Journal rankings · indicator year 2024
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Subfield ranking · 2024
Management Science and Operations Research journal rankings 2024
105 ranked journals · Subfield in Decision Sciences
Management Science and Operations Research has 105 ranked journals in 2024. The median journal has an OJR of 0.80, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2023; Q1 starts at OJR 1.24. The top three are Journal of Intelligent Management Decision, Decision Analytics Journal, and Project Leadership and Society.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2024. 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 2021–2023, the window the 2024 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 2023. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2021–2023, the window the 2024 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2021–2023 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 2015 to 2024. | Compare |
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1Journal of Intelligent Management DecisionPublisher not listed | 4.40Q1 | 9.58 0.69 down from 2023 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
2Decision Analytics JournalOAElsevier BV · United States | 4.38Q1 | 11.66 0.78 up from 2023 | 315 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
3Project Leadership and SocietyOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.52Q1 | 7.82 0.25 down from 2023 | 90 | 100% | $2,270 | ||
4International Journal of Project ManagementElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.32Q1 | 7.98 0.88 down from 2023 | 198 | 76% | $3,200 | ||
5OmegaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.99Q1 | 8.26 0.11 up from 2023 | 389 | 44% | $4,030 | ||
| 2.92Q1 | 6.08 5.76 down from 2023 | 143 | 100% | — | |||
7Socio-Economic Planning SciencesElsevier BV · United States | 2.92Q1 | 6.11 1.18 down from 2023 | 597 | 50% | $3,550 | ||
8Journal of Computational and Cognitive EngineeringOAPublisher not listed | 2.77Q1 | 7.77 4.87 down from 2023 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
9International Journal of ForecastingElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.53Q1 | 5.56 0.81 up from 2023 | 307 | 70% | $2,800 | ||
10Annals of Operations ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 2.45Q1 | 5.54 0.24 down from 2023 | 1,778 | 39% | $3,090 | ||
11Journal of Management in EngineeringAmerican Society of Civil Engineers · United States | 2.45Q1 | 6.43no change | 316 | 20% | — | ||
12Project Management JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.44Q1 | 5.00 0.90 down from 2023 | 131 | 62% | $3,900 | ||
13Granular ComputingSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.30Q1 | 7.46 0.02 down from 2023 | 180 | 11% | $2,390 | ||
14SystemsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.89Q1 | 4.65 1.19 up from 2023 | 940 | 100% | $2,896 | ||
15International Journal of Managing Projects in BusinessEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.85Q1 | 4.41 0.37 up from 2023 | 131 | 31% | — | ||
16Engineering Construction & Architectural ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 4.81 0.11 up from 2023 | 767 | 13% | — | ||
17Reports in Mechanical EngineeringOASerbia | 1.68Q1 | 5.89 3.66 down from 2023 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
18Construction Management and EconomicsTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.64Q1 | 3.93 0.12 down from 2023 | 187 | 67% | — | ||
19Linguistic and Philosophical InvestigationsOARomania | 1.60Q1 | 4.46 2.90 down from 2023 | 49 | 100% | — | ||
20ForecastingOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.59Q1 | 4.89 0.65 up from 2023 | 146 | 100% | $2,172 | ||
21Group Decision and NegotiationSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.58Q1 | 3.14 0.84 down from 2023 | 139 | 41% | $2,390 | ||
22EURO Journal on Decision ProcessesOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.56Q1 | 2.61 1.39 down from 2023 | 32 | 100% | $1,400 | ||
23Operations Research PerspectivesOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.56Q1 | 5.34 0.44 up from 2023 | 95 | 100% | $1,790 | ||
24Educational and Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.53Q1 | 2.90 0.43 up from 2023 | 153 | 100% | $3,650 | ||
