About the Journal

The Journal of Project Science is an independent, peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal published by the Project Science Institute. It is dedicated to establishing project delivery as an evidence-based scientific discipline, publishing research on how human cognition and systems interact to transform intention into structured outcomes under constraints.

The journal welcomes empirical studies, registered reports, replication studies, case and practitioner research, theoretical contributions, and brief reports. It evaluates manuscripts on the importance of the research question, the appropriateness and rigor of the methodology, the transparency of reporting, and the soundness of inferences, and not on the direction of findings, statistical significance, or consistency with prior literature.

Null-results commitment. Manuscripts that find no effect, fail to confirm a hypothesis, contradict published findings, or produce inconclusive results are evaluated on identical criteria to manuscripts reporting positive effects. The journal actively welcomes methodologically sound studies that produced null findings.

Peer review. The journal operates double-anonymous peer review, with each submission assessed by at least two independent reviewers with relevant expertise.

Open access. The journal is diamond open access: no submission fees, no article processing charges, and no paywalls. All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, and authors retain copyright.