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

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	120
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	88
3	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	76
4	European Journal of Operational Research	72
-	Management Science	72
6	International Journal of Production Economics	67
7	Technovation	64
8	International Journal of Production Research	61
9	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	60
10	IEEE Systems Journal	51
11	Safety Science	50
12	Annals of Operations Research	49
13	Production and Operations Management	46
14	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	45
-	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	45
16	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	42
17	Decision Support Systems	41
18	International Journal of Systems Science	40
19	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
-	Computers & Operations Research	39
21	Journal of Operations Management	32
22	Operations Research	31
23	Production Planning & Control	29
24	Transportation Science	28
25	Informs Journal on Computing	26
26	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	25
27	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	23
-	RAIRO-Operations Research	23
29	Systems & Control Letters	22
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	22
31	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
-	Mathematical Programming	19
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	19
34	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	17
-	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	17
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	17
-	IISE Transactions	17
38	Engineering Optimization	16
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	16
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	16
41	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	15
-	Naval Research Logistics	15
43	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
-	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	14
-	Memetic Computing	14
-	Operational Research	14
-	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Optimization	14
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	14
50	Optimization and Engineering	13

-	Systems Engineering	13
52	Operations Research Letters	12
-	Optimization Letters	12
54	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	11
-	Informs Journal on Applied Analytics	11
-	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	11
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	11
-	Optimization Methods & Software	11
-	Networks	11
-	Operations Research Perspectives	11
-	OR Spectrum	11
62	Journal of Simulation	10
-	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	10
64	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
-	Journal of Scheduling	9
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	9
-	Studies in Informatics and Control	9
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
-	Journal of Quality Technology	9
-	Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability	9
71	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	8
-	Discrete Optimization	8
-	Queueing Systems	8
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	8
-	International Journal of Technology Management	8
76	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	7
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	7
80	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
-	TOP	6
82	Engineering Economist	5
-	INFOR	5