Journal rankings · indicator year 2021
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Subfield ranking · 2021
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2021
107 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 107 ranked journals in 2021. The median journal has an OJR of 0.89, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2020; Q1 starts at OJR 1.37. The top three are Decision Making Applications in Management and Engineering, International Journal of Project Management, and Omega.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2021. 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 2018–2020, the window the 2021 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)
107 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 2020. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2018–2020, the window the 2021 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2018–2020 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 2012 to 2021. | Compare |
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| 5.18Q1 | 13.76 4.47 up from 2020 | 62 | 100% | — | |||
2International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 9.90 0.97 up from 2020 | 178 | 38% | $3,200 | ||
3OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.54Q1 | 6.82 0.44 up from 2020 | 433 | 35% | $4,030 | ||
4International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.15Q1 | 6.51 1.66 up from 2020 | 378 | 45% | $2,800 | ||
5Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.86Q1 | 5.82 0.92 up from 2020 | 141 | 42% | $3,900 | ||
6Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.53Q1 | 5.50 2.18 up from 2020 | 317 | 38% | $3,550 | ||
7Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.37Q1 | 6.39 0.86 down from 2020 | 291 | 20% | — | ||
8Economics Management and Financial MarketsUnited States | 2.26Q1 | 6.40 3.51 up from 2020 | 73 | 4% | — | ||
9Operations Research PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.08Q1 | 3.93 0.61 down from 2020 | 108 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
10Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.98Q1 | 4.37 0.99 up from 2020 | 162 | 56% | — | ||
11Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.96Q1 | 4.65 1.56 up from 2020 | 1,069 | 43% | $3,090 | ||
12Geopolitics History and International RelationsOAUnited States | 1.86Q1 | 4.72 2.92 up from 2020 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
13Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.84Q1 | 4.62 0.78 up from 2020 | 484 | 24% | — | ||
14International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.80Q1 | 3.85 1.13 up from 2020 | 218 | 28% | — | ||
15SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.74Q1 | 4.76 1.10 up from 2020 | 152 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
16International Journal of TestingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.72Q1 | 4.50 2.50 up from 2020 | 37 | 13% | — | ||
17Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 1.67Q1 | 4.46 0.67 up from 2020 | 169 | 23% | $2,390 | ||
18Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.64Q1 | 3.09 0.56 up from 2020 | 133 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
19International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 1.52Q1 | 4.22 1.71 up from 2020 | 197 | 12% | — | ||
20British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical PsychologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.49Q1 | 3.30 0.22 up from 2020 | 91 | 31% | $3,400 | ||
21Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.48Q1 | 2.43 0.16 up from 2020 | 73 | 17% | — | ||
22Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.45Q1 | 3.59 1.91 up from 2020 | 98 | 32% | — | ||
23Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.44Q1 | 3.08 0.12 down from 2020 | 152 | 43% | $2,390 | ||
24Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.43Q1 | 3.28 0.60 up from 2020 | 536 | 32% | — | ||
25Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.43Q1 | 2.66 0.42 down from 2020 | 336 | 28% | — | ||
26Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.40Q1 | 2.96 1.03 up from 2020 | 65 | 36% | $3,190 | ||
27Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.37Q1 | 2.49 0.60 up from 2020 | 70 | 19% | — | ||
28EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.35Q2 | 2.05 1.15 down from 2020 | 106 | 52% | $3,650 | ||
29InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.34Q2 | 3.56 0.25 up from 2020 | 134 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.33Q2 | 2.68 0.06 up from 2020 | 95 | 30% | $2,500 | ||
31American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.27Q2 | 3.02 0.89 up from 2020 | 89 | 27% | $3,650 | ||
| 1.26Q2 | 2.77 0.70 up from 2020 | 239 | 24% | $3,190 | |||
33Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q2 | 2.71 0.71 up from 2020 | 240 | 24% | $3,190 | ||
34Journal of Mega Infrastructure & Sustainable DevelopmentTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.22Q2 | 2.42 4.46 down from 2020 | 33 | — | — | ||
35Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 2.94 0.70 up from 2020 | 152 | 20% | — | ||
36Futures & Foresight ScienceWiley · United States | 1.12Q2 | 2.62 0.38 down from 2020 | 52 | 45% | $3,460 | ||
37INFORMS Journal on OptimizationOAInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.11Q2 | 2.16 0.02 down from 2020 | 36 | 100% | — | ||
38Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.10Q2 | 2.01 0.02 up from 2020 | 284 | 43% | $3,270 | ||
39Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 2.75 0.81 up from 2020 | 66 | 35% | $2,900 | ||
40INFORMS journal on computingInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences | 1.06Q2 | 2.56 0.07 up from 2020 | 225 | 27% | — | ||
41Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and ConstructionAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 1.03Q2 | 2.57 0.19 up from 2020 | 195 | 13% | — | ||
42EURO Journal on Decision ProcessesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.03Q2 | 2.35 1.11 up from 2020 | 37 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
43Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.01Q2 | 1.49 0.23 down from 2020 | 125 | 48% | — | ||
44ForecastingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.00Q2 | 3.58 1.58 up from 2020 | 44 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
45Construction Economics and BuildingOAUTS ePRESS · Australia | 1.00Q2 | 2.00 0.12 up from 2020 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
46Grey Systems Theory and ApplicationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 2.59 0.28 up from 2020 | 141 | 0% | — | ||
47Systemic Practice and Action ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.99Q2 | 1.89 0.37 up from 2020 | 108 | 52% | $3,290 | ||
48ACM Transactions on Economics and ComputationAssociation for Computing Machinery · United States | 0.98Q2 | 2.50 0.73 up from 2020 | 60 | 48% | — | ||
49Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 1.62 0.36 up from 2020 | 203 | 16% | $3,240 | ||
50Advances in Fuzzy SystemsOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.94Q2 | 2.08 0.16 down from 2020 | 86 | 100% | $1,000 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research107
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty42
- Information Systems and Management33
- General Decision Sciences6
Journals
Citations made in 2021. Corpus-wide, 87.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
33 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 2018–2020, 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: 2021. Publication window: 2018–2020. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 107
- Window papers (baseline)
- 55,003 +18.0% from indicator year 2018
- Median OJR
- 0.89 +6.6% from indicator year 2018
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2018–2020 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.