New: Think Tank Rankings 2025

Operations Research & Management Science

Journal Rankings
TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor
(The data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)
(Using publications from roughly 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01)
Rank Journal Papers
1 Expert Systems With Applications11814
2 Reliability Engineering & System Safety2973
3 European Journal of Operational Research2808
4 Annals of Operations Research2534
5 Management Science2169
6 IEEE Systems Journal1691
7 International Journal of Production Research1558
8 Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review1438
9 Computers & Operations Research1275
10 International Journal of Production Economics1233
11 Safety Science1220
12 Production and Operations Management1084
13 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences1061
14 International Journal of Systems Science997
15 Journal of Manufacturing Systems963
16 Quality and Reliability Engineering International946
17 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications903
18 RAIRO-Operations Research825
19 Informs Journal on Computing813
20 Systems & Control Letters791
21 Operations Research765
22 Technovation727
23 International Transactions in Operational Research716
24 Optimization634
25 M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management623
26 Journal of the Operational Research Society620
27 OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science615
28 Transportation Research Part B-Methodological612
29 Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics604
30 Optimal Control Applications & Methods589
31 Mathematics of Operations Research585
32 Mathematical Programming570
33 Decision Support Systems563
34 Engineering Optimization475
35 Operations Research Letters467
36 Journal of Global Optimization447
37 Optimization Letters439
38 Computational Optimization and Applications408
39 International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing400
40 International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making373
41 IISE Transactions368
42 Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry356
43 Production Planning & Control349
44 Optimization and Engineering339
45 Transportation Science337
46 Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part O-Journal of Risk and Reliability318
47 Naval Research Logistics308
48 Operational Research301
49 International Journal of Technology Management289
50 Journal of Operations Management281
51 International Journal of Systems Science-Operations & Logistics275
52 Networks262
53 Systems Engineering258
54 Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research252
55 European Journal of Industrial Engineering242
56 Queueing Systems234
57 Optimization Methods & Software225
58 International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations221
59 Central European Journal of Operations Research217
60 Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal206
61 Studies in Informatics and Control202
62 Quality Technology and Quantitative Management194
63 Informs Journal on Applied Analytics187
64 Journal of Simulation184
65 OR Spectrum177
66 Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering173
67 Networks & Spatial Economics151
68 Journal of Scheduling150
- Mathematical Methods of Operations Research150
70 Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences139
71 Memetic Computing130
72 Journal of Quality Technology129
73 Discrete Optimization128
74 IMA Journal of Management Mathematics126
75 INFOR120
76 Operations Research Perspectives115
77 4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research107
78 Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making94
79 TOP85
80 Mathematical Programming Computation84
81 Concurrent Engineering-Research and Applications82
82 Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications70
83 Engineering Economist61
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