely Not a Walk in the Park: Coping with Competing Values in Complex Project Networks14
Seven Insights Into Becoming an Engaged Project Scholar14
The Temporality of Project Success: Vindeby, the World’s First Offshore Wind Farm13
Knowledge-Oriented Leadership, Team Cohesion, and Project Success: A Conditional Mechanism13
Extreme Schedule Strategies for Blitz Projects: Lessons from Specialty Field Hospitals During the COVID-19 Pandemic13
Effects of Authentic Leadership, Behavioral Integrity, and Project Governance on Project Performance12
Sifting Interactional Trust Through Institutions to Manage Trust in Project Teams: An Organizational Change Project12
What is Agile Project Management? Developing a New Definition Following a Systematic Literature Review12
The Role of Early Contractor Involvement in Facilitating Exploration and Exploitation of Innovations in Megaprojects12
The Expectations of Project Managers from Artificial Intelligence: A Delphi Study11
Alternative Approaches to Innovation Project Portfolio Governance11
Bright and Dark Spots in Project Studies: Continuing Efforts to Advance Theory Development and Debate11
The Dark Side of Projects: Dimensionality, Research Methods, and Agenda11
New Editors and a New Editor-in-Chief: Making the Manifesto a Reality11
Mixed-Methods Research for Project Management Journal®10
Narratives of Project Risk Management: From Scientific Rationality to the Discursive Nature of Identity Work10
The Impact of Temporal Reflexivity on Time Performance in NPD Projects: A Mixed-Methods Study10
A Typology of Project Types and Processes Offering Flexibility for the Project Manager10
Index of 2022 Project Management Journal® Articles and Authors10
How Did the Imperfection of an Innovation Project Come About? The Tension Between Legitimacy and Flexibility10
Revisiting the Principal–Agent Framework in the Context of Projects: Drawing Parallels with Corporate Governance9
The Formation Mechanism of Construction Safety Resilience in Railway Infrastructure Projects9
Investigating the Dynamics of Engineering Design Rework for a Complex Aircraft Development Project: Lessons Learned From a Soft Systems Thinking Lens9
Partnership in Recruitment Process Outsourcing Projects: The Outsourcing Firm Perspective9
Governance and Creativity in Project-Based Organizations: Archetypes and Agenda for Future Research9
Stepping into the Future of Project Studies: Establishing the PMJ College for Early Career Researchers in Project Studies9
Principles in Project Portfolio Management: Building Upon What We Know to Prepare for the Future8
The Effects of Megaproject Social Responsibility on Participating Organizations8
People as Our Most Important Asset: A Critical Exploration of Agility and Employee Commitment8
Studying the Management of Project Networks: From Structures to Practices?8
An Integrative Review of Project Portfolio Management Literature: Thematic Findings on Sustainability Mindset, Assessment, and Integration8
Collective Mindfulness: The Key to Organizational Resilience in Megaprojects8
Horizontal-Leader Identification in Construction Project Teams in China: How Guanxi Impacts Coworkers’ Perceived Justice and Turnover Intentions8
Developing a Multidimensional Conception of Project Evaluation to Improve Projects7
Ecologies of Temporary Organizations7
Beyond Failure and Success: A Process View on Imperfect Projects as Common Practice7
Modeling the Capabilities of High-Performing Project Management Offices in General Contracting Companies7
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in the Complex Environment of Megaprojects: Implications for Practitioners and Project Organizing Theory7
Managing Stability and Change in Interorganizational Projects: The Ambiguous Role of Digital Tools for Relational Dynamics7
Why Do Business Organizations Participate in Projects? Toward a Typology of Project Value Domains7
The Project Management Office’s Active Participation in a Digital Transformation: A Trajectory Full of Twists and Turns6
The Knowledge Acquisition Process in Interorganizational Projects: A Multiple-Case Study of Infrastructural Projects in Pakistan6
Lord of the Flies in Project-Based Organizations: The Role of Passive Leadership on Creativity and Project Success6
The Mandate of Project Management Offices Beyond Organizational Boundaries—Still A Blind Spot for Organizational Design?6
How Responsible Leadership Improves Stakeholder Collective Performance in Construction Projects: The Empirical Research from China6
Blockchain Technology for Projects: A Multicriteria Decision Matrix6
The Mediating Role of Project Citizenship Behavior in the Relationship Between Organizational Justice Dimensions and Project Success6
The Dark Side of Environmental Sustainability in Projects: Unraveling Greenwashing Behaviors6
A Taxonomy of Project Management Offices and Their Organizational Project Management Landscapes5
Retraction: “Empowering Users as a Principle of Construction Project Management”5
Coordinating Lifesaving Product Development Projects with no Preestablished Organizational Governance Structure5
Corrigendum to A Multilevel Governance Model for Interorganizational Project Networks5
Leadership and the Recovery of Troubled IT Projects5
ISO 21500 and the Sustainability Focused ANP-BOCR Framework for Subcontractor Selection in Megaprojects5
The Editorial Review Board of Project Management Journal®5
It Takes Two to Tango: The Interactive Effect of Project Portfolio Management Offices and Voice Behavior on Project Portfolio Management Quality and Business Success4
Time Flies When You are Having Fun: The Mediating Effects of Project Opportunity Management in the Relationship Between Project Leaders’ Self-Efficacy and Multidimensional Project Success4
Index of 2024 Project Management Journal® Articles and Authors4
Project Management Office Typologies, Types, and Functions: A Systematic Analysis of the Literature and Directions for Research4
Bridging Knowledge Management and Capabilities in Innovative Projects: An Integrative Framework4
Scale in Project Management: A Review and Research Agenda4
Index of 2023 Project Management Journal® Articles and Authors4
Toward a Deeper Understanding of Optimism Bias and Transport Project Cost Overrun4
Thank You to the Reviewers of Project Management Journal®4
Synchronous and Diachronic Timing: Insights into Managing Projects from Disaster Management and Fast-Response Organizations4
In Search of Project Management Principles4
Knowledge Entrainment in Large-Scale Transformation Projects: The Evidence-Based Strategy and the Innovation-Based Strategy4
Leveraging Organizational Social Capital in Construction Projects to Enhance Project Success: The Enabling Role of Transformational Leadership3
21st-Century General-Purpose Technologies and the Future of Project Management3
A Complexity Framework for Project Management Strategies3
Corrigendum to Volume 55, Issue 5, of the Project Management Journal®3
Identifying Subjective Perspectives on Managing Underground Risks at Schiphol Airport3
Modern Slavery in Projects: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda3
When and How Servant Leadership Leads to Megaproject Success: The Roles of Project Governance and Interpersonal Trust3
Validation of a New Project Resilience Scale in the IT Sector3
A Dynamic Capabilities Model of Innovation in Large Interfirm Projects3
Agile Project Management and Emotional Exhaustion: A Moderated Mediation Process3
Program Management Within Digital Transformation: The Emerging Importance Of Technology Architecture, Product Management, and Human Capital Transformation3
AI for Management and Organization Research: Examples and Reflections from Project Studies3
Unveiling Knowledge Hiding in Interorganizational Projects3
A Qualitative Analysis of Unethical Behaviors in Projects: Insight From Moral Psychology3
Revisiting Project Delivery Performance: Evidence from Swedish Transport Infrastructure3
Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent3
In Praise of Paradox Persistence: Evidence from the Sydney Opera House Project3
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