| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Project management: cost, time and quality, two best guesses and a phenomenon, its time to accept other success criteria | International Journal of Project Management | 1999 | 1,705 |
| 2 | The “real” success factors on projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2002 | 1,115 |
| 3 | Causes of delay in large construction projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2006 | 1,037 |
| 4 | Causes and effects of delays in Malaysian construction industry | International Journal of Project Management | 2007 | 856 |
| 5 | Application of the AHP in project management | International Journal of Project Management | 2001 | 807 |
| 6 | The project benefits of Building Information Modelling (BIM) | International Journal of Project Management | 2013 | 781 |
| 7 | The concept of project complexity—a review | International Journal of Project Management | 1996 | 765 |
| 8 | A new framework for determining critical success/failure factors in projects | International Journal of Project Management | 1996 | 743 |
| 9 | On the nature of the project as a temporary organization | International Journal of Project Management | 2003 | 667 |
| 10 | The allocation of risk in PPP/PFI construction projects in the UK | International Journal of Project Management | 2005 | 657 |
| 11 | Evaluating the risks of public private partnerships for infrastructure projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2002 | 652 |
| 12 | Directions for future research in project management: The main findings of a UK government-funded research network | International Journal of Project Management | 2006 | 630 |
| 13 | Understanding the key risks in construction projects in China | International Journal of Project Management | 2007 | 592 |
| 14 | Measurement of project success | International Journal of Project Management | 1988 | 577 |
| 15 | An integrated framework for project portfolio selection | International Journal of Project Management | 1999 | 574 |
| 16 | A comparative study of causes of time overruns in Hong Kong construction projects | International Journal of Project Management | 1997 | 563 |
| 17 | The role of project management in achieving project success | International Journal of Project Management | 1996 | 535 |
| 18 | Review of studies on the Critical Success Factors for Public–Private Partnership (PPP) projects from 1990 to 2013 | International Journal of Project Management | 2015 | 513 |
| 19 | Fuzzy MCDM approach for planning and design tenders selection in public office buildings | International Journal of Project Management | 2004 | 510 |
| 20 | Causes of delay and cost overruns in construction of groundwater projects in a developing countries; Ghana as a case study | International Journal of Project Management | 2003 | 502 |
| 21 | Criteria of project success: an exploratory re-examination | International Journal of Project Management | 1999 | 492 |
| 22 | Causes of construction delay: traditional contracts | International Journal of Project Management | 2002 | 490 |
| 23 | Fundamental uncertainties in projects and the scope of project management | International Journal of Project Management | 2006 | 480 |
| 24 | The need for new paradigms for complex projects | International Journal of Project Management | 1999 | 478 |
| 25 | Risk analysis and management in construction | International Journal of Project Management | 1997 | 477 |
| 26 | Analysing factors affecting delays in Indian construction projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2012 | 477 |
| 27 | Current practice in project management — an empirical study | International Journal of Project Management | 2002 | 458 |
| 28 | Factors affecting safety performance on construction sites | International Journal of Project Management | 1999 | 447 |
| 29 | Rethinking Project Management: Researching the actuality of projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2006 | 447 |
| 30 | Transforming project risk management into project uncertainty management | International Journal of Project Management | 2003 | 436 |
| 31 | Leadership competency profiles of successful project managers | International Journal of Project Management | 2010 | 436 |
| 32 | The Project Excellence Model®: linking success criteria and critical success factors | International Journal of Project Management | 2003 | 425 |
| 33 | Modelling global risk factors affecting construction cost performance | International Journal of Project Management | 2003 | 422 |
| 34 | Framing of project critical success factors by a systems model | International Journal of Project Management | 2006 | 417 |
| 35 | Beyond the ‘iron triangle’: Stakeholder perception of key performance indicators (KPIs) for large-scale public sector development projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2010 | 416 |
| 36 | Application of a fuzzy based decision making methodology to construction project risk assessment | International Journal of Project Management | 2007 | 408 |
| 37 | Stakeholder management studies in mega construction projects: A review and future directions | International Journal of Project Management | 2015 | 396 |
| 38 | Life cycle costing—Theory, information acquisition and application | International Journal of Project Management | 1997 | 393 |
| 39 | Trust in project relationships—inside the black box | International Journal of Project Management | 2004 | 393 |
| 40 | Matching the project manager’s leadership style to project type | International Journal of Project Management | 2007 | 384 |
| 41 | Goals-and-methods matrix: coping with projects with ill defined goals and/or methods of achieving them | International Journal of Project Management | 1993 | 383 |
| 42 | Cost escalation and schedule delays in road construction projects in Zambia | International Journal of Project Management | 2009 | 383 |
| 43 | Exploring the value of project management: Linking Project Management Performance and Project Success | International Journal of Project Management | 2014 | 378 |
| 44 | Evaluation of stakeholder influence in the implementation of construction projects | International Journal of Project Management | 2005 | 377 |
| 45 | Managing public–private megaprojects: Paradoxes, complexity, and project design | International Journal of Project Management | 2008 | 377 |
| 46 | Managing complex product development projects with design structure matrices and domain mapping matrices | International Journal of Project Management | 2007 | 368 |
| 47 | Creating value by delivering integrated solutions | International Journal of Project Management | 2005 | 361 |
| 48 | Does Agile work? — A quantitative analysis of agile project success | International Journal of Project Management | 2015 | 357 |
| 49 | Building theories of project management: past research, questions for the future | International Journal of Project Management | 2004 | 356 |
| 50 | A fuzzy approach to construction project risk assessment | International Journal of Project Management | 2011 | 354 |
