Journal profile · BUSINESS
WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management
ISSN 1989-9068 · Universidad Politécnica de Valencia · Spain
WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management: CAS Zone 4 · Management (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.2 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 20 weeks (community reports); 8 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management is published by Universidad Politécnica de Valencia 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 Business, Innovation, and Economy, Quality and Supply Management and E-Learning and Knowledge Management, together about 26.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Aim: The WPOM papers include advances and results of research articles. The goal is to produce capsules of knowledge: addressing a very specific subject, developed with an impeccable academic methodology, so that constitutes in itself a contribution to the area. The opinions are a responsibility of the authors. The aim of this publication is to facilitate the access to the academic debate of the research that subsequently will turn into other scientific projects. Thus they can cite and protect against plagiarism the ideas written, without damage of being spread in other media or publications that the author considers to be suitable. Focus: The aim of WPOM is to publish theoretical and empirical articles related to Operations Management and Human Resources Management: Assembly line Design Production and operations management Time study and work design Transport routing optimization Material Handling and Warehousing. Design and Operation Production planning in distributed manufacturing Continuous improvement tools (kaizen,TPM, JIT-KANBAN, TQM, POKA-YOKEs - KITTINGs, Value Stream Mapping, Visual Factory, KARAKURI) Performance measures in industrial settings TeamWork Continuous Improvement Leadership Participative Management High Involvement Work Practices Higher Education Teaching Innovation on Industrial Engineering and operations management Lean Manufacturing Logistics Quality Management Quantitative Methods Operations Scheduling and Sequenzing Corporate Social Responsability Other Human Resource Management practices related to operations management (job description, recruitment, selection, compensation, training, talent management) Job design Submissions approved by Research on Higher Education Learning-Collaboration; HRM-Collaboration, or OM-Collaboration WPOM support three stages publication. Protocols, data papers and articles are wellcomed. WPOM encourage the submission of replication studies, particularly of research published in this journal. When possible, replication studies are reviewed in two stages following the protocol paper format. In particular, the first stage of replication or review (protocol paper) is conducted prior to the data being collected or, for existing datasets, before the outcomes are observed. Contributions can adopt quantitative or qualitative methodological approaches. WPOM selects the articles to be published with a double bind, peer review system, following the practices of good scholarly journals. WPOM is published six-mo
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): BUSINESS
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 13, Colombia 1 (14 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Business, Innovation, and EconomyEconomics, Econometrics and Finance9.6%
- Quality and Supply ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting9.2%
- E-Learning and Knowledge ManagementComputer Science8%
- Organizational Management and InnovationBusiness, Management and Accounting6.4%
- Higher Education Teaching and EvaluationSocial Sciences6.4%
- Scheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsEngineering5.6%
- Business, Education, Mathematics ResearchBusiness, Management and Accounting5.2%
- Supply Chain and Inventory ManagementBusiness, Management and Accounting4.4%
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 | Business | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Management Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Management | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Business | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher) 2025
- 0.2Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 13OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 28OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 8LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 6,856Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 177 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 11 | 4 |
| 2025 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| 2024 | 8 | 8 | 15 |
| 2023 | 5 | 5 | 9 |
| 2022 | 9 | 9 | 42 |
| 2021 | 9 | 9 | 63 |
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 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 20 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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)
Article types accepted8
- case reportCase Report Paper. Evaluation criteria (additional information: Marin-Garcia, J. A., Garcia-Sabater, J. P., & Maheut, J. (2022). Case report papers guidelines: …Length not stated
- case report papersCase Report Papers Case Report Paper.Length not stated
- data paperData paper. Evaluation criteria: (additional information: Marin-Garcia, J. A. (2021). Three-stage publishing to support evidence-based management practice. WPOM…Length not stated
- professional issues papersProfessional Issues Papers examine the relationships between OM and other disciplines and professions, with emphasis on the resolution of practial issues to imp…Length not stated
- protocolProtocol Protocol paper (generic).Length not stated
- research articlesResearch Articles Artículos de investigación sometidos a un proceso de doble revisión ciega.Length not stated
- slr protocolSLR protocol Systematic literature review protocol paper.Length not stated
- teaching experiences based on action researchTeaching experiences based on action research Teaching experiences.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Peer review
- Authorship
Authors retain copyright Model summary
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Notice
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Model summary
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review A noise audit of the peer review of a scientific article: a WPOM journal case study
Tomas Bonavia, Juan A. Marin-Garcia 2098 624 downloads PDF_EN_ES
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
- Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISSN
- 1989-9068
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management
What CAS zone is WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management is in Zone 4 of Management, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Business. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Management. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.2 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 13.
How long does peer review take at WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management?
Authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks. 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.
Where are the editorial board members of WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management based?
Of the 14 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Spain (13) and Colombia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ.
Is WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management open access, and what is the APC?
WPOM-Working Papers on Operations Management is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; 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: .