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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	Expert Systems With Applications	116
2	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	83
3	European Journal of Operational Research	73
4	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	72
5	Management Science	70
6	International Journal of Production Economics	67
7	International Journal of Production Research	61
8	Technovation	58
9	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	57
10	IEEE Systems Journal	52
11	Safety Science	51
12	Annals of Operations Research	49
13	Production and Operations Management	45
14	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
15	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
16	International Journal of Systems Science	42
-	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	42
18	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
20	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
21	Production Planning & Control	31
22	Journal of Operations Management	30
23	Operations Research	29
24	Transportation Science	27
25	Informs Journal on Computing	22
-	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	22
-	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	22
-	Systems & Control Letters	22
29	RAIRO-Operations Research	21
-	International Transactions in Operational Research	21
31	Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics	19
-	Optimal Control Applications & Methods	19
33	Mathematical Programming	18
-	Journal of the Operational Research Society	18
35	Mathematics of Operations Research	17
36	IISE Transactions	16
-	Engineering Optimization	16
38	Computational Optimization and Applications	15
-	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	15
-	International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making	15
-	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	15
42	Journal of Global Optimization	14
-	Central European Journal of Operations Research	14
-	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	14
-	Naval Research Logistics	14
46	Optimization	13
-	Quality Technology and Quantitative Management	13
-	Memetic Computing	13
-	Operational Research	13
50	Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry	12

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