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Best Management Science and Operations Research journals

218 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Management Science and Operations Research. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 55 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Sustainable Operations and Computers 50.7 99th Q1 – – Yes
2 Innovation and Green Development 22.8 99th Q1 – B Yes
3 Production Planning and Control 21.2 98th Q1 SCIE A No
4 International Journal of Production Economics 19.5 98th Q1 SCIE A No
5 Operations Management Research 18.6 98th Q1 SSCI C No
6 Decision Making Advances 18.5 97th Q1 – – No
7 International Journal of Production Research 18.1 97th Q1 SCIE A No
8 Research Policy 17.6 96th Q1 SSCI A* No
9 International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications 17.3 96th Q1 SSCI B No
10 Journal of Operations Management 17.2 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
11 Information Processing and Management 16.8 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI – No
12 Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 15.4 94th Q1 SCIE A* No
13 Data Science and Management 14.4 94th Q1 – – Yes
14 Journal of Business Logistics 14.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
15 Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Analytics 14.1 93rd Q1 – – No
16 European Journal of Operational Research 14 93rd Q1 SCIE A* No
17 Omega (United Kingdom) 13.7 92nd Q1 SCIE, SSCI A No
18 Computers and Industrial Engineering 13.5 92nd Q1 SCIE A No
19 Annals of Operations Research 13.4 91st Q1 SCIE A No
20 Journal of Management in Engineering 13.1 91st Q1 SCIE A No
21 Journal of Management Information Systems 12.3 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
22 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 12.1 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
23 Journal of Operations Intelligence 12.1 90th Q1 – – No
24 Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 11.9 89th Q1 SSCI A No
25 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 11.9 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI C No
26 Journal of Manufacturing Processes 11.9 88th Q1 SCIE – No
27 Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing 11.8 87th Q1 ESCI C No
28 Management Science 11.8 87th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* Yes
29 Management Decision 11.6 86th Q1 SSCI B No
30 ENGINEERING Management 11.4 86th Q1 ESCI – No
31 Production and Operations Management 11.3 86th Q1 SCIE A* No
32 International Journal of Engineering Business Management 11.2 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
33 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 10.6 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
34 Knowledge Management Research and Practice 10.3 84th Q1 SSCI A No
35 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.8 84th Q1 – – No
36 Supply Chain Forum 9.6 83rd Q1 ESCI C No
37 International Journal of Lean Six Sigma 9.4 83rd Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
38 Computers and Operations Research 9.2 82nd Q1 SCIE A No
39 Egyptian Informatics Journal 9.1 82nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
40 Research in Transportation Business and Management 8.7 82nd Q1 SSCI B No
41 Operations Research Perspectives 8.5 81st Q1 SCIE – Yes
42 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 8.3 81st Q1 SCIE – No
43 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 8.1 80th Q1 – – Yes
44 Logistics 8.1 80th Q1 ESCI – Yes
45 International Transactions in Operational Research 8.1 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
46 Journal of Safety Science and Resilience 8.1 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
47 Kybernetes 7.7 78th Q1 SCIE – No
48 Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics 7.6 78th Q1 ESCI – Yes
49 Journal of Modelling in Management 7.5 78th Q1 ESCI C No
50 Journal of Global Information Management 7.5 77th Q1 SSCI A No
51 Sport Management Review 7.3 77th Q1 SSCI A No
52 Operational Research 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE C No
53 Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 7.3 76th Q1 SSCI B No
54 International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management 7.2 75th Q1 ESCI C No
55 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 7.2 75th Q1 ESCI – Yes
56 Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 7 74th Q2 SCIE C No
57 Journal of Management Control 6.9 74th Q2 ESCI A No
58 Advances in Decision Sciences 6.9 74th Q2 – – No
59 Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M 6.8 73rd Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
60 Journal of the Operational Research Society 6.7 73rd Q2 SCIE, SSCI A No
61 Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management 6.7 72nd Q2 ESCI B Yes
62 Strategy Science 6.6 72nd Q2 ESCI A No
63 INFORMS Journal on Computing 6.6 71st Q2 SCIE A No
64 Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 6.6 71st Q2 ESCI – Yes
65 Cogent Business and Management 6.5 70th Q2 ESCI C Yes
66 Spectrum of Engineering and Management Sciences 6.5 70th Q2 – – No
67 Public Transport 6.4 70th Q2 ESCI – No
68 Operations Research 6.4 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI A* No
69 INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 6.3 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
70 International Journal of Systems Science: Operations and Logistics 6.1 68th Q2 SCIE C No
71 Engineering Optimization 5.8 68th Q2 SCIE – No
72 Quality Technology and Quantitative Management 5.8 67th Q2 SCIE C No
73 Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management 5.7 67th Q2 ESCI – No
74 Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications 5.6 66th Q2 – – Yes
75 Journal of Managerial Psychology 5.5 66th Q2 SSCI B No
76 IET Networks 5.5 66th Q2 ESCI – Yes
77 IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 5.4 65th Q2 SCIE, SSCI – No
78 Quality and Reliability Engineering International 5.4 65th Q2 SCIE – No
79 Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization 5.4 64th Q2 – – Yes
