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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	128
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	90
3	European Journal of Operational Research	76
4	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	73
5	Management Science	72
6	International Journal of Production Economics	66
-	Technovation	66
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	62
9	International Journal of Production Research	61
10	IEEE Systems Journal	51
11	Safety Science	49
12	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	46
13	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	45
-	Annals of Operations Research	45
15	Decision Support Systems	43
16	Production and Operations Management	42
17	Computers & Operations Research	40
18	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	36
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	36
20	International Journal of Systems Science	35
21	Journal of Operations Management	34
22	Operations Research	31
23	Production Planning & Control	27
-	Transportation Science	27
25	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	24
26	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	23
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	23
-	Systems & Control Letters	23
29	Informs Journal on Computing	22
30	IISE Transactions	20
-	Mathematical Programming	20
-	RAIRO-Operations Research	20
33	Mathematics of Operations Research	19
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
35	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	18
-	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	18
-	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
38	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	17
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	17
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
-	Engineering Optimization	17
42	Naval Research Logistics	16
43	Systems Engineering	15
-	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
45	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Optimization	14
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	14
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
49	Operational Research	13
-	Optimization and Engineering	13

51	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	12
-	Optimization Letters	12
-	OR Spectrum	12
54	Networks	11
-	Informs Journal on Applied Analytics	11
-	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	11
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	11
-	Operations Research Letters	11
-	Optimization Methods & Software	11
60	Journal of Quality Technology	10
-	Journal of Simulation	10
-	Memetic Computing	10
-	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	10
64	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
-	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
-	Journal of Scheduling	9
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	9
70	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	8
-	International Journal of Technology Management	8
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	8
-	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	8
-	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	8
75	TOP	7
-	Queueing Systems	7
77	INFOR	6
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	6
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	6
-	Engineering Economist	6
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	6
-	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
-	Discrete Optimization	6