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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	113
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	79
3	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	73
4	European Journal of Operational Research	70
5	International Journal of Production Economics	68
6	Management Science	66
7	International Journal of Production Research	60
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	58
9	Technovation	53
10	IEEE Systems Journal	50
11	Annals of Operations Research	48
12	Safety Science	47
13	Production and Operations Management	44
14	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
-	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	43
16	International Journal of Systems Science	40
-	Computers & Operations Research	40
18	Decision Support Systems	39
19	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	38
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	38
21	Production Planning & Control	30
22	Operations Research	25
-	Journal of Operations Management	25
-	Transportation Science	25
25	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	22
26	RAIRO-Operations Research	20
-	Informs Journal on Computing	20
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	20
29	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	19
-	Systems & Control Letters	19
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
32	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	18
33	Mathematical Programming	17
-	Engineering Optimization	17
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
-	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	17
37	Optimization and Engineering	15
-	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
39	Mathematics of Operations Research	14
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	14
-	IISE Transactions	14
-	Operational Research	14
43	Computational Optimization and Applications	13
-	Memetic Computing	13
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	13
46	Journal of Global Optimization	12
-	Naval Research Logistics	12
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	12
-	International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics	12
50	Optimization	11

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