Journal rankings · indicator year 2012
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Subfield ranking · 2012
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2012
91 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 91 ranked journals in 2012. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2011 to 1.13, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.71. The top three are Omega, International Journal of Project Management, and Operations Research.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2012. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Decision Sciences (4)
91 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2011. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2009–2011, the window the 2012 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2009–2011 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2003 to 2012. | Compare |
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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.53Q1 | 3.93 0.01 down from 2011 | 211 | 8% | $4,030 | ||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.27Q1 | 3.66 0.64 up from 2011 | 246 | 20% | $3,200 | ||
3Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.91Q1 | 2.86 0.33 down from 2011 | 374 | 17% | — | ||
4Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.93Q1 | 1.52 0.44 down from 2011 | 72 | 5% | $3,240 | ||
5Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.91Q1 | 1.59 0.15 up from 2011 | 132 | 17% | $3,190 | ||
6Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.66Q1 | 3.13 0.99 up from 2011 | 86 | 13% | — | ||
7International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 1.79 0.09 down from 2011 | 260 | 19% | $2,800 | ||
8ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.55Q1 | 2.94 0.47 down from 2011 | 68 | 15% | — | ||
9Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.52Q1 | 1.75 0.45 up from 2011 | 66 | 7% | $3,550 | ||
10International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 2.43Q1 | 2.83 0.19 down from 2011 | 149 | 2% | — | ||
11INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2.36Q1 | 1.52 0.57 down from 2011 | 184 | 20% | — | ||
12System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.31Q1 | 2.90 1.26 up from 2011 | 54 | 21% | $3,270 | ||
13Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.29Q1 | 1.78 0.18 up from 2011 | 125 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
14American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.25Q1 | 2.21 0.57 up from 2011 | 130 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
15Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 2.22Q1 | 1.97 0.14 up from 2011 | 35 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
16Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 1.46 0.08 up from 2011 | 129 | 20% | — | ||
17Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.01Q1 | 1.88 0.69 down from 2011 | 151 | 29% | — | ||
18Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.95Q1 | 1.69 0.26 up from 2011 | 311 | 24% | — | ||
19Computational Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.89Q1 | 0.94 1.00 down from 2011 | 44 | 13% | $3,190 | ||
20Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.16 0.19 down from 2011 | 558 | 13% | — | ||
21Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.82Q1 | 1.74 0.11 down from 2011 | 167 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
22Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.78Q1 | 1.19 0.39 down from 2011 | 519 | 13% | $3,090 | ||
23Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.71Q1 | 1.17 0.15 down from 2011 | 370 | 23% | $2,720 | ||
24Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.69Q2 | 1.08 0.20 up from 2011 | 112 | 10% | — | ||
25Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.64Q2 | 0.90 0.24 up from 2011 | 55 | 10% | — | ||
26Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.62Q2 | 1.43 0.27 down from 2011 | 112 | 8% | $2,500 | ||
27Advances in Operations ResearchHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.61Q2 | 0.65 1.04 down from 2011 | 34 | 96% | $1,080 | ||
28International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.60Q2 | 1.15 0.20 down from 2011 | 160 | 2% | — | ||
29Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.57Q2 | 1.23 0.03 up from 2011 | 129 | 20% | $2,390 | ||
30International Journal of Project Organisation and ManagementInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 1.41Q2 | 0.69 0.10 down from 2011 | 56 | 8% | — | ||
31Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.40Q2 | 1.39 0.33 down from 2011 | 83 | 11% | $3,040 | ||
32International Journal of Information Technology Project ManagementIGI Global · United States | 1.40Q2 | 0.85 0.11 up from 2011 | 40 | 4% | — | ||
33InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.38Q2 | 1.60 0.79 down from 2011 | 111 | 83% | — | ||
34Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | 1.22 0.36 down from 2011 | 305 | 14% | $3,270 | ||
35British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 1.35 0.14 up from 2011 | 100 | 20% | $3,400 | ||
36SIMULATIONSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 1.28 0.13 up from 2011 | 220 | 7% | $4,150 | ||
37Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 0.99 0.04 down from 2011 | 314 | 8% | $2,960 | ||
38EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.27Q2 | 1.19 0.35 down from 2011 | 97 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
39International Journal of Managing Information TechnologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.22Q2 | 0.76 0.26 up from 2011 | 34 | 86% | — | ||
40ACM SIGecom ExchangesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.14 0.67 up from 2011 | 66 | 0% | — | ||
41Decision AnalysisInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.90 0.38 down from 2011 | 77 | 12% | — | ||
42Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.17Q2 | 1.40 0.05 down from 2011 | 123 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
43Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.15Q2 | 0.91 0.16 up from 2011 | 84 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
44Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.14Q2 | 0.82 0.66 down from 2011 | 51 | 16% | $2,900 | ||
45OR InsightPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 0.49 0.04 down from 2011 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
| 1.13Q2 | 0.91 0.38 down from 2011 | 169 | 11% | $3,190 | |||
47Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy SystemsIOS Press · Netherlands | 1.10Q3 | 1.17 0.26 up from 2011 | 88 | 6% | $4,150 | ||
48Systemic Practice and Action ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.09Q3 | 1.21 0.01 down from 2011 | 107 | 10% | $3,290 | ||
49International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.09Q3 | 1.05 0.18 up from 2011 | 64 | 9% | — | ||
50Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.07Q3 | 0.86 0.01 up from 2011 | 77 | 4% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research91
- Information Systems and Management31
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty28
- General Decision Sciences4
Journals
Citations made in 2012. Corpus-wide, 75.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
28 additional Management Science and Operations Research journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2009–2011, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2012. Publication window: 2009–2011. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 91
- Window papers (baseline)
- 38,007 +24.8% from indicator year 2009
- Median OJR
- 1.125 -14.2% from indicator year 2009
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2009–2011 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 46 | 48 | 49 | 56 | 60 | 60 | 64 | 66 | 66 | 69 | 72 | 80 | 91 | 102 | 104 | 109 | 108 | 111 | 110 | 105 | 104 | 107 | 110 | 108 | 105 | 107 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,060 | 15,808 | 16,708 | 18,151 | 19,749 | 21,233 | 22,727 | 24,861 | 27,663 | 30,445 | 32,471 | 34,782 | 38,007 | 40,888 | 43,678 | 45,775 | 47,093 | 47,016 | 46,629 | 48,061 | 51,107 | 55,003 | 58,629 | 60,324 | 62,136 | 66,416 | |
| Median OJR | 1.03 | 1.02 | 1.097 | 1.09 | 1.05 | 1.16 | 1.37 | 1.35 | 1.43 | 1.31 | 1.128 | 1.19 | 1.125 | 1.12 | 1.08 | 1.103 | 0.98 | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.95 | 0.86 | 0.89 | 0.84 | 0.79 | 0.80 | 0.73 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.