About this journal

Aims and scope

JORS is published 12 times a year and is the flagship journal of the Operational Research Society. It is the aim of JORS to present papers which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of OR. However, since OR is primarily an applied science, it is a major objective of the journal to attract and publish accounts of good, practical case studies. Consequently, papers illustrating applications of OR to real problems are especially welcome.

  • Real applications of OR - forecasting, inventory, investment, location, logistics, maintenance, marketing, packing, purchasing, production, project management, reliability and scheduling
  • A wide variety of environments - community OR, education, energy, finance, government, health services, manufacturing industries, mining, sports, and transportation
  • Technical approaches - decision support systems, expert systems, heuristics, networks, mathematical programming, multicriteria decision methods, problems structuring methods, queues, and simulation

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 281K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 2.7 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 3.0 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 6.8 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.313 (2023) SNIP
  • 1.045 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 19 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 101 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 16 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 12% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editors-in-Chief
Martin H. Kunc, University of Southampton, UK ( email)
Said Salhi, University of Kent, UK ( email)
Zhe George Zhang, Western Washington University, USA and Simon Fraser University, Canada ( email)

For queries about manuscripts in review, please contact the Editorial Office: [email protected] 

Associate Editors
Emel Aktas, Cranfield University, UK
Thomas Archibald, University of Edinburgh, UK
Mette Asmild, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Vincent Charles, CENTRUM GBS, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru
Bo Chen, University of Warwick, UK
Jenny Chen, Dalhousie University, Canada
Salvatore Corrente, University of Catania, Italy
Dursun Delen, Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey
Long Gao, University of California, Riverside, USA
Ahmed Ghoniem, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Elvan Gokalp, University of Birmingham, UK
Ping Ji, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, UAE
Dylan Jones, University of Portsmouth, UK
Bahar Yetis Kara, Bilkent University, Turkey
Gilbert Laporte, HEC Montreal, Canada
Janny Leung, University of Macau, Macau
Haitao Li, University of Missouri at St Louis, USA
Lingfei Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Asil Oztekin, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Alberto Paucar Caceres, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Blanca Perez Gladish, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
Rong Qu, University of Nottingham, UK
Dolores Romero Morales, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Cardiff University, UK
Alper Sen, Bilkent University, Turkey
Stephen Shum, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sharareh Taghipour, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
Antuela Tako, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Jinting Wang, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Zeshui Xu, Sichuan University, China
Georges Zaccour, GERAD – HEC Montréal, Canada
Xuan Zhao, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Joe Zhu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

International Advisory Board
Jonathan F. Bard, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Val Belton, University of Strathclyde, UK
Sally Brailsford, University of Southampton, UK
Emilio Carrizosa Priego, University of Sevilla, Spain
Goutam Dutta, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India
Kevin Glazebrook, University of Lancaster, UK
Peter W. Glynn, Stanford University, USA
Steve C. Graves, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Linda V. Green, Columbia University, USA
Hans Ittmann, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Martine Labbe, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Manuel Laguna, University of Colorado, USA
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Sung Joo Park, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Mahmut Parlar, McMaster University, Canada
Michael Pinedo, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Christian Prins, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Elise Del Rosario, Operations Research Society of the Philippines, The Philippines
Francisco Saldanha da Gama, University of Sheffield, UK
Zilla Sinuany-Stern, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
M. Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia, Italy
Lixin Tang, Northeastern University, China
Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy
Andrés Weintraub, University of Chile, Chile
Lu Zhen, Shanghai University, China

Past Editors-in-Chief
John Boylan [2020-2023]
Tom Archibald [2011-2019]
Jonathan Crook [2011-2019]
John Wilson [2002-2010]
Terry Williams [2002-2010]
John Ranyard [1997-2001]
Graham Rand [1991-1996]
John Hough [1985-1990]
Peter Amiry [1981-1984]
K. Brian Haley [1972-1980]
Ray Cuninghame-Green [1969-1971]
John Lawrence [1964-1968]
Roger Eddison [1950-1963]
Max Davies [1950-1958]

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Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of the Operational Research Society is indexed in:

Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) Journal Quality List
Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Academic Journal Guide
Current Contents Engineering, Computing & Technology
Current Contents Social and Behavioral Sciences
dblp | computer science bibliography
Ei Compendex (Engineering Village)
Essential Science Indicators
Federation of Management Societies of China Journal Rating Guide
SCImago
Scopus
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Web of Science

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Society information

The Operational Research Society (The OR Society) supports the advancement of Operational Research. knowledge and education. From business and government to health care systems and education, The OR Society strives to be a diverse and vibrant community working towards a future improved by rigorous analysis and better, evidence-based, decision-making.

Members of The OR Society benefit from complimentary online access to The OR Society journals. Members also receive online access to a selection of other Taylor & Francis and Routledge journal titles

The OR Society publishes 6 journals and a magazine:

Journal of the Operational Research Society

European Journal of Information Systems

Knowledge Management Research & Practice

Journal of Simulation

Health Systems

Journal of Business Analytics

Impact (Magazine)

To explore the whole OR Society publications portfolio and additional member access to a variety of other Taylor & Francis and Routledge titles visit The OR Society publication page.

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