3. Previous reviews of IJPM
This investigation of IJPM related to publications during the last 30 years joins a list of other meta-analysis
reviews that have provided evidence of scope and scale of the discipline. Each of the four studies published in
IJPM has added depth to our understanding of Project Management as both a practice and discipline:
• 1995, Betts & Lansley
International Journal of Project Management: A Review of the First Ten Years
• 2000, Themistocleous & Wearne
Project Management Topic Coverage in Journals
• 2006, Crawford, Pollack & England
Uncovering the Trends in Project Management: Journal Emphases over the Last 10 Years
• 2007, Kolltveit, Karlsen & Grønhaug
Perspectives on Project Management
In all these reviews the authors report a decline of articles focused specifically on planning and control - an
original focus of the Journal. The decline in papers that discuss planning and control can be attributed to three