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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	112
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	79
3	European Journal of Operational Research	70
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	70
5	International Journal of Production Economics	69
6	Management Science	68
7	International Journal of Production Research	60
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	58
9	Technovation	54
10	IEEE Systems Journal	52
11	Annals of Operations Research	48
-	Safety Science	48
13	Production and Operations Management	44
14	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	43
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
16	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
-	International Journal of Systems Science	40
-	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	40
20	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
21	Production Planning & Control	32
22	Transportation Science	27
-	Journal of Operations Management	27
-	Operations Research	27
25	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	23
26	International Transactions in Operational Research	21
-	RAIRO-Operations Research	21
28	Systems & Control Letters	20
-	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	20
-	Informs Journal on Computing	20
31	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
32	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
33	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
-	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	17
-	Mathematical Programming	17
36	Engineering Optimization	16
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	16
38	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Operational Research	15
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	15
-	IISE Transactions	15
42	Optimization and Engineering	14
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	14
44	Central European Journal of Operations Research	13
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	13
-	Memetic Computing	13
-	Journal of Global Optimization	13
-	Optimization	13
49	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	12
-	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	12

-	Naval Research Logistics	12
52	Operations Research Letters	11
-	Systems Engineering	11
-	Optimization Letters	11
-	OR Spectrum	11
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	11
57	Informs Journal on Applied Analytics	10
-	Journal of Scheduling	10
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	10
-	Optimization Methods & Software	10
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	10
-	Journal of Quality Technology	10
-	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	10
-	Networks	10
65	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
-	Journal of Simulation	9
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability	9
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	9
71	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	8
-	Operations Research Perspectives	8
73	Discrete Optimization	7
-	Queueing Systems	7
-	TOP	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	7
78	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	6
-	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	6
-	International Journal of Technology Management	6
82	Engineering Economist	4
-	INFOR	4