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

2004 Impact Factor: 0.515*

Rank:
31/56 (Operations Research and Management Science)
44/67 (Management)

*Thomson-ISI, PA, USA 2005

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 OR
• 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