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
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
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
Open access
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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
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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22 issues per year
Associated with:
- Journal of Business Analytics (2018 - current)
- Applied Operations and Analytics (2024 - current)
- Impact (2015 - current)
- Health Systems (2012 - current)
- European Journal of Information Systems (1991 - current)
- Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2003 - current)
- Journal of Simulation (2006 - current)
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