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Journal rankings · indicator year 2013

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Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2013

102 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences

Management Science and Operations Research has 102 ranked journals in 2013. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.12 against 1.00, down 0.01 on 2012. A journal needs OJR 1.81 to reach Q1. The top three are Omega, International Journal of Project Management, and Journal of Simulation.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 score is computed on.

102
60% of Decision Sciences
Median OJR

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.

1.12-0.01 vs 2012
This subfieldAll 0.92World 1.00
Open-access journals

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.

21%
All fields: 26%
Median listed APC

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.

$3,200
Median positive listed APC: $3,200 among 37 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 64 have no known price. All fields: $3,400.

Subfields of Decision Sciences (4)

102 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Management Science and Operations Research ranking, 2013

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.

OJR

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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013.

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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
5.34Q14.63 0.70 up from 201226311%$4,030
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom
4.67Q13.51 0.15 down from 201228021%$3,200
3Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
3.81Q12.71 0.42 down from 20128510%—
4Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
3.62Q13.01 0.16 up from 201234413%—
5Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States
3.47Q12.64 0.89 up from 20128424%$3,550
6ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
3.12Q12.78 0.16 down from 20127025%—
7Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
2.81Q12.05 0.17 up from 201213927%—
8International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.60Q11.72 0.08 down from 201223333%$2,800
9Grey Systems Theory and ApplicationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.59Q12.56 1.29 down from 2012630%—
10Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States
2.44Q11.90 0.12 up from 20121168%$3,900
2.33Q12.05 0.20 up from 20124159%—
12System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom
2.19Q12.21 0.69 down from 20126012%$3,270
13Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom
2.18Q11.72 0.03 up from 201234221%—
2.16Q11.35 0.18 down from 20128015%$3,240
15Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States
2.15Q11.77 0.32 up from 201214115%—
16Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
2.11Q11.76 0.68 up from 201211922%—
17Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
2.08Q11.29 0.30 down from 201215419%$3,190
18INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
2.05Q11.56 0.04 up from 201216814%—
19Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States
2.03Q11.89 0.08 down from 201253100%$0 listed
20Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.98Q12.14 0.92 up from 201229817%$3,270
21American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States
1.93Q12.15 0.06 down from 20121097%$3,650
1.91Q12.44 0.39 down from 20121669%—
23EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.90Q11.23 0.04 up from 201210615%$3,650
24Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.86Q11.52 0.28 up from 201213617%$2,390
25International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States
1.83Q11.25 0.20 up from 2012705%—
26Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom
1.81Q11.13 0.03 down from 201252812%—
27Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands
1.80Q21.45 0.26 up from 201257720%$3,090
28Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States
1.70Q21.57 0.17 down from 20121648%$3,650
29Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom
1.69Q21.48 0.09 up from 2012848%$3,040
30Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States
1.65Q21.42 0.25 up from 201235424%$2,720
31Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States
1.57Q21.37 0.34 up from 2012500%—
1.57Q21.54 0.19 up from 20129318%$3,400
33ACM SIGecom ExchangesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States
1.54Q21.20 0.06 up from 2012600%—
34International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.51Q21.22 0.07 up from 201215515%—
35Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States
1.48Q21.64 0.20 up from 20121139%$2,500
36Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.44Q21.13 0.14 up from 201231513%$2,960
37International Journal of Applied Decision SciencesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
1.43Q22.00 0.69 up from 2012637%—
38SIMULATIONSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.33Q21.20 0.08 down from 201220516%$4,150
39Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden
1.32Q20.91 0.06 up from 20128317%—
40Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom
1.27Q20.72 0.25 up from 20123217%—
41Advances in Fuzzy SystemsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom
1.24Q21.23 0.77 up from 201285100%$1,000
42InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania
1.24Q21.41 0.19 down from 201211286%—
1.23Q21.46 0.70 down from 2012390%—
44Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States
1.23Q21.32 0.08 down from 20121277%$3,650
45Decision AnalysisInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States
1.21Q21.36 0.54 down from 20128117%—
1.20Q21.47 0.86 up from 2012413%—
1.20Q21.02 0.20 up from 20126122%$2,900
1.20Q20.76 0.01 down from 20125167%—
49International Journal of Multicriteria Decision MakingInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom
1.15Q20.73 0.01 down from 20123920%—
50Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany
1.14Q20.55 0.36 down from 2012530%$3,190

Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

25 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 2010–2012, 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.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
102
Window papers (baseline)
40,888 +25.9% from indicator year 2010
Median OJR
1.12 -0.8% from indicator year 2010
Rising journals (2025)
0

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals46484956606064666669728091102104109108111110105104107110108105107
Window papers (baseline)15,06015,80816,70818,15119,74921,23322,72724,86127,66330,44532,47134,78238,00740,88843,67845,77547,09347,01646,62948,06151,10755,00358,62960,32462,13666,416
Median OJR1.031.021.0971.091.051.161.371.351.431.311.1281.191.1251.121.081.1030.980.910.830.950.860.890.840.790.800.73

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.