A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society

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Table 1 JORS Special Issue topics

Year	Issue	Special issue paper topics	Paper num
2000	1	OR and strategy	6
2000	4	Simulation modelling	14
2000	10	Modelling and analysis in supply chain management systems	8
2000	12	OR education	10
2001	8	Conference	4
2001	9	Credit scoring	9
2002	2	The process of OR	4
2002	3	Performance management	8
2002	10	Programming	9
2003	2	Knowledge management	9
2003	9	Oganisational knowledge	3
2004	2	Intelligent management systems	5
2004	4	Defence	11
2004	7	Local search	6
2004	10	Data envelopment analysis	8
2005	2	Meeting health challenges with OR	11
2005	9	Credit scoring	11
2005	12	Data envelopment analysis	3
2006	7	Problem structuring methods	10
2007	2	Operational research in health	14
2007	5	Problem structuring methods II	10
2007	11	Risk-based methods for supply chain planning and management	6
2008	4	Intelligent management systems	9
2008	2	OR in government	13
2009	8	Data mining and operational research: Techniques and applications	9
2009	11	Data envelopment analysis: Theory and applications	10
SUM			220

Table 2 JORS article types frequency per year

	Theoretical	Case-oriented	Technical note	General	Review	Practice note	Total
2000	57	48	23	14	1	0	143
2001	62	42	28	8	0	0	140
2002	77	41	13	5	5	0	141
2003	80	28	11	13	1	0	133
2004	70	39	10	7	3	5	134
2005	74	49	13	4	1	2	143
2006	79	39	8	7	5	1	139
2007	81	50	11	14	3	0	159
2008	86	54	8	10	2	0	160
2009	89	66	5	5	0	2	167
Total	755	456	130	87	21	10	1459
Percent (%)	51.7	31.3	8.9	6.0	1.4	0.7	100.0

Figure 1 Proportion of published article types over the decade.

Table 3 List of the top 20 geographical locations of JORS authors

Country	Authors	Total %	Country	Contributions	Total %
UK	581	24.3	UK	923	26.9
US	422	17.6	US	547	16.0
Taiwan	150	6.2	Canada	238	6.9
Spain	136	5.7	China	206	6.0
Canada	128	5.4	Taiwan	206	6.0
China	121	5.1	Spain	165	4.8
Netherlands	82	3.4	Korea	111	3.2
Korea	65	2.7	Netherlands	101	2.9
Turkey	62	2.6	Turkey	89	2.6
Australia	55	2.3	Australia	79	2.3
Belgium	42	1.8	Belgium	53	1.5
Germany	42	1.8	Greece	53	1.5
France	41	1.7	France	48	1.4
Portugal	40	1.7	Germany	47	1.4
Greece	36	1.5	Brazil	46	1.3
India	36	1.5	Portugal	44	1.3
Brazil	32	1.3	India	42	1.2
Israel	26	1.1	Israel	41	1.2
Singapore	25	1.0	Singapore	37	1.1
New Zealand	23	1.0	New Zealand	34	1.0

Table 5 List of the top 20 universities that published in JORS (2000–2009)

Papers	Total	Authors	Total	Total contributions	Total
University of Southampton	52	University of Southampton	52	University of Southampton	96
University of Warwick	47	University of Lancaster	29	University of Warwick	56
University of Lancaster	35	National Chiao Tung University	26	University of Lancaster	48
University of Salford	31	University of Salford	24	University of Salford	43
Strathclyde University	23	University of Warwick	24	Strathclyde University	42
National Chiao Tung University	22	City Hong Kong University	21	National Chiao Tung University	41
Aston University	20	Brunel University	19	Brunel University	32
City Hong Kong University	20	Erasmus Rotterdam University	18	City Hong Kong University	31
University of Edinburgh	19	Imperial College	18	University of Edinburgh	30
Hong Kong Polytechnic University	19	University of Katholiekeit Leuven	18	University of Hong Kong Polytechnic	30
University of Kent	18	Eindhoven University of Technology	17	Imperial College	29
University of Toronto	17	National Singapore University	17	Aston University	28
Brunel University	16	University of Kent	16	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	28
Imperial College	16	University of Nottingham	16	University of Kent	27
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	16	Hanyang University	15	University of Nottingham	27
London School of Economics	14	University of Hong Kong Polytechnic	15	University of Toronto	27
University of Manchester	14	Middle East Technical University	15	Erasmus Rotterdam University	23
National Singapore University	14	University of Sheffield	15	Middle East Technical University	23
HEC Montreal	13	London School of Economics	14	HEC Montreal	23
University of Bath	12	University of Manchester	14	Hanyang University	22

Table 4 Classification of the authors’ home departments/schools under 10 broad categories

Academic departments	Total	Total %
Business & Management	525	41.5
Engineering	241	19.0
OR	140	11.1
Maths	111	8.8
Economics	76	6.0
Computer & IS	72	5.7
Statistics	28	2.2
Health	23	1.8
Social sciences	10	0.8
Other	40	3.2
SUM	1266	100.0

Table 11 Areas/sectors in which OR techniques are frequently applied by JORS authors

Application	Frequency	Percentage (%)
Methodology	207	11.2
Transportation-shipping/transport air/rail/road/sea	111	6.0
Production/manufacturing	111	6.0
Flow/job shop, machine scheduling	98	5.3
Health care/Health service/hospitals	88	4.8
Inventory	87	4.7
Supply chain	71	3.8
Military/defence	57	3.1
Logistics	49	2.7
Education	32	1.7
OR practice	31	1.7
Recreation/sports	31	1.7
Distribution	30	1.6
Information systems/information technology	29	1.6
Maintenance	29	1.6
Project management	28	1.5
Finance	26	1.4
Credit scoring	25	1.4
Facilities/equipment planning	25	1.4
Location	24	1.3
Strategic planning	23	1.2
Banking	22	1.2
Organisational studies	22	1.2
Agriculture/food	21	1.1
Telecommunications	21	1.1
Other	552	28.9
Total	1851	100.0

Table 6 List of the top 10 organisations that published in JORS (2000–2009)

Papers	Total	Authors	Total	Total contributions	Total
Defence Science and Technology Laboratories	10	Defence Science and Technology Laboratories	10	Defence Science and Technology Laboratories	15
Department of Health	5	Department of Health	10	Department of Health	12
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences	5	CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences	6	CSIRO	7
IBM	4	IBM	6	Defence Science and Technology Organisation	7
Air Force Research Laboratory	3	Institute of Environmental Science and Research ESR	6	Institute of Environmental Science and Research ESR	7
National Air Traffic Services	3	Operational Analysis Branch Headquarters ARRC British Forces	6	Global S Consulting Company	7
Price water house Coopers	3	Productivity Apex Inc	6	IBM	6
RAND Corporation	3	RAND Corporation	6	Operational Analysis Branch Headquarters ARRC British Forces	6
Center for Military Analyses	2	Defence Science and Technology Organisation	5	Productivity Apex Inc	6
Corp GRUPPA	2	Global S Consulting Company	5	RAND Corporation
Other	210	Other	234	Other	256
Total	250	Total	300	Total	329

Table 7 List of the top 18 most productive authors with seven or more publications, their current affiliations and the order of authorship

Author	University	Country	Total papers	First author	Co-author
Laporte G	HEC Montréal	Canada	22	2	20
Thomas LC	University of Southampton	UK	12	4	8
Kim YD	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Korea	10	0	10
Berman O	University of Toronto	Canada	9	8	1
Lim A	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	China	9	4	5
Mingers J	University of Warwick	UK	9	6	3
Drezner Z	California State University–Fullerton	US	8	0	8
Gupta JND	University of Alabama in Huntsville	US	8	3	5
Ackermann F	University of Strathclyde	UK	7	1	6
Brailsford SC	University of Southampton	UK	7	1	6
Eden C	University of Strathclyde	UK	7	3	4
Howick S	University of Strathclyde	UK	7	4	3
Ormerod RJ	University of Warwick	UK	7	6	1
Podinovski VV	University of Warwick	UK	7	7	0
Robinson S	University of Warwick	UK	7	6	1
Sarker BR	Louisiana State University	US	7	2	5
Shaw D	Aston University	UK	7	5	2
Silver EA	University of Calgary	Canda	7	2	5

Table 8 List of the top 16 most cited JORS papers—using Google Scholar database for citation analysis

Year	Issue	Title	First author	Total citations	Average citations
2001	8	A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows	Cordeau JF	188	20.9
2002	5	A guide to vehicle routing heuristics	Cordeau JF	145	18.1
2003	6	Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring	Baesens B	96	13.7
2003	5	Performance metrics in supply chain management	Kleijnen JPC	88	12.6
2002	8	On the economic order quantity under conditions of permissible delay in payments	Teng JT	80	10.0
2000	5	Looking in the wrong place for health-care improvements: A system dynamics study of an accident and emergency department	Lane DC	70	7.0
2000	11	The contribution of critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for OR/MS and systems	Mingers J	62	6.2
2002	4	The use of multimethodology in practice—results of a survey of practitioners	Munro I	57	7.1
2002	5	On the nature of OR: Taking stock	Ormerod RJ	57	7.1
2003	4	Beyond methodology choice: Critical systems thinking as critically systemic discourse	Ulrich W	56	8.0
2004	8	Application-driven sequential designs for simulation experiments: Kriging metamodelling	Kleijnen JPC	56	9.3
2001	10	Parallel machine scheduling with a learning effect	Mosheiov G	55	6.1
2002	1	Modelling for the planning and management of bed capacities in hospitals	Harper PR	53	6.6
2001	3	Nonlinear goal programming using multi-objective genetic algorithms	Deb K	52	5.8
2002	8	Customer knowledge management	GarcíaMurillo M	52	6.5
2002	4	Heuristic solutions to the problem of routing school buses with multiple objectives	Corberán A	51	6.4

Table 10 OR techniques that are most frequently researched/practised by JORS authors

OR technique	Frequency	Percentage (%)
Heuristics	157	6.6
Scheduling	151	6.4
Data envelopment analysis	125	5.3
Simulation	108	4.6
Optimisation	95	4.0
Programming-Integer	76	3.2
Mathematical modelling	55	2.3
Vehicle routing	51	2.2
Inventory theory	47	2.0
Programming-Linear	46	1.9
Tabu search	45	1.9
Decision analysis	43	1.8
Forecasting	42	1.8
Problem structuring	40	1.7
Location-Allocation modelling	34	1.4
Statistics	34	1.4
System dynamics	34	1.4
Regression	31	1.3
Simulation discrete-event	31	1.3
Soft OR/SSM	31	1.3
Programming-Dynamic	29	1.2
Decision support systems	28	1.2
Risk analysis	28	1.2
Genetic algorithms	26	1.1
Markov processes	26	1.1

Table 9 List of the top 16 most cited JORS papers—using ISI Web of Science database for citation analysis

Year	Issue	Title	First author	Total citations	Average citations
2001	8	A unified tabu search heuristic for vehicle routing problems with time windows	Cordeau JF	85	9.4
2002	5	A guide to vehicle routing heuristics	Cordeau JF	78	9.8
2003	6	Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring	Baesens B	71	7.9
2002	8	On the economic order quantity under conditions of permissible delay in payments	Teng JT	57	7.1
2000	3	A fuzzy programming method for deriving priorities in the analytic hierarchy process	Mikhailov L	40	4.0
2001	10	Parallel machine scheduling with a learning effect	Mosheiov G	36	4.0
2000	4	Ordinal optimisation and simulation	Ho YC	30	3.0
2004	12	A review and classification of heuristics for permutation flow-shop scheduling with makespan objective	Framinan JM	29	4.8
2000	3	The role of feedback dynamics in disruption and delay on the nature of disruption and delay (D & D) in major projects	Eden C	29	2.9
2003	9	Optimal retailer's ordering policies in the EOQ model under trade credit financing	Huang YF	28	4.0
2001	2	New block properties for the permutation flow shop problem with application in tabu search	Grabowski J	28	3.1
2000	11	The contribution of critical realism as an underpinning philosophy for OR/MS and systems	Mingers J	28	2.8
2003	4	Beyond methodology choice: Critical systems thinking as critically systemic discourse	Ulrich W	27	3.9
2002	8	Comparing an ACO algorithm with other heuristics for the single machine scheduling problem with sequence-dependent setup times	Gagne C	27	3.4
2000	10	Performance analysis and design of supply chains: A Petri net approach	Viswanadham N	27	2.7
2003	8	Short-term electricity demand forecasting using double seasonal exponential smoothing	Taylor JW	26	3.7