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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	114
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	82
3	European Journal of Operational Research	71
4	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	70
5	Management Science	69
6	International Journal of Production Economics	68
7	International Journal of Production Research	61
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	58
9	Technovation	57
10	IEEE Systems Journal	51
11	Safety Science	50
12	Annals of Operations Research	48
13	Production and Operations Management	44
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
15	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	42
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	42
17	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
-	International Journal of Systems Science	40
20	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
21	Production Planning & Control	33
22	Journal of Operations Management	29
23	Operations Research	28
24	Transportation Science	27
25	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	24
26	International Transactions in Operational Research	22
-	Systems & Control Letters	22
-	Informs Journal on Computing	22
29	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	21
-	RAIRO-Operations Research	21
31	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	19
-	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	19
33	Journal of the Operational Research Society	17
-	Mathematical Programming	17
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	17
36	Engineering Optimization	16
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	16
-	IISE Transactions	16
39	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	15
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	15
42	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
-	Naval Research Logistics	14
-	Operational Research	14
-	Optimization and Engineering	14
-	Optimization	14
47	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	13
-	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	13
-	Memetic Computing	13
-	Journal of Global Optimization	13

-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	13
52	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	12
53	Journal of Scheduling	11
-	Operations Research Letters	11
-	Systems Engineering	11
56	Informs Journal on Applied Analytics	10
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	10
-	Optimization Methods & Software	10
-	Journal of Quality Technology	10
-	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	10
-	Networks	10
-	Optimization Letters	10
-	OR Spectrum	10
64	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
-	Operations Research Perspectives	9
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	9
68	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	8
-	Discrete Optimization	8
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	8
-	Journal of Simulation	8
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability	8
73	Queueing Systems	7
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	7
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	7
-	International Journal of Technology Management	7
-	TOP	7
80	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	6
-	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
82	Engineering Economist	5
-	INFOR	5