25Economics Management and Financial MarketsUnited States | 1.41Q1 | 1.97 4.98 down from 2023 | 61 | 12% | — | ||
26Operational ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.25Q1 | 3.09 0.10 down from 2023 | 191 | 22% | $3,190 | ||
27Built Environment Project and Asset ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.24Q1 | 3.26 0.39 up from 2023 | 155 | 34% | — | ||
28Journal of Financial Management of Property and ConstructionEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.24Q2 | 2.71 0.53 up from 2023 | 76 | 29% | — | ||
29InformaticaIOS Press · Lithuania | 1.23Q2 | 3.28 0.87 down from 2023 | 107 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of the Operational Research SocietyPalgrave Macmillan · United Kingdom | 1.20Q2 | 3.07 0.29 up from 2023 | 435 | 25% | — | ||
31Systemic Practice and Action ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.17Q2 | 2.32 0.58 up from 2023 | 100 | 69% | $3,290 | ||
32Operations ResearchInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences · United States | 1.16Q2 | 2.67 0.56 up from 2023 | 555 | 10% | — | ||
33Construction Economics and BuildingOAUTS ePRESS · Australia | 1.15Q2 | 1.74 1.54 down from 2023 | 65 | 100% | — | ||
34Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision AnalysisWiley · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 3.50 1.05 up from 2023 | 63 | 55% | $2,900 | ||
35Journal of Educational and Behavioral StatisticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.12Q2 | 2.39 0.05 down from 2023 | 92 | 27% | $2,500 | ||
36Insurance Mathematics and EconomicsElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.08Q2 | 2.26 0.49 up from 2023 | 272 | 56% | $3,270 | ||
37Grey Systems Theory and ApplicationEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.08Q2 | 3.61 0.06 up from 2023 | 100 | 3% | — | ||
38EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.07Q2 | 2.11 0.43 down from 2023 | 97 | 53% | $3,650 | ||
| 1.01Q2 | 2.80 0.28 up from 2023 | 212 | 66% | $3,190 | |||
40IMA Journal of Management MathematicsOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.99Q2 | 3.23 0.55 up from 2023 | 93 | 27% | $3,718 | ||
41System Dynamics ReviewWiley · United Kingdom | 0.96Q2 | 2.61 0.51 up from 2023 | 67 | 68% | $3,270 | ||
42Journal of Productivity AnalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.96Q2 | 2.04 0.39 down from 2023 | 121 | 65% | $3,190 | ||
43Scandinavian Actuarial JournalTaylor & Francis · Sweden | 0.94Q2 | 1.64 0.12 up from 2023 | 124 | 54% | — | ||
44International Journal of Information Technology & Decision MakingWorld Scientific · Singapore | 0.91Q2 | 2.05 0.48 down from 2023 | 280 | 0% | — | ||
45Journal of SimulationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.90Q2 | 2.48 0.50 up from 2023 | 111 | 57% | — | ||
46Applied Measurement in EducationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.89Q2 | 1.93 0.45 up from 2023 | 62 | 27% | — | ||
47American Journal of EvaluationSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.88Q2 | 1.84 0.21 down from 2023 | 126 | 56% | $3,650 | ||
48Computational Management ScienceSpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 0.88Q2 | 2.32 0.53 up from 2023 | 109 | 42% | $3,190 | ||
49Educational Measurement Issues and PracticeWiley · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 1.61 0.39 down from 2023 | 131 | 60% | $3,240 | ||
50Applied Psychological MeasurementSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.83Q2 | 1.59 0.32 up from 2023 | 108 | 100% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Decision Sciences, with Management Science and Operations Research highlighted.
- Management Science and Operations Research105
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty42
- Information Systems and Management32
- General Decision Sciences6
Journals
Citations made in 2024. Corpus-wide, 87.1% 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 2021–2023, 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: 2024. Publication window: 2021–2023. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 105
- Window papers (baseline)
- 62,136 +13.0% from indicator year 2021
- Median OJR
- 0.80 -9.7% from indicator year 2021
- Rising journals (2025)
- 0
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2021–2023 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.