Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2016
108 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 108 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.12 on 2015 to 0.98, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.69. The top three are Omega, International Journal of Project Management, and British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
108 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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.33Q1 | 4.58 1.26 down from 2015 | 321 | 28% | $4,030 | ||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.08Q1 | 5.04 0.41 up from 2015 | 340 | 34% | $3,200 | ||
3British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 3.93Q1 | 1.17 3.90 down from 2015 | 58 | 19% | $3,400 | ||
4International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.37Q1 | 2.38 0.10 up from 2015 | 236 | 34% | $2,800 | ||
5Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 3.18Q1 | 2.46 0.40 down from 2015 | 347 | 27% | — | ||
6Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 3.01Q1 | 2.62 0.29 down from 2015 | 87 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
7Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.87Q1 | 3.04 1.52 up from 2015 | 62 | 14% | $2,500 | ||
8Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.83Q1 | 2.56 0.12 up from 2015 | 199 | 21% | $3,900 | ||
9EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.69Q1 | 1.89 0.43 down from 2015 | 115 | 29% | $3,650 | ||
10ACM Transactions on Economics and ComputationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 2.47Q1 | 1.41 1.67 down from 2015 | 69 | 24% | — | ||
11Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 1.45 2.15 down from 2015 | 85 | 28% | $3,040 | ||
12Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.17Q1 | 2.36 0.72 up from 2015 | 252 | 13% | — | ||
13Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.12Q1 | 1.99 0.17 down from 2015 | 241 | 53% | — | ||
14Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.07Q1 | 2.08 0.69 up from 2015 | 133 | 35% | $2,390 | ||
15INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 2.05Q1 | 2.08 0.28 up from 2015 | 123 | 24% | — | ||
16Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.05Q1 | 1.45 0.24 up from 2015 | 64 | 8% | — | ||
17Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.02Q1 | 1.64 0.25 down from 2015 | 163 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
18Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.95Q1 | 1.67 0.20 down from 2015 | 404 | 28% | $3,270 | ||
19Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.93Q1 | 2.11 0.93 up from 2015 | 106 | 17% | — | ||
20Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.88Q1 | 1.75 0.09 up from 2015 | 93 | 23% | — | ||
21Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.86Q1 | 1.29 0.26 down from 2015 | 126 | 48% | $3,190 | ||
22Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 1.25 0.11 down from 2015 | 78 | 29% | $3,240 | ||
23System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 2.37 0.25 up from 2015 | 48 | 50% | $3,270 | ||
24Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 1.33 0.27 down from 2015 | 447 | 30% | — | ||
25Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.76Q1 | 1.61 0.15 down from 2015 | 781 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
26Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.75Q1 | 1.86 0.22 up from 2015 | 157 | 37% | — | ||
27International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 1.41 0.06 up from 2015 | 146 | 24% | — | ||
28Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 1.69Q2 | 2.00 0.46 up from 2015 | 58 | 22% | $3,550 | ||
29EURO Journal on Decision ProcessesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.63Q2 | 1.13 1.30 down from 2015 | 50 | 71% | $1,400 | ||
30Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 1.30 0.34 up from 2015 | 78 | 46% | — | ||
31International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.51Q2 | 1.59 0.38 up from 2015 | 212 | 16% | — | ||
32American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.50Q2 | 1.23 0.27 down from 2015 | 143 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
33Computational Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.44Q2 | 1.68 0.46 up from 2015 | 79 | 43% | $3,190 | ||
34Construction Economics and BuildingOAUTS ePRESS · Australia | 1.43Q2 | 1.30 0.01 up from 2015 | 108 | 100% | — | ||
35Measurement Interdisciplinary Research and PerspectivesTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.41Q2 | 1.91 0.72 up from 2015 | 47 | 12% | — | ||
36Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 1.38Q2 | 1.14 0.13 down from 2015 | 364 | 36% | $2,720 | ||
37ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.37Q2 | 2.00 0.43 down from 2015 | 79 | 29% | — | ||
38Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.37Q2 | 1.37 0.39 up from 2015 | 107 | 32% | — | ||
39Operations Research LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.32Q2 | 0.95 0.04 up from 2015 | 381 | 37% | $2,960 | ||
40IMA Journal of Management MathematicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.30Q2 | 1.16 0.20 up from 2015 | 89 | 26% | $3,718 | ||
| 1.25Q2 | 1.19 0.21 down from 2015 | 193 | 35% | $3,190 | |||
42Decision AnalysisInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.22Q2 | 1.25 0.10 down from 2015 | 73 | 44% | — | ||
43Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.20Q2 | 1.31 0.05 down from 2015 | 86 | 11% | $3,190 | ||
44Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.19Q2 | 1.16 0.06 down from 2015 | 135 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
45Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 0.97 0.31 down from 2015 | 61 | 26% | $2,900 | ||
46InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.17Q2 | 1.43 0.40 down from 2015 | 109 | 24% | — | ||
47ACM SIGecom ExchangesAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.16Q2 | 0.97 0.12 up from 2015 | 43 | 13% | — | ||
48International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.15Q2 | 0.84 0.29 down from 2015 | 63 | 12% | — | ||
49New Directions for EvaluationWiley · United States | 1.06Q2 | 0.69 0.24 down from 2015 | 96 | 41% | $3,140 | ||
50SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.05Q2 | 1.42 0.16 up from 2015 | 55 | 100% | $2,896 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research108
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty40
- Information Systems and Management33
- General Decision Sciences5
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
26 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 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 108
- Window papers (baseline)
- 47,093 +15.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.98 -12.3% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.