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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	126
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	92
3	European Journal of Operational Research	76
4	Management Science	73
5	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	71
6	Technovation	66
-	International Journal of Production Economics	66
8	International Journal of Production Research	62
-	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	62
10	IEEE Systems Journal	50
11	Safety Science	48
12	Annals of Operations Research	47
13	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	46
14	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	45
15	Production and Operations Management	43
-	Decision Support Systems	43
17	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	41
18	Computers & Operations Research	40
19	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	37
20	International Journal of Systems Science	35
21	Journal of Operations Management	34
22	Operations Research	31
23	Production Planning & Control	30
24	Transportation Science	29
25	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	23
-	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	23
-	Informs Journal on Computing	23
28	International Transactions in Operational Research	22
-	Systems & Control Letters	22
30	RAIRO-Operations Research	21
-	IISE Transactions	21
32	Mathematical Programming	19
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	19
34	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	18
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	18
-	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
37	Engineering Optimization	17
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	17
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	17
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	17
41	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	16
-	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	16
43	Naval Research Logistics	15
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	15
45	Operational Research	14
-	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Optimization	14
-	Systems Engineering	14
49	Optimization and Engineering	13
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	13

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