{
  "date": "2026-11-01",
  "selection": "Seven seed candidates, not a verified impact ranking",
  "candidates": [
    {
      "authors": "Cui et al. (2018)",
      "title": "Review of studies on public\u2013private partnerships for infrastructure projects",
      "citation": "IJPM 36(5), 773\u2013794",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.ijproman.2018.03.004",
      "finding": "Publisher highlights report 754 articles and six topics. The seed\u2019s assumed 300\u2013500 corpus is not a basis for replication.",
      "evidence_scope": "Publisher metadata/highlights checked; complete analysis and underlying corpus not reproduced.",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263786317308372"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Locatelli et al. (2017; online 2016)",
      "title": "Corruption in public projects and megaprojects: There is an elephant in the room!",
      "citation": "IJPM 35, 252\u2013268",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.09.010",
      "finding": "Keep online and issue dates distinct. A comparative case study needs an explicit causal argument; adding a few projects is not enough to identify a corruption effect.",
      "evidence_scope": "Open publisher copy located; no independent case replication.",
      "url": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/105253/13/1-s2.0-S0263786316301090-main.pdf"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Banihashemi et al. (2017)",
      "title": "Critical success factors for integration of sustainability into construction project management practices in developing countries",
      "citation": "IJPM 35(6), 1103\u20131119",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.01.014",
      "finding": "The abstract specifies 16 interviews, 101 completed questionnaires and PLS-SEM. Those facts replace the seed\u2019s vague sample and proposed EFA/regression design.",
      "evidence_scope": "Institutional record and abstract checked; questionnaire/data availability remains unresolved.",
      "url": "https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/123392"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Oraee et al. (2017)",
      "title": "Collaboration in BIM-based construction networks: A bibliometric-qualitative literature review",
      "citation": "IJPM 35(7), 1288\u20131301",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.07.001",
      "finding": "A mixed-method review with a documented Scopus search and a 1,031 \u2192 271 \u2192 62 selection route. The first essai reconstructs its final published coding table.",
      "evidence_scope": "Final author-hosted publisher PDF read and table inspected; original retrieval and qualitative coding not rerun.",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.07.001"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Aarseth et al. (2017; online 2016)",
      "title": "Project sustainability strategies: A systematic literature review",
      "citation": "IJPM 35(6), 1071\u20131083",
      "doi": "10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.11.006",
      "finding": "The abstract gives five journals, pre-2016 research and 68 selected articles. The seed\u2019s approximate 300-paper corpus would test a different design.",
      "evidence_scope": "Publisher abstract and institutional metadata checked; complete coding not reconstructed.",
      "url": "https://researchportal.tuni.fi/en/publications/project-sustainability-strategies-a-systematic-literature-review/"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Wiewiora et al. (2014)",
      "title": "Interactions between organizational culture, trustworthiness, and mechanisms for inter-project knowledge sharing",
      "citation": "PMJ 45(2), 48\u201365",
      "doi": "10.1002/pmj.21407",
      "finding": "The publisher identifies a multiple-case study. Qualitative credibility and the chain from interviews to interpretation need their own test, not a generic missing-code score.",
      "evidence_scope": "Identity and study type checked against PMI; interview data not independently analysed.",
      "url": "https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/interactions-between-organizational-mechanisms-project-sharing-3778"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Locatelli et al. (2023)",
      "title": "A Manifesto for project management research",
      "citation": "European Management Review 20(1), 3\u201317",
      "doi": "10.1111/emre.12568",
      "finding": "A conceptual agenda with no new empirical dataset. Evaluate its argument and programme rather than treating missing raw data as a defect.",
      "evidence_scope": "Publisher source and data statement checked; conceptual merits not adjudicated here.",
      "url": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111%2Femre.12568"
    }
  ]
}