About this journal
Aims and scope
We support authors whose research explores:
• Linear and nonlinear programming
• Variational analysis
• Vector and set-valued optimization
• Theoretical Investigations
• Numerical methods
• Application-oriented papers that contain new mathematical contributions
Authors wishing to submit to Optimization should review the Instructions for Authors. Further guidance can be found on our Author Services website.
Authors are strongly advised to carefully check that their work falls within the scope of Optimization before submitting, as all submissions that are not within scope will be immediately rejected without peer review.
Peer Review Policy
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor. If found suitable for further consideration, papers are subject to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is single anonymized.
Submissions can be made online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gopt.
Publishing Ethics
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The Journal has an appeals and complaints policy which can be viewed here: https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/peer-review-appeals-and-complaints-from-authors/.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 84K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.6 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.9 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.262 (2023) SNIP
- 0.699 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 26 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 128 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 11 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 21% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief:
Prof Dr Christiane Tammer - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Managing Editors
Dr Elisabeth Köbis - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dr Markus Köbis - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Editorial Board
Prof. Dr Samir Adly - Université de Limoges, France
Prof. Dr Didier Aussel - Universitie de Perpignan, France
Prof. Dr Adil M. Bagirov - Federation University, Australia
Dr Christian Bargetz - Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Dr Matus Benko - Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Prof. Dr Eduardo Casas - Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Prof. Dr Katarína Cechlàrovà - P. J. Safarik University, Slovakia
Prof. Dr Stephan Dempe - TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Prof. Dr Marius Durea - Alexandru Ioan. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Prof. Dr Gabriele Eichfelder - Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Dr sc Rosalind Elster - Halle (Saale), Germany
Prof. Dr Shu-Cherng Fang - North Carolina State University, USA
Prof. Dr Andreas Fischer - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Prof. Dr Fabián Flores-Bazán - Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
Prof. Dr Matthias Gerdts - Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Prof. Dr Franco Giannessi - Università di Pisa, Italy
Prof. Dr Sorin-Mihai Grad - ENSTA Paris, France
Prof. Dr Wilfried Grecksch - Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Prof. Dr César Gutiérrez Vaquero - Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Prof. Dr. Mounir Haddou – National Institute of Applied Sciences of Rennes, France
Prof. Dr Nicolas Hadjisavvas - University of the Aegean, Greece
Prof. Dr René Henrion - Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics Berlin, Germany
Prof. Elvira Hernandez - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Prof. Dr Refail Kasimbeyli - Eskisehir Technical University, Turkey
Prof. Dr Akhtar A. Khan - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Prof. Pham Duy Khanh - University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Prof. Dr Phan Quoc Khanh - International University, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
Prof. Dr Alexander Kruger - Federation University Ballarat, Australia
Prof. Dr. Hannelore Lisei - Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Prof. Dr Andreas Löhne - Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany
Prof. Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Dr Boris Mordukhovich - Wayne State University, USA
Prof. Dr. Mau Nam Nguyen – Portland State University, USA
Prof. Eladio Ocaña - IMCA & FC, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Peru
Prof. Dr Hoang Xuan Phu - Institute of Mathematics, Vietnam
Prof. Cornel Pintea - Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Prof. Dr Fabio Raciti - University of Catania, Italy
Prof. Dr Simeon Reich - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Prof. Dr Jan-Joachim Rückmann - University of Bergen, Norway
Prof. Dr Stefan Ruzika - TechnischeUniversität Kaiserslautern, Germany
Miguel Sama - National Distance Education University, Madrid (UNED)
Prof. Dr Vladimir Shikhman - Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Francisco J. Silva – Université de Limoges, France
Prof. Dr. Radu Strugariu - Technical University of Iaşi, Romania
Prof. Dr Wim van Ackooij - Électricité de France (EDF), France
Prof. Dr Xiaolong Qin - Hangzhou Normal University, China
Prof. Dr Gerhard Wilhelm Weber - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Prof. Dr Hong-Kun Xu - Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zaslavski - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Editors-in-Chief
Karl-Heinz Elster (1977-1996)
Diethard Pallaschke (1996-2005)
Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz (2006-2012)
Abstracting and indexing
Optimization is abstracted/indexed in:
ABI/Inform
Association of University Professors for Business Administration (VHB)
Australian Research Council ERA list 2015
Baidu Scholar
British Library Inside
CABS Academic Journal Guide
Clarivate Analytics: Science Citation Index Expanded™
CNKI Scholar
CNPIEC
CnpLINKer
Current Index to Statistics
Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI)
DTU Findit
E-lib Breman
EBSCO Databases
Electronic Journals Library (EZB)
Finnish Publication Forum (Julkaisufoorumi)
Genamics JournalSeek
Google Scholar
International Abstracts in Operations Research
JournalTOCs
MathSciNet
Microsoft Academic
Naver Academic
New Jour
NHN
Norwegian Register of Scientific Journals and Publishers
Portico
ProQuest Advanced Technologies and Aerospace
ProQuest Computer and Information Systems Abstracts
ProQuest Technology Collection
Publons
SciBase
Scopus™ - click here for current CiteScore
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
Web of Science
WorldCat Local (OCLC)
zbMath
Zetoc
Open access
Optimization is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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News, offers and calls for papers
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Calls for papers
Society information
Members of the following groups can receive an individual online only subscription to Optimization at a special society member rate. Please see the pricing or subscribe page for details.
- EUROPT
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
- Mathematical Programming Society (MPS)
- Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group (POP)
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
- Operational Research Society of Singapore (ORSS)
- Working Group on Generalized Convexity (WGGC)
12 issues per year
Currently known as:
- Optimization: A Journal of Mathematical Programming and Operations Research (1985 - current)
Formerly known as
- Mathematische Operationsforschung und Statistik. Series Optimization (1977 - 1984)
Formerly part of
- Mathematische Operationsforschung und Statistik (1970 - 1976)
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