Journal rankings · indicator year 2015
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Subfield ranking · 2015
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2015
109 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 109 ranked journals in 2015. Its median journal scores above the world average: OJR 1.10 against 1.00, up 0.02 on 2014. A journal needs OJR 1.73 to reach Q1. The top three are Omega, International Journal of Project Management, and British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2015. 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 2012–2014, the window the 2015 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)
109 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 2014. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2012–2014, the window the 2015 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2012–2014 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 2006 to 2015. | Compare |
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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.46Q1 | 5.85 0.20 down from 2014 | 265 | 23% | $4,030 | ||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.55Q1 | 4.63 0.11 up from 2014 | 335 | 26% | $3,200 | ||
3British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.67Q1 | 5.07 1.72 up from 2014 | 74 | 26% | $3,400 | ||
4ACM Transactions on Economics and ComputationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 3.53Q1 | 3.08 0.57 down from 2014 | 38 | 13% | — | ||
5Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.38Q1 | 2.86 0.09 down from 2014 | 344 | 16% | — | ||
6International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.08Q1 | 2.28 0.51 up from 2014 | 217 | 28% | $2,800 | ||
7Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 3.00Q1 | 2.91 0.81 up from 2014 | 77 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
8Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.85Q1 | 1.66 1.39 down from 2014 | 94 | 17% | — | ||
9EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 2.32 0.43 down from 2014 | 110 | 42% | $3,650 | ||
10Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.69Q1 | 2.44 0.56 down from 2014 | 155 | 8% | $3,900 | ||
11Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 3.60 1.48 up from 2014 | 86 | 16% | $3,040 | ||
12ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.49Q1 | 2.43 0.46 up from 2014 | 68 | 33% | — | ||
13System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 2.42Q1 | 2.12 0.75 down from 2014 | 55 | 24% | $3,270 | ||
14EURO Journal on Decision ProcessesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 2.27Q1 | 2.42 0.06 up from 2014 | 33 | 29% | $1,400 | ||
15Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.25Q1 | 1.18 0.58 down from 2014 | 110 | 26% | — | ||
16Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 2.22Q1 | 1.36 0.28 down from 2014 | 82 | 16% | $3,240 | ||
17INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2.10Q1 | 1.79 0.27 down from 2014 | 123 | 19% | — | ||
18Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 2.16 0.48 up from 2014 | 309 | 32% | — | ||
19Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.64 0.62 down from 2014 | 168 | 24% | — | ||
20Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.00Q1 | 1.55 0.16 up from 2014 | 159 | 34% | $3,190 | ||
21Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.00Q1 | 1.54 0.35 down from 2014 | 73 | 23% | $3,550 | ||
22Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.87Q1 | 1.87 0.06 down from 2014 | 360 | 23% | $3,270 | ||
23Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 1.76 0.29 up from 2014 | 701 | 19% | $3,090 | ||
24Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.85Q1 | 1.51 0.70 down from 2014 | 60 | 3% | $2,500 | ||
25Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.61 0.31 up from 2014 | 515 | 17% | — | ||
26Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.80Q1 | 1.88 0.02 up from 2014 | 162 | 98% | $3,650 | ||
27Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.76Q1 | 1.27 0.31 down from 2014 | 375 | 30% | $2,720 | ||
28Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.73Q1 | 1.39 0.12 up from 2014 | 139 | 18% | $2,390 | ||
29American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.67Q2 | 1.50 0.43 down from 2014 | 128 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
30International Journal of Managing Information TechnologyOAPublisher not listed | 1.63Q2 | 1.53 0.45 up from 2014 | 36 | 67% | — | ||
31Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.62Q2 | 1.64 0.40 up from 2014 | 238 | 12% | — | ||
32Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.59Q2 | 1.28 0.16 up from 2014 | 72 | 0% | $2,900 | ||
33International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.57Q2 | 1.35 0.24 down from 2014 | 136 | 19% | — | ||
| 1.54Q2 | 1.40 0.42 down from 2014 | 212 | 15% | $3,190 | |||
35InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.47Q2 | 1.83 0.32 up from 2014 | 106 | 61% | — | ||
36Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.46Q2 | 1.35 0.83 up from 2014 | 40 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
37International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.36Q2 | 1.21 0.28 down from 2014 | 219 | 4% | — | ||
38Construction Economics and BuildingOAUTS ePRESS · Australia | 1.36Q2 | 1.29 0.26 up from 2014 | 206 | 100% | — | ||
39Measurement Interdisciplinary Research and PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.35Q2 | 1.19 0.22 up from 2014 | 45 | 10% | — | ||
40Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.33Q2 | 0.96 0.16 down from 2014 | 63 | 33% | — | ||
41Decision AnalysisInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.31Q2 | 1.35 0.09 up from 2014 | 82 | 23% | — | ||
42IMA Journal of Management MathematicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.28Q2 | 0.96 0.04 down from 2014 | 89 | 19% | $3,718 | ||
43Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 0.97 0.52 up from 2014 | 50 | 0% | — | ||
44Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.24Q2 | 1.22 0.41 down from 2014 | 144 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
45Computational Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.24Q2 | 1.22 0.04 down from 2014 | 85 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
46Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.23Q2 | 0.99 0.08 up from 2014 | 107 | 21% | — | ||
47Statistics & Risk ModelingR. Oldenbourg Verlag · Germany | 1.22Q2 | 1.39 0.24 up from 2014 | 48 | 67% | $2,712 | ||
48Evaluation Journal of AustralasiaSAGE Publishing · Australia | 1.19Q2 | 1.05 0.96 up from 2014 | 33 | 18% | $3,400 | ||
49SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.19Q2 | 1.26 0.40 up from 2014 | 37 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
50Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.16Q2 | 0.91 0.24 down from 2014 | 363 | 27% | $2,960 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research109
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty35
- Information Systems and Management32
- General Decision Sciences4
Journals
Citations made in 2015. Corpus-wide, 78.1% 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 2012–2014, 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: 2015. Publication window: 2012–2014. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 109
- Window papers (baseline)
- 45,775 +20.4% from indicator year 2012
- Median OJR
- 1.103 -2.0% from indicator year 2012
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2012–2014 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.