Journal profile · Operations Research & Management Science
Operations Research
ISSN 0030-364X · eISSN 1526-5463 · INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1955
Operations Research: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.65; subscription journal; review about 15 months (community reports); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 161 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Operations Research is published by INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences and is in Zone 4 of Management in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Supply Chain and Inventory Management, Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms, together about 31.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Operations Research publishes quality operations research and management science works of interest to the OR practitioner and researcher in three substantive categories: methods, data-based operational science, and the practice of OR. The journal seeks papers reporting underlying data-based principles of operational science, observations and modeling of operating systems, contributions to the methods and models of OR, case histories of applications, review articles, and discussions of the administrative environment, history, policy, practice, future, and arenas of application of operations research.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Operations Research & Management Science
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting11.7%
- Advanced Queuing Theory AnalysisBusiness, Management and Accounting11.7%
- Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering8.1%
- Optimization and Search ProblemsComputer Science6.6%
- Vehicle Routing Optimization MethodsEngineering5%
- Optimization and Packing ProblemsEngineering4.3%
- Auction Theory and ApplicationsDecision Sciences4.3%
- Consumer Market Behavior and PricingBusiness, Management and Accounting4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Management | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 2.65LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.4LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 3.76LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 122LetPub ·
- h-index
- 308OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 5,253OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.48OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 135LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 8,525 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 129 | 39 | 68 |
| 2025 | 161 | 28 | 391 |
| 2024 | 146 | 19 | 1,060 |
| 2023 | 180 | 41 | 1,933 |
| 2022 | 252 | 54 | 4,029 |
| 2021 | 196 | 55 | 3,952 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- INFORMS Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1955
- ISSN
- 0030-364X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1526-5463
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Operations Research
What CAS zone is Operations Research in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Operations Research is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 3 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 Operations Research?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.65; CiteScore 6.4, h-index 308.
How long does peer review take at Operations Research?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. 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 Operations Research?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Operations Research is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Is Operations Research open access, and what is the APC?
Operations Research is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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: .