About this journal

Aims and scope

Established in 1961, the International Journal of Production Research (IJPR) is a leading journal in the areas of manufacturing, industrial engineering, operations research and management science.

The International Journal of Production Research aims to disseminate research on decision aid in manufacturing, operations management and logistics.

The International Journal of Production Research publishes convincing scientific results with clear, real-life applications as well as fundamental techniques developed in computer, decision and mathematical sciences to solve complex decision problems that arise in design, measurement, management and control of production and logistics systems.

The International Journal of Production Research covers the following topics:

  • Design of products and manufacturing processes
  • Production system and supply network engineering
  • Essential behaviour of production resources and systems
  • Production strategies and related economics issues
  • Production policy formulation and evaluation
  • Production planning and scheduling
  • Contribution of new technologies to production and logistics
  • Applications of production research to services

The journal seeks original research articles, discussion or technical notes, and review articles presenting the state of the art.

The journal operates a single-anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 1.8M annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 7.0 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 8.3 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 19.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 2.724 (2023) SNIP
  • 2.668 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 6 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 62 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 13 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 12% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:

Alexandre Dolgui, IMT Atlantique, France
La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler, - B.P. 20722, F-44307 Nantes Cedex 3

Associate Editors:

Adaptive Supply Networks, Resilience and Disruption Management
Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany

Automated Systems, Simulation-based Optimization and Reliability Issues
Zhibin Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Circular manufacturing, Remanufacturing, Sharing manufacturing, Inverse and Green logistics
Feng Chu, University of Paris-Saclay, France

Cloud Manufacturing, Cyber-physical and Sustainable Production Systems
Lihui Wang, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Cross-dock Scheduling, Bin Packing and Load Balancing
Feifeng Zheng, Donghua University, China

Design of Manufacturing/Assembly Systems
Manoj Kumar Tiwari, Indian institute of Management Mumbai, India

Forecasting and Inventory Management
Zied Babai, Kedge Business School, France

Game Theory Applications in Production Systems and Logistics
Salar Ghamat, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Global Supply Chain Management Strategy and New Product Development
Jayanth Jayaram, University of Oklahoma, USA

Healthcare and Services Engineering
Xiaolan Xie, Ecole des Mines de St Etienne, France

Human Factors in Production Research
Fabio Sgarbossa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Information Systems and Knowledge Management
Ali Siadat, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France

Locational Analysis, Warehousing and Transportation
Lixin Tang, Northeastern University, China

Manufacturing and Warehousing with Machine Learning
Hyun-Jung Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Optimization and Machine Learning in Manufacturing and Design
Rahul Rai, Clemson University, USA

Performance Analysis and Continuous Improvement
Jingshan Li, Tsinghua University, China

Prescriptive Analytics and Optimization Under Uncertainty
Yossiri Adulyasak, HEC Montreal, Canada

Pricing, Consumer Behavior and Supply Chain Modeling
Hubert Pun,Western University, Canada

Risk Analysis and Analytics
Desheng Dash Wu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Robust Planning and Scheduling in Smart Manufacturing and Supply Networks
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Belgium

Scheduling and Discrete Optimization
Frank Werner, University of Magdeburg, Germany

Supply Chain Management and Information Systems
S. C. Lenny Koh, University of Sheffield, UK

Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management
Kannan Govindan, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Editorial Board:

Georges Abdul-Nour, Université du Québec à Trois Rivières, Canada
Ali Allahverdi, Gazi University, Turkey
Ronald Askin, Arizona State University, USA
Miryam Barad, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Jonathan F. Bard, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Daria Battini, University of Padova, Italy
Saif Benjaafar, University of Minnesota, USA
Bopaya Bidanda, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Jennifer V. Blackhurst, University of Iowa, USA
Fayez Boctor, Université Laval, Canada
Felix T. S. Chan, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
Chengbin Chu, COSYS-GRETTIA, ESIEE Paris, France
Jason Choi, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
George Chryssolouris, University of Patras, Greece
Pius J. Egbelu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Hoda A. ElMaraghy, University of Windsor, Canada
Elsayed A. Elsayed, Rutgers State University, USA
Stanley B. Gershwin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Joseph Geunes, Texas A&M University, USA
Boaz Golany, Technion, Israel
Stephen C. Graves, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Robert W. Grubbström, Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden
Angappa Gunasekaran, California State University, USA
Surendra M. Gupta, Northeastern University, USA
Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Motor Company, USA
George Q. Huang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Phil Kaminsky, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dimitris Kiritsis, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Rainer Kolisch, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Yoram Koren, Michigan University, USA
René de Koster, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Panos Kouvelis, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Andrew Kusiak, University of Iowa, USA
Genrikh M.Levin, National Academy of Sciences, Belarus
Semyon M. Meerkov, University of Michigan, USA
Steven A. Melnyk, Michigan State University, USA
Stefan Minner, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Benoit Montreuil, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Reinaldo Morabito, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brasil
Dimitris Mourtzis, University of Patras, Greece
Rakesh Nagi, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Andrew Y. C. Nee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Shimon Y. Nof, Purdue University, USA
Chris O'Brien, Nottingham University, UK
Jan Olhager, Lund University, Sweden
José F. Oliveira, University of Porto, Portugal
David L. Olson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Chrissoleon H. T. Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Erwin Pesch, University of Siegen, Germany
Michael Pinedo, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA
Vittal Prabhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Joseph Sarkis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Tadeusz Sawik, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Suresh P. Sethi, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Amrik Sohal, Monash University, Australia
Mark Spearman, Factory Physics Inc., USA
Kathryn E. Stecke, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Katsuhiko Takahashi, Hiroshima University, Japan
Srinivas Talluri, Michigan State University, USA
Reha Uzsoy, NC State University, USA
Luk N. Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, France
Agostino Villa, Politechnico di Torino, Italy
Xun W. Xu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Shanlin Yang, Hefei University of Technology, China

Abstracting and indexing

The International Journal of Production Research is indexed in:

British Library Inside
Cabell’s Management Directory
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
CLOCKSS
DBLP: computer science bibliography
EBSCO Databases
Ei Compendex (Engineering Village)
Electronic Collections Online
Engineering Information Inc
INSEAD
INSPEC®
International Abstracts in Operations Research
ISI CompuMath Citation Index®
Current Contents®: Engineering, Computing and Technology
Science Citation Index®
Science Citation Index Expanded®
New Jour
OCLC ArticleFirst
Portico
Recent Advances in Manufacturing Database (RAM)
Scopus
Zentralblatt MATH/Mathematics Abstracts
Zetoc

Open access

International Journal of Production Research 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?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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