Journal profile · Operations Research & Management Science
Journal of Operations Management
ISSN 0272-6963 · eISSN 1873-1317 · WILEY · UNITED STATES OF AMERICA · Bimonthly · Founded 1980
Journal of Operations Management: CAS Zone 2 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 9.81; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,520; median 518 days to acceptance (62 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: 6%; 76 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Operations Management is published by WILEY and is in Zone 2 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Quality and Supply Management, Innovation and Knowledge Management and Supply Chain and Inventory Management, together about 32.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Management Information Systems and Strategy and Management. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
JOM's distinctive emphasis is on the management of operations: manufacturing operations, service operations, supply chain operations, et cetera. The scope encompasses both for-profit and non-profit operations. Whatever the topic and context, operations must be at the heart of the research question, not just in the context. For example, work on charismatic leadership at a manufacturing plant is within the scope only if the research question links clearly to the management of operations (the vast majority of work on charismatic leadership does not); the fact that the empirical context is manufacturing does not constitute a sufficient condition. Papers published in JOM must be about operations management, and they have to link to authentic practical operational questions and challenges. This does not mean all work must be motivated by practical considerations, it means the link to practice must be credible, and something that is considered at the outset of the research endeavor, not merely as an implication. Authors cannot simply assume or declare that knowledge produced strictly for academic purposes can be "translated" or "implemented" to make it practically relevant.We encourage primarily empirical research that is grounded in relevant operations management problems. Non-empirical work is not categorically excluded, but because demonstrating both academic and practical relevance is difficult in typical conceptual work (e.g., literature reviews, theory development), we invite prospective authors to focus on empirical submissions. We also welcome empirically-grounded analytic models, the guidelines for which can be found here.We promote no specific methodology or epistemology. We encourage diversity both in terms of theoretical bases and empirical approaches. On methodological matters, the key considerations are rigor and fit: Is the work methodologically transparent? Do the claims plausibly follow from the premises? Is there a fit between the research question and the methodology used? All these questions are agnostic to the kind of methodology used or the epistemological foundation embraced. Finally, while some of JOM's departments may be more suitable to interdisciplinary work, it makes no sense to discourage paradigmatically more focused, unidisciplinary work, if it provides good fit with the research question. General topics covered by the journal are divided into eleven departments. Click here to read the departmental mission statements.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Operations Research & Management Science
Editor-in-chief Elliot BendolyPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting15.6%
- Innovation and Knowledge ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting8.7%
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting8.1%
- Outsourcing and Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting7.2%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting6.5%
- Product Development and CustomizationBusiness, Management and Accounting4.9%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.9%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
INSPECCurrent ContentsPublisher website
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
- 9.81LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 10.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 10.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 17.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 17.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 17.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 5.33LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 3.09LetPub ·
- h-index
- 166LetPub ·
- h-index
- 278OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,435OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.31OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 50%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 48LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 58Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 567,195Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,449 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35 | 13 | 11 |
| 2025 | 76 | 49 | 405 |
| 2024 | 68 | 47 | 893 |
| 2023 | 65 | 50 | 1,919 |
| 2022 | 69 | 31 | 3,100 |
| 2021 | 43 | 19 | 1,420 |
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
518 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 448 days – 633 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 30 days (66 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 544 days
- Sample
- 62 articles with submission and acceptance dates (116 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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 16 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- 6%LetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 8%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 480 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,520 / EUR 2,920 / GBP 2,330 | — | — |
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 websiteConflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright
- Conflicts of interest Impact of Carbon Emission Trading Schemes on Firms' Environmental and Social Disclosure Under Institutional Pressure
Fu Jia, Yingjie Ju, Robert D. Klassen, Lujie Chen, Tobias Schoenherr,
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
JOM is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note that this journal uses iThenticate's CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley's Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley's Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and Licensing
If a paper is accepted for publication, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log in to Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they are required to complete a copyright license agreement on behalf of all authors of the paper. Authors may choose to publish under the terms of the journal's standard copyright agr…
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
- WILEY
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1980
- ISSN
- 0272-6963
- Electronic ISSN
- 1873-1317
- Society / sponsor
- Association for Supply Chain Management
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 72, Issue 6 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Operations Management
What CAS zone is Journal of Operations Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Operations Management is in Zone 2 of Management, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Operations Research & Management Science / Management. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Operations Management?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 9.81; CiteScore 17.2, h-index 278.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Operations Management?
Based on the dates recorded on 62 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 518 days (interquartile range 448–633 days); authors report an average review time of about 16 months; the community-reported acceptance is “6%”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 8% (2025). 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.
Which databases index Journal of Operations Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Operations Management is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists INSPEC and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Operations Management open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Operations Management is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,520.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .