at faculty publications in their pre-defined top 40 journals (FT40). One can argue that the FT40 list is a specific list solely used to rank business schools in the world and may not represent management research properly, and that publication of a paper in a journal on any specific list may not be a strong indicator of relevance and academic quality. However, we thought that reviewing articles published in journals on the FT40 list will give us a firmer ground in studying PM research from the perspective of allied disci-plines, rather than us trying to define top journals in their respective fields in management. So, we used the FT40 list as a starting point.
We reviewed the journals on the FT40 list and eliminated 24 journals with very limited relevance to PM, leaving us with 16 journals. We observed that several journals on that list are published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Aca¬emy of Management (AOM). So, we added the practice-oriented journal Interfaces to enhance representation of journals published by INFORMS. We reviewed AOM Learning & Education (AMLE) for possible addition to our list for completeness of journals published by AOM, although it is not on the FT40 list. However, this journal which started in 2002 had no papers related to project management as of the summer of 2007 and we did not add it to our list. We reviewed journals published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and added to our list IEEE Transactions of Engineering Management which is one of the most prestigious journals in the engineering management field and has been published since 1954. Thus, we ended up with a list of 18 journals: 16 relevant journals from the FT40 list, one additional journal from INFORMS, and one additional journal from IEEE.