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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	117
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	81
3	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	74
4	European Journal of Operational Research	72
5	Management Science	69
6	International Journal of Production Economics	68
7	International Journal of Production Research	62
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	58
9	Technovation	57
10	IEEE Systems Journal	50
-	Safety Science	50
12	Annals of Operations Research	48
13	Production and Operations Management	45
14	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
15	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	42
16	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	41
17	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
19	Computers & Operations Research	39
-	International Journal of Systems Science	39
21	Production Planning & Control	32
22	Journal of Operations Management	28
-	Operations Research	28
24	Transportation Science	27
25	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	24
26	Systems & Control Letters	22
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	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
32	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
33	Mathematical Programming	17
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	17
36	Mathematics of Operations Research	16
-	Engineering Optimization	16
38	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	15
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	15
41	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Optimization and Engineering	14
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
-	Operational Research	14
45	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	13
-	Memetic Computing	13
-	Naval Research Logistics	13
-	Optimization	13
49	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	12
-	Operations Research Letters	12

-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	12
-	Systems Engineering	12
53	Optimization Letters	11
54	Journal of Quality Technology	10
-	Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering	10
-	Networks	10
-	Optimization Methods & Software	10
-	Journal of Scheduling	10
-	Mathematical Programming Computation	10
-	OR Spectrum	10
61	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
-	Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research	9
-	IMA Journal of Management Mathematics	9
66	Queueing Systems	8
-	4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research	8
-	Networks & Spatial Economics	8
-	Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications	8
70	International Journal of Technology Management	7
-	Discrete Optimization	7
-	TOP	7
-	Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications	7
-	International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations	7
75	Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences	6
-	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	6
-	European Journal of Industrial Engineering	6
78	INFOR	4
-	Engineering Economist	4