International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics (IJSS: O&L) is a world-leading journal in the exciting and demanding field of operations management and logistics.
The journal is dedicated to publishing high quality, rigorously reviewed, original papers that contribute to the methodology and practice in the fields of: operations research, transport and inventory management, EOQ models, operations planning and control, queuing theory, maintenance and reliability, resource management, scheduling, deterministic and stochastic modelling and optimization in logistics and operations, supply chain management.
Operations management and logistics is a multidisciplinary field that encloses the design, performance and management of systems for efficient operation of raw materials, in-process inventories, finished goods, human resources and related information or services. A wide range of new theories, methodologies and techniques are required to enable such systems. IJSS: Operations & Logistics is designed to be a leading hub for research in this rapidly-growing area of systems science.
Proposals for special issues in cutting-edge areas of operations management and logistical systems science are encouraged, and should be discussed with the Editor-in-Chief.
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous and rapid peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts.
Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editor-in-Chief, whose decision is final.
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Journal metrics
Usage
39K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
4.0 (2023) Impact Factor
Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
3.4 (2023) 5 year IF
7.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
1.743 (2023) SNIP
0.919 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
6 days avg. from submission to first
decision
81 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
12 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
17% 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.
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.
Editor-in-Chief Ioannis Konstantaras, Department of Business Administration, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Street, GR-540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece. email: [email protected]
Associate Editors Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas Barrón, Tec de Monterrey, Mexico Amulya Gurtu, Texas A&M University, USA Dmitry Ivanov, HWR Berlin, Germany Walid Nasr, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Dobrila Petrovic, Nottingham Trent University, UK Jafar Rezaei, TU Delft, Netherlands Shib Sankar. Sana, Kishore Bharati Bhagini Nivedita College, India Ali Akbar Shaikh, University of Burdwan, India Nagesh. Shukla, Griffith University, Australia Joaquin Sicilia-Rodriguez, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain Konstantina Skouri, University of Ioannina, Greece Ata Allah Taleizadeh, University of Tehran, Iran Miklos Telek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Yu-Chung Tsao, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan Simone Zanoni, University of Brescia, Italy
Editorial Board El-Houssaine Aghezzaf, Ghent University, Belgium Andreas C. Georgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece Woonghee Tim Huh, Sauder School of Business, Canada Mohamad Y. Jaber, Ryerson University, Canada Chandra K. Jaggi, University Of Delhi, India Mehdi Karimi-Nasab, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran Michael N. Katehakis, Rutgers Business School, USA Athanasios G. Lagodimos, University of Piraeus, Greece Xiangyong Li, Tongji University, China Chrissoleon T. Papadopoulos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Konstantinos E. Parsopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece
Founding Editor-in-Chief
Ioannis Konstantaras, University of Macedonia, Greece
Abstracting and indexing
The International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics is indexed in:
British Library CLOCKSS CrossRef Science Citation Index Expanded - Clarivate Analytics Google Scholar Microsoft Academic Portico SCImago Scopus Ulrich's Periodicals Directory Web of Science WorldCat Local (OCLC)
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