Operations Research & Management Science: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	118
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	85
3	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	75
4	European Journal of Operational Research	73
5	International Journal of Production Economics	69
-	Management Science	69
7	International Journal of Production Research	62
8	Technovation	60
9	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	59
10	Safety Science	51
-	Annals of Operations Research	51
12	IEEE Systems Journal	49
13	Production and Operations Management	44
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
15	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	43
16	International Journal of Systems Science	41
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	41
18	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
20	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
21	Production Planning & Control	32
22	Journal of Operations Management	31
23	Operations Research	29
24	Transportation Science	26
25	Informs Journal on Computing	24
-	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	24
27	Systems & Control Letters	23
28	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	22
29	RAIRO-Operations Research	21
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	21
31	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	20
32	Mathematical Programming	18
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	18
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	18
-	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
36	IISE Transactions	17
37	Computational Optimization and Applications	16
38	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	15
-	Engineering Optimization	15
-	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	15
42	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	14
-	Naval Research Logistics	14
-	Operational Research	14
46	Optimization	13
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	13
-	Memetic Computing	13
-	Optimization and Engineering	13
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	13

51	Systems Engineering	12
52	Networks	11
-	Optimization Letters	11
-	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	11
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	11
-	Operations Research Letters	11
-	Optimization Methods & Software	11
-	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	11
59	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	10
-	OR Spectrum	10
-	Journal of Scheduling	10
62	Journal of Quality Technology	9
-	Operations Research Perspectives	9
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
-	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
-	Informs Journal on Applied Analytics	9
-	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	9
69	Journal of Simulation	8
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability	8
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	8
-	Discrete Optimization	8
73	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	7
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	7
-	International Journal of Technology Management	7
-	TOP	7
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
-	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	7
-	Queueing Systems	7
81	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
82	Engineering Economist	5
-	INFOR	5