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Journal of Operations Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.2), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SCIE/SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
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ISSN 0272-6963Verify ISSN ↗1873-1317Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Cost to publish: About US$3,520 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management Science and Operations Research | 10 / 225 | 95th | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 25 / 506 | 95th | Q1 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 23 / 425 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1980–1991), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.2.
Journal of Operations Management is Q1 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 10 of 225), Q1 in Strategy and Management (rank 25 of 506) and Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 23 of 425), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Operations Management is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 17.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.334, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 238.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,520 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Operations Management is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0272-6963 and its online ISSN is 1873-1317.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 4* in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Operations Management has an h-index of 276 and a 2-year mean of 7.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 209 Scopus journals in Management Science and Operations Research.
Journal of Operations Management published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 79. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (55.2%), China (10.6%) and United Kingdom (7.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (2.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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