Project Management Journal®

The Project Management Journal’s mission is to shape thinking on the need for and impact of managing projects by publishing cutting-edge research that advances theory and evidence-based practice. Access to Project Management Journal is a benefit of PMI membership.

Overview

The Project Management Journal seeks to provide knowledge and explore emerging topics to support PMI members, the wider project profession and help enable project success.

Projects represent a growing proportion of human activity in large, small, private, and public organizations. They are the engine of tomorrow’s innovation, value creation, and strategic change.

Project Management Journal addresses project challenges and opportunities by encouraging the development and application of novel theories, concepts, frameworks, research methods, designs, and teaching case studies. It covers:

  • Projects, programs, project portfolios
  • Megaprojects
  • Project-based organizations, project networks, project business
  • The projectification of society

And, it serves audiences in academia and the field:

  • Academics and researchers who publish in the journal, as well as cite it in their research
  • Students who use the journal in their studies
  • Project practitioners who inform project practices through the journal’s research, webinars, videos, summaries, and articles, including Thoughtlets

Impact Factor

5.1

Current Impact Factor

5.5

5-Year Impact Factor

.99

Journal Citation Indicator

428,972

Readers

In the Current Issue

  • Project Management and Innovation: On Projectification, Lineages, and Beyond
    Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini, Sylvain Lenfle, and Jonas Söderlund
  • An Action Theory of the Project
    Graham M. Winch
  • A Typology of Project Types and Processes Offering Flexibility for the Project Manager
    Christoph Loch, Mengtong Jiang, and Haijian
  • Managing Systemic Innovation Programs: The Case of Additive Manufacturing
    Miia Martinsuo
  • Experimental Networks: A Missing Link in Facilitating Systemic Transitions Through Projects?
    Maxim Miterev and Mats Engwall
  • Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent
    Yunchen Sun and Fredrik Tell
  • The Long Tail of Conflicts in Innovation Projects: Conflicts and Their Impact on Strategic Renewal
    Giacomo Cattaneo, Andrea Carugati, Lars Frederiksen, and Fredrik Hacklin
  • Bridging Project Management and Design Thinking: Evidence From Digital Transformation Projects
    Margaux Grall, Florence Charue-Duboc, and Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini
  • A System of Management Principles to Improve the Performance of Innovative Project Portfolios
    Hans Georg Gemünden and Alexander Kock
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