This paper presents a comprehensive review of the studies associated with project scheduling. The study uses Sco-pus database as a primary search engine and covers 3370 records over the period 1963-2019. | A scientometrics survey on project scheduling Journal of Project Management 4 2019 165 176 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Journal of Project Management homepage A scientometrics survey on project scheduling M. R. Ghaelia and Soheil Sadi-Nezhadb a Department of Commerce and Business Administration New Westminster BC Canada b Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Waterloo Waterloo Canada CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history In project management a schedule is considered as a list a project s milestones activities Received October 28 2018 and deliverables normally with some start and finish time schedule which are estimated by Received in revised format No- some information incorporated in the project schedule including resource allocation budget vember 25 2018 task duration and linkages of dependencies and scheduled events. This paper presents a Accepted January 23 2019 Available online comprehensive review of the studies associated with project scheduling. The study uses Sco- January 23 2019 pus database as a primary search engine and covers 3370 records over the period 1963-2019. Keywords The records are statistically analyzed and categorized in terms of different criteria. Based on Project scheduling the survey quot decision support systems quot is the keyword which has carried the highest densities Highly cited followed by heuristics methods. Among the most cited articles papers published by re- Country searchers in Germany have received the highest citations 9084 followed by United States Scientometrics 7058 and Belgium with 4853 citations. 2019 by the authors licensee Growing Science Canada. 1. Introduction In project management a schedule is considered as list a project s milestones activities and deliv- erables normally with some start and finish time schedule which are estimated by some infor- mation incorporated in the project schedule including resource allocation budget task duration and linkages .
