--- title: "Project Leadership and Society: impact and top papers" description: "Project Leadership and Society has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.30 and an h-index of 31 in OpenAlex, #30 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 34 papers, and its papers received 1,087 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Project Leadership and Society has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.30 and an h-index of 31 in OpenAlex, #30 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Project Leadership and Society - 0 papers in the last 7 days - category: Management - publisher: Elsevier BV - ISSN 2666-7215 - Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/project-leadership-and-society - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2666-7215 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S4210237622 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Management: [Management dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) · [Management journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Top management institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/management.md) · [Top funders of management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/management.md) · [Companies in management research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/management.md) · [Open access in management journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/management.md) · [Top Management conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/management.md) ## Key findings - Project Leadership and Society has a 2-year mean citedness of 6.30 and an h-index of 31 in OpenAlex, #30 of 56 tracked management journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 34 papers, and its papers received 1,087 citations. - Project Leadership and Society published 6 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #178 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Tampere University (1), University of Tampere (1) and Alma Mater Europaea (1). - Countries: Finland (1), Slovenia (1) and Australia (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Project Leadership and Society published 6 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “project governance” (2), “AI adoption drivers” (1) and “IT project management” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 6.30 | | h-index | 31 | | i10-index | 106 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 236 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 3,872 | | Rank among tracked management journals | [#30 of 56](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 40 | 1,034 | | 2025 | 34 | 1,087 | | 2024 | 57 | 843 | | 2023 | 31 | 584 | | 2022 | 36 | 254 | | 2021 | 33 | 69 | | 2020 | 5 | 1 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/project-leadership-and-society ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | project governance | 2 | | 2 | AI adoption drivers | 1 | | 3 | IT project management | 1 | | 4 | Scrum | 1 | | 5 | artificial intelligence in project management | 1 | | 6 | board decision-making | 1 | | 7 | board governance | 1 | | 8 | citizen participation | 1 | | 9 | cost control | 1 | | 10 | decision support | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-23 | [Better stakeholder participation in urban development projects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100250) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Sebastian Toukola | Tampere University; University of Tampere | | 2026-10-21 | [Human-AI orchestration in project business an empirical study of AI adoption, competence recombination, and perceived role change among German project professionals](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100249) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Reinhard Wagner, Domagoj Mihaljević | Alma Mater Europaea | | 2026-10-20 | [Homeostatic governance: A grounded theory study of board engagement with projects](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100247) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Chris Lawler, Catherine P. Killen, Shankar Sankaran | University of Technology Sydney | | 2026-10-19 | [Risk management effectiveness in information systems projects: A multiple-case study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100248) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Tony Deral Menezes, Maryati Mohd Yusof, Dian Indrayani Jambari | | | 2026-10-17 | [AI-enabled project monitoring and control: Toward a configurational framework for human–AI collaboration in project leadership](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100245) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Erik Humberto Araya Aliaga, Adeline Abou-Ali, Costanza Mariani et al. | International University of Monaco; Politecnico di Milano | | 2026-10-14 | [Exploring the role of scrum in time management competence: A mixed-methods study in engineering project-based learning](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plas.2026.100244) | [Project Leadership and Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/project-leadership-and-society.md) | Laura Yulieth Casas López, Fanny Andrea Rojas Flórez, Jhon Jairo Ramírez-Echeverry | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. 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