Journal profile · Engineering-Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
IISE Transactions
ISSN 2472-5854 · eISSN 2472-5862 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · United Kingdom
IISE Transactions: CAS Zone 3 · Engineering (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.5; JCR Q2 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 343 days to acceptance (94 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 18% (journal website); 79 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
IISE Transactions is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Engineering in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Reliability and Maintenance Optimization and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms, together about 25.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
As the flagship journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, IISE Transactions publishes original high-quality papers on a wide range of topics of interest to industrial engineers who want to remain current with the state-of-the-art technologies. The refereed journal aims to foster the engineering community by publishing papers with a strong methodological focus motivated by real problems that impact engineering practice and research. Published monthly, the journal is composed of four focus issues: Design and Manufacturing, Operations Engineering and Analytics, Data Science, Quality and Reliability, and Supply Chain and Logistics. IISE Transactions encourages research motivated by critical and complex engineering problems that arise in a wide variety of domains including service, public policy, health care, security, biotechnology, transportation, and others. The journal publishes papers that integrate industrial engineering with other disciplines including statistics, other engineering disciplines, computer science, biological science, and operations research. Articles covering new methodologies and state-of-the-art surveys are included in the journal. Readership: Industrial Engineering researchers and practitioners in the areas of data science and data engineering, operations research and management, scheduling, logistics, supply chain, manufacturing, quality and reliability engineering. All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering-Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Editor-in-chief Jionghua (Judy) JinPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 5 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting9.9%
- Reliability and Maintenance OptimizationEngineering9.3%
- Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering6.4%
- Advanced Statistical Process MonitoringDecision Sciences6%
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics OptimizationEngineering5.7%
- Advanced Queuing Theory AnalysisBusiness, Management and Accounting5.6%
- Manufacturing Process and OptimizationEngineering4.3%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Industrial | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Industrial | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Engineering Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Engineering | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Industrial | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
INSPECPublisher website
Other: CSA/ASCE Civil Engineering Abstracts, CSA-Computer & Information Systems Abstracts, CSA-Corrosion Abstracts, CSA-Electronics & Communications Abstracts, CSA-Engineered Materials Abstracts, CSA-Materials Research Database with METADEX, CSA-Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts, CSA-Solid State & Superconductivity Abstracts
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 2.5LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.89LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.89Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 1.03Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 85LetPub ·
- h-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 394OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.85OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 5.64%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 80LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 181,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 953 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 74 | 11 | 29 |
| 2025 | 79 | 18 | 141 |
| 2024 | 91 | 21 | 525 |
| 2023 | 102 | 17 | 899 |
| 2022 | 106 | 20 | 1,333 |
| 2021 | 73 | 33 | 878 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
343 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 260 days – 460 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 52 days (94 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 395 days
- Sample
- 94 articles with submission and acceptance dates (185 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 18%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 70 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 74 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 50 daysPublisher website ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Open access
- Data availability
Reproducibility Report required for new submissions after July 15, 2021 Model summary
IISE Transactions requires a Reproducibility Report for new submissions after July 15, 2021
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access
IISE Transactions is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discoverability and reade…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Ltd.
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2472-5854
- Electronic ISSN
- 2472-5862
- Society / sponsor
- Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 58, Issue 11 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about IISE Transactions
What CAS zone is IISE Transactions in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, IISE Transactions is in Zone 3 of Engineering, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Engineering, Industrial / Operations Research & Management Science. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Engineering. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of IISE Transactions?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.5; CiteScore 5.4, h-index 52.
How long does peer review take at IISE Transactions?
Based on the dates recorded on 94 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 343 days (interquartile range 260–460 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 18%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What JCR quartile is IISE Transactions in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 3 of Engineering.
Where are the editorial board members of IISE Transactions based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index IISE Transactions?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, IISE Transactions is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists INSPEC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is IISE Transactions open access, and what is the APC?
IISE Transactions is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .