Journal profile · Engineering, Industrial
Production Planning & Control
ISSN 0953-7287 · eISSN 1366-5871 · Taylor and Francis Ltd. · ENGLAND · Bimonthly
Production Planning & Control: CAS Zone 3 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 6.38; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 198 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 72 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Production Planning & Control is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 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, Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms and Sustainable Supply Chain Management, together about 33.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Management Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Production Planning & Control is an international journal that brings together research papers on the management of operations in all industries. The journal focuses on research that stems from an industrial need and can guide the activities of managers and future researchers. With the aim of developing the research community in operations management, pictures and bios of authors together with their contact details are provided with each paper. Where possible, reviewers provide guidance for the improvement of papers including those being rejected. Production Planning & Control welcomes papers that describe research based on the emerging needs of industry, making clear the nature of the industrial problem. Any appropriate research methods may be used and each paper should justify the method applied. Case studies are welcome where they illustrate research needs or application problems that have significance at the international level. Writers should relate their work to the existing knowledge in the field, especially with regard to the implications of the work for management practice and setting the agenda for future research. Papers based on surveys tend to be broad and descriptive and often fail to develop useful new knowledge that can guide the activities of managers. Production Planning & Control is not the appropriate journal for theoretical papers in operations research, OR/MS, optimisation or simulation based on invented scenarios or other numerical experiments or examples that are only tested in the laboratory, even when the test data comes from a company. To be published in Production Planning & Control, a paper will have been reviewed and accepted by at least two competent experts in the field. Reviewers are drawn from the Editorial Board and a list of occasional reviewers who have been nominated for their expertise. Reviewers’ comments are based on relevance to the field, particularly applicability in industry, besides originality and scientific rigour. Production Planning & Control is subscribed to by a wealth of universities and industry libraries and readership includes researchers in the field of operations management, supply chain management, and business improvement, consultants dealing with manufacturing and service industries, operations managers, business improvement specialists, and other managers in industry.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Engineering, Industrial
Editor-in-chief Bjørn AndersenPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting15.1%
- Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering10.3%
- Sustainable Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting8.2%
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting6%
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics OptimizationEngineering5.9%
- Manufacturing Process and OptimizationEngineering4.9%
- Assembly Line Balancing OptimizationEngineering4.2%
- Outsourcing and Supply Chain ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Industrial | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Manufacturing | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Industrial | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Manufacturing | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Operations Research & Management Science | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview 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 2 |
| Minor | Engineering, Industrial | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Engineering, Manufacturing | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q1 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q1 · 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
INSPECCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, OCLC, British Library Inside, Cabell’ Management Directory, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, EBSCO Databases, Electronic Collections Online, Engineering Information Inc, International Abstracts in Operations Research, ISI CompuMath Citation Index®, New Jour, OCLC ArticleFirst, Recent Advances in Manufacturing Database (RAM), Zetoc
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
- 6.38LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 8.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 21.2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 21.2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.03LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 2.03Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.41LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 2.41Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 138OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,017OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.2OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 9.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 27.31%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 66LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 725,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,284 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 102 | 54 | 90 |
| 2025 | 72 | 36 | 363 |
| 2024 | 91 | 63 | 1,455 |
| 2023 | 97 | 59 | 2,342 |
| 2022 | 85 | 49 | 3,004 |
| 2021 | 112 | 63 | 6,238 |
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
198 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 127 days – 368 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 20 days (103 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 227 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (193 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)
- 6–12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review 2025
- 55 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 22 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 websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Production Planning & Control 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 discoverabili…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Special issues are invitation-only; uninvited special issues are not published. Model summary
The policy of PPC is not to publish uninvited special issues. Future special issues will be organised on an invitation-only basis.
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
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- ISSN
- 0953-7287
- Electronic ISSN
- 1366-5871
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 37, Issue 12 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Production Planning & Control
What CAS zone is Production Planning & Control in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Production Planning & Control is in Zone 3 of Management, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Operations Research & Management Science / Engineering, Industrial / Engineering, Manufacturing. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Production Planning & Control?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 6.38; CiteScore 21.2, h-index 138.
How long does peer review take at Production Planning & Control?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 198 days (interquartile range 127–368 days); authors report an average review time of 6–12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 6% (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.
What JCR quartile is Production Planning & Control in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1 (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 Management.
Which databases index Production Planning & Control?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Production Planning & Control is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists INSPEC and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Production Planning & Control open access, and what is the APC?
Production Planning & Control 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: .