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Journal of the Operational Research Society is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), ABDC A, ABS / AJG 3, WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 0160-5682Verify ISSN ↗1476-9360Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modeling and Simulation | 44 / 397 | 89th | Q1 |
| Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty | 22 / 178 | 87th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 61 / 225 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Strategy and Management | 152 / 506 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Journal of the Operational Research Society is Q1 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 44 of 397), Q1 in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (rank 22 of 178) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 61 of 225), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of the Operational Research Society 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.831, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 134.
Journal of the Operational Research Society is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 0160-5682 and its online ISSN is 1476-9360.
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 3 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of the Operational Research Society has an h-index of 287 and a 2-year mean of 2.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 323 Scopus journals in Modeling and Simulation.
Journal of the Operational Research Society published 213 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 224. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (32.9%), United Kingdom (13.4%) and United States (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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