Journal rankings · indicator year 2020
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Subfield ranking · 2020
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2020
104 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 104 ranked journals in 2020. The median OJR fell 0.09 on 2019 to 0.86, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.46. The top three are Decision Making Applications in Management and Engineering, International Journal of Project Management, and Omega.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2020. 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 2017–2019, the window the 2020 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)
104 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 2019. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2017–2019, the window the 2020 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2017–2019 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 2011 to 2020. | Compare |
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| 5.38Q1 | 9.28 3.43 down from 2019 | 46 | 100% | — | |||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 5.22Q1 | 8.92 0.21 down from 2019 | 238 | 39% | $3,200 | ||
3OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.59Q1 | 6.38 0.51 up from 2019 | 419 | 25% | $4,030 | ||
4Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.94Q1 | 4.90 1.35 up from 2019 | 145 | 49% | $3,900 | ||
5International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.92Q1 | 4.85 1.06 up from 2019 | 320 | 48% | $2,800 | ||
6Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.72Q1 | 7.24 2.76 up from 2019 | 236 | 20% | — | ||
7Operations Research PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.50Q1 | 4.53 1.85 up from 2019 | 96 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
8Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.43Q1 | 3.32 0.48 down from 2019 | 203 | 30% | $3,550 | ||
9Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q1 | 3.38 0.24 up from 2019 | 175 | 49% | — | ||
10International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.00Q1 | 2.00 0.23 down from 2019 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
11Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.96Q1 | 3.85 0.26 up from 2019 | 357 | 28% | — | ||
12Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.92Q1 | 3.08 0.33 up from 2019 | 313 | 32% | — | ||
13SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.73Q1 | 3.65 1.57 up from 2019 | 151 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
14Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.70Q1 | 3.20 1.42 up from 2019 | 120 | 28% | $2,390 | ||
15Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.69Q1 | 3.09 0.24 up from 2019 | 1,071 | 33% | $3,090 | ||
16British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.69Q1 | 3.08 0.19 up from 2019 | 100 | 46% | $3,400 | ||
17Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.64Q1 | 3.80 2.04 down from 2019 | 166 | 22% | $2,390 | ||
18Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.59Q1 | 2.68 0.19 up from 2019 | 523 | 27% | — | ||
19International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.58Q1 | 2.73 0.35 down from 2019 | 201 | 21% | — | ||
20EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.57Q1 | 3.20 1.42 up from 2019 | 104 | 36% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.56Q1 | 1.89 0.06 up from 2019 | 62 | 22% | — | ||
22Economics Management and Financial MarketsUnited States | 1.54Q1 | 2.89 1.68 up from 2019 | 91 | 0% | — | ||
23Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social SciencesOAUniversity of Arizona Libraries · United States | 1.51Q1 | 0.43 0.51 down from 2019 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
24Journal of MultiDisciplinary EvaluationOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.49Q1 | 1.00 1.17 down from 2019 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
25Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.49Q1 | 2.27 0.58 up from 2019 | 71 | 3% | — | ||
26International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.46Q1 | 2.51 0.17 up from 2019 | 179 | 18% | — | ||
27Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.46Q2 | 1.93 0.01 up from 2019 | 79 | 5% | $3,190 | ||
28Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.44Q2 | 1.99 0.23 up from 2019 | 294 | 38% | $3,270 | ||
29Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.40Q2 | 2.61 0.70 up from 2019 | 96 | 33% | $2,500 | ||
30Construction Economics and BuildingOAUTS ePRESS · Australia | 1.39Q2 | 1.88 0.53 down from 2019 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
31Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.38Q2 | 2.54 0.15 down from 2019 | 126 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
32INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 1.36Q2 | 2.48 0.39 up from 2019 | 179 | 34% | — | ||
33InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.27Q2 | 3.31 0.95 down from 2019 | 123 | 100% | — | ||
34Asian Journal of Applied Science and EngineeringBangladesh | 1.18Q2 | 4.00 2.73 up from 2019 | 40 | 86% | — | ||
35Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.18Q2 | 1.94 0.91 down from 2019 | 71 | 13% | $2,900 | ||
36American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.15Q2 | 2.13 0.62 up from 2019 | 104 | 28% | $3,650 | ||
37Geopolitics History and International RelationsOAUnited States | 1.11Q2 | 1.81 1.21 up from 2019 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
38Theoretical EconomicsOAEconometric Society · United States | 1.09Q2 | 1.28 0.64 down from 2019 | 129 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
39Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.08Q2 | 2.00 0.42 up from 2019 | 251 | 28% | $3,190 | ||
40Advances in Fuzzy SystemsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.24 0.47 up from 2019 | 77 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
41Mathematics of Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.05Q2 | 1.53 0.41 down from 2019 | 182 | 48% | — | ||
42Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.05Q2 | 1.72 0.15 down from 2019 | 116 | 51% | — | ||
43Systemic Practice and Action ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.04Q2 | 1.52 0.06 up from 2019 | 100 | 33% | $3,290 | ||
44Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 2.24 0.50 up from 2019 | 152 | 27% | — | ||
45Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 1.02Q2 | 1.26 0.35 down from 2019 | 145 | 18% | $3,240 | ||
46Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.97Q2 | 1.83 0.06 up from 2019 | 137 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
47Games and Economic BehaviorElsevier BV · United States | 0.94Q2 | 1.32 0.13 up from 2019 | 461 | 46% | $2,720 | ||
48Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 0.91Q2 | 2.38 0.53 up from 2019 | 150 | 14% | — | ||
49ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer SimulationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.85 0.21 down from 2019 | 75 | 34% | — | ||
50ACM Transactions on Economics and ComputationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.78 1.33 up from 2019 | 54 | 41% | — |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research104
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty41
- Information Systems and Management34
- General Decision Sciences6
Journals
Citations made in 2020. Corpus-wide, 86.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
35 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 2017–2019, 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: 2020. Publication window: 2017–2019. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 104
- Window papers (baseline)
- 51,107 +8.7% from indicator year 2017
- Median OJR
- 0.86 -5.9% from indicator year 2017
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2017–2019 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.