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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	132
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	94
3	European Journal of Operational Research	75
4	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	73
5	Management Science	70
6	International Journal of Production Economics	68
7	Technovation	65
8	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	63
9	International Journal of Production Research	60
10	Safety Science	52
11	IEEE Systems Journal	48
12	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	47
13	Production and Operations Management	44
-	Annals of Operations Research	44
15	Decision Support Systems	43
-	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
17	Computers & Operations Research	41
18	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	38
19	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	37
20	Journal of Operations Management	35
21	International Journal of Systems Science	34
22	Operations Research	30
23	Production Planning & Control	29
24	Transportation Science	28
25	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	23
-	Systems & Control Letters	23
-	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	23
28	International Transactions in Operational Research	22
29	Informs Journal on Computing	21
30	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	19
-	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	19
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	19
-	Mathematical Programming	19
-	Mathematics of Operations Research	19
35	Naval Research Logistics	18
-	Engineering Optimization	18
-	IISE Transactions	18
38	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	17
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	17
40	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	16
-	RAIRO-Operations Research	16
-	Computational Optimization and Applications	16
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	16
44	Systems Engineering	15
45	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
-	Optimization	14
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	14
-	Journal of Global Optimization	14
49	Operational Research	13
-	OR Spectrum	13

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