Journal rankings · indicator year 2019
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Subfield ranking · 2019
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2019
105 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 105 ranked journals in 2019. The median OJR rose 0.12 on 2018 to 0.95, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.41. The top three are International Journal of Project Management, Omega, and Operations Research Perspectives.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2019. 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 2016–2018, the window the 2019 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)
105 ranked journals
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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 2018. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2016–2018, the window the 2019 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2016–2018 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 2010 to 2019. | Compare |
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1International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.87Q1 | 9.13 2.60 up from 2018 | 315 | 30% | $3,200 | ||
2OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.89Q1 | 5.87 0.97 up from 2018 | 392 | 35% | $4,030 | ||
3Operations Research PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.48Q1 | 2.68 4.36 down from 2018 | 69 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
4International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.33Q1 | 3.80 0.59 down from 2018 | 273 | 35% | $2,800 | ||
5Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.99Q1 | 5.84 4.63 down from 2018 | 135 | 2% | $2,390 | ||
6Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.52Q1 | 4.48 0.76 up from 2018 | 256 | 22% | — | ||
7Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.35Q1 | 3.79 0.19 up from 2018 | 159 | 19% | $3,550 | ||
8Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 2.26Q1 | 2.75 0.08 down from 2018 | 324 | 26% | — | ||
9Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.09Q1 | 1.69 0.18 down from 2018 | 70 | 4% | — | ||
10Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.08Q1 | 3.54 0.97 up from 2018 | 166 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
11Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 3.59 1.05 up from 2018 | 207 | 30% | — | ||
12Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 3.14 0.95 up from 2018 | 186 | 39% | — | ||
13International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.81Q1 | 2.34 0.39 down from 2018 | 192 | 9% | — | ||
14British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.79Q1 | 2.89 0.71 up from 2018 | 79 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
15InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.75Q1 | 4.25 1.89 up from 2018 | 120 | 78% | — | ||
16International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.74Q1 | 3.08 0.23 up from 2018 | 153 | 29% | — | ||
17Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 1.78 0.07 down from 2018 | 128 | 21% | $2,390 | ||
18Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.66Q1 | 2.85 0.42 up from 2018 | 1,010 | 30% | $3,090 | ||
19EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.62Q1 | 1.79 1.12 down from 2018 | 107 | 44% | $3,650 | ||
20Construction Economics and BuildingOAUTS ePRESS · Australia | 1.61Q1 | 2.41 0.55 up from 2018 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
21Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.55Q1 | 2.49 0.56 up from 2018 | 437 | 22% | — | ||
22Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.53Q1 | 1.91 0.30 up from 2018 | 100 | 20% | $2,500 | ||
23SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.52Q1 | 2.08 0.45 down from 2018 | 134 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
24Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 1.50Q1 | 1.92 0.78 down from 2018 | 122 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
25Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.49Q1 | 1.92 0.04 up from 2018 | 75 | 37% | $3,190 | ||
26INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 1.45Q1 | 2.09 0.11 down from 2018 | 168 | 31% | — | ||
27Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.41Q1 | 2.69 0.60 up from 2018 | 141 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
28Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.39Q2 | 1.94 0.12 up from 2018 | 203 | 49% | — | ||
29International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.38Q2 | 2.23 1.00 up from 2018 | 46 | 10% | — | ||
30Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.37Q2 | 1.61 0.39 up from 2018 | 109 | 17% | $3,240 | ||
31Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.35Q2 | 1.87 0.71 up from 2018 | 94 | 36% | — | ||
32Pacific Science Review A Natural Science and EngineeringElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.30Q2 | —no 2018 value | 36 | — | — | ||
33Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 2.85 0.88 up from 2018 | 50 | 20% | $2,900 | ||
34Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.27Q2 | 1.77 0.23 up from 2018 | 344 | 33% | $3,270 | ||
35Journal of Educational MeasurementWiley · United Kingdom | 1.26Q2 | 2.02 0.38 up from 2018 | 83 | 17% | $3,040 | ||
36Journal of Construction in Developing CountriesOAPenerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia · Malaysia | 1.25Q2 | 1.29 0.59 up from 2018 | 47 | 100% | — | ||
37ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 1.24Q2 | 2.06 0.55 down from 2018 | 76 | 50% | — | ||
38Journal of MultiDisciplinary EvaluationOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.24Q2 | 2.17 1.30 up from 2018 | 34 | 100% | — | ||
39Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.23Q2 | 1.44 0.94 down from 2018 | 82 | 32% | — | ||
40Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.22Q2 | 1.83 0.86 up from 2018 | 56 | 36% | — | ||
41Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.21Q2 | 1.77 0.46 up from 2018 | 157 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
42Geopolitics History and International RelationsOAUnited States | 1.21Q2 | 0.60 0.16 down from 2018 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
43American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.18Q2 | 1.51 0.19 down from 2018 | 126 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
44Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.74 0.53 up from 2018 | 134 | 28% | — | ||
45IMA Journal of Management MathematicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.10Q2 | 1.06 0.96 down from 2018 | 53 | 39% | $3,718 | ||
46Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 1.58 0.04 up from 2018 | 221 | 20% | $3,190 | ||
47Decision AnalysisInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.00Q2 | 1.67 0.67 up from 2018 | 61 | 23% | — | ||
48International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering SystemsIOS Press · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 2.53 0.91 up from 2018 | 70 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
49Economics Management and Financial MarketsUnited States | 0.97Q2 | 1.21 0.85 up from 2018 | 102 | 0% | — | ||
50Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.19 0.04 up from 2018 | 446 | 43% | $2,720 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research105
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty42
- Information Systems and Management34
- General Decision Sciences6
Journals
Citations made in 2019. Corpus-wide, 83.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
34 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 2016–2018, 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: 2019. Publication window: 2016–2018. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 48,061 +2.1% from indicator year 2016
- Median OJR
- 0.95 -3.2% from indicator year 2016
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2016–2018 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.