ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Aims and scope of journal |
• Impact factor |
• Abstracted/indexed in |
• ISSN and eISSN |
• Editors |

Aims and scope of journal

• Real applications of OR - forecasting, inventory, investment, location, logistics, maintenance, marketing, packing, purchasing, production, project management, reliability and scheduling
• A wide variety of environments - community OR, education, energy, finance, government, health services, manufacturing industries, mining, sports, and transportation
• Technical approaches - decision support systems, expert systems, heuristics, networks, mathematical programming, multicriteria decision methods, problems structuring methods, queues, and simulation

Impact Factor

2008 Impact Factor: 0.839*

Rank:
35/64 - Operations Research & Management Science
64/89 - Management

*Journal Citation Reports, Thomson-Reuters 2009

Abstracted/indexed in

Journal of the Operational Research Society is abstracted and indexed in:

• Association of Business Schools' Academic Journal Quality Guide (www.the-abs.org.uk)
• Anbar Abstracts
• Current Contents
• Compendex
• Computer Abstracts International Database (as of 2004)
• Emerald Management Reviews (EMR)
• INSPEC Abstracts
• International Abstracts in Operations Research
• IBZ - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
• IBR - International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences
• OR/MS Index and Annual Comprehensive Index
• Research Alert
• Science Citation Index
• SciSearch
• SCOPUS
• Social Science Citation Index
• Zentralblatt MATH

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Journal of the Operational Research Society is 0160-5682 and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1476-9360.

Editors

Editors

John Wilson, Loughborough University
Terry Williams, University of Southampton