80 Advances in Production Engineering and Management 5.3 64th Q2 SCIE – No
81 Managerial and Decision Economics 5.3 63rd Q2 SSCI B No
82 Journal of Forecasting 5.1 63rd Q2 SSCI A No
83 Central European Journal of Operations Research 5.1 62nd Q2 SCIE C No
84 EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics 5.1 62nd Q2 ESCI B Yes
85 Journal of Simulation 5.1 62nd Q2 SCIE B No
86 Operations and Supply Chain Management 4.9 61st Q2 ESCI C No
87 Operations Research for Health Care 4.9 61st Q2 – – No
88 Journal of Quality Technology 4.9 60th Q2 SCIE A No
89 Journal of International Logistics and Trade 4.9 60th Q2 – – Yes
90 Service Science 4.8 59th Q2 SSCI B No
91 Mathematics of Operations Research 4.7 59th Q2 SCIE A No
92 4OR 4.6 58th Q2 SCIE B No
93 Journal of Business Analytics 4.5 58th Q2 ESCI C No
94 Naval Research Logistics 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE B No
95 Futures and Foresight Science 4.4 57th Q2 – – No
96 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education 4.3 57th Q2 ESCI – Yes
97 International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering 4.2 56th Q2 – – Yes
98 International Journal of Production Management and Engineering 4.1 56th Q2 ESCI – Yes
99 OR Spectrum 4.1 55th Q2 SCIE B No
100 Computational Management Science 4 55th Q2 ESCI B No
101 Competition and Regulation in Network Industries 4 54th Q2 – B No
102 Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management 4 54th Q2 ESCI – No
103 Journal of Scheduling 3.9 54th Q2 SCIE B No
104 Health Systems 3.9 53rd Q2 ESCI C No
105 Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research 3.8 53rd Q2 ESCI – No
106 Optimization 3.8 52nd Q2 SCIE C No
107 EURO Journal on Computational Optimization 3.8 52nd Q2 ESCI – Yes
108 Business, Management and Economics Engineering 3.8 51st Q2 ESCI – Yes
109 RAIRO - Operations Research 3.8 51st Q2 SCIE – No
110 Journal of Applied Research on Industrial Engineering 3.7 50th Q2 – – Yes
111 Journal of Applied Structural Equation Modeling 3.7 50th Q2 – – Yes
112 International Journal of Emergency Services 3.6 50th Q2 ESCI C No
113 New Directions for Evaluation 3.5 49th Q3 – B No
114 Sustainable Futures 3.5 49th Q3 ESCI C Yes
115 OPSEARCH 3.5 48th Q3 ESCI C No
116 International Journal of Supply and Operations Management 3.5 48th Q3 – – Yes
117 Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administracion 3.4 47th Q3 SSCI – No
118 Journal of Intelligent Decision Making and Information Science 3.4 47th Q3 – – No
119 TOP 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE B No
120 Journal of Heuristics 3.3 46th Q3 SCIE – No
121 Journal of the Operations Research Society of China 3.3 46th Q3 ESCI – No
122 Journal of Global Optimization 3.3 45th Q3 SCIE – No
123 Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management 3.3 45th Q3 ESCI – Yes
124 Fuzzy Information and Engineering 3.1 44th Q3 ESCI – Yes
125 Logistics Research 3.1 44th Q3 – – Yes
126 Critical Military Studies 3 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
127 IFAC Journal of Systems and Control 3 43rd Q3 ESCI – No
128 Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences 3 42nd Q3 SCIE – No
129 Stochastic Systems 2.9 42nd Q3 – – Yes
130 Corporate and Business Strategy Review 2.8 42nd Q3 – – No
131 Journal of Complex Networks 2.8 41st Q3 SCIE – No
132 Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business 2.8 41st Q3 ESCI – Yes
133 Journal of Transportation Security 2.7 40th Q3 ESCI B No
134 LOGI - Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics 2.7 40th Q3 – – Yes
135 International Journal of Construction Supply Chain Management 2.6 39th Q3 – – Yes
136 International Journal of Information Systems in the Service Sector 2.6 39th Q3 ESCI – No
137 INFOR 2.6 38th Q3 SCIE B No
138 Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research 2.6 38th Q3 SCIE – No
139 Logforum 2.6 38th Q3 ESCI – Yes
140 Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 2.6 37th Q3 SCIE A No
141 Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research 2.6 37th Q3 – – Yes
142 INFORMS Transactions on Education 2.5 36th Q3 – C Yes
143 Production 2.5 36th Q3 – – Yes
144 International Journal of Research in Industrial Engineering 2.5 35th Q3 – – Yes
145 Springer Series in Supply Chain Management 2.5 35th Q3 – – No
146 International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management 2.5 34th Q3 – C No
147 Journal of Transportation Engineering and Information 2.4 34th Q3 – – No
148 Neuro-Fuzzy Modeling Techniques in Economics 2.4 34th Q3 – – No
149 Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry 2.4 33rd Q3 SCIE B No
150 International Journal of Product Lifecycle Management 2.3 33rd Q3 – – No
151 International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics 2.3 32nd Q3 SSCI – No
152 Journal of Operational Meteorology 2.3 32nd Q3 ESCI – No
153 International Journal of Business Environment 2.3 31st Q3 ESCI – No
154 Operations Research and Decisions 2.2 31st Q3 ESCI – Yes
155 International Journal for Quality Research 2.2 30th Q3 ESCI – No
156 International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development 2.1 30th Q3 – – No
157 Queueing Systems 2.1 30th Q3 SCIE – No
158 Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics 2.1 29th Q3 – – Yes
159 Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 2.1 29th Q3 SCIE – No
160 International Journal on Food System Dynamics 2 28th Q3 – – Yes
161 WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics 2 28th Q3 – – No
162 Management and Production Engineering Review 1.9 27th Q3 ESCI – No
163 Revista de Administracao Contemporanea 1.9 27th Q3 – – Yes
164 Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research 1.9 26th Q3 – C No
165 Operations Research Letters 1.9 26th Q3 SCIE B No
166 International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences 1.9 26th Q3 – – No
167 Sinergie 1.8 25th Q3 – – Yes
168 SORT 1.8 25th Q3 SCIE – No
169 Contributions to Management Science 1.8 24th Q4 – – No
170 International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics 1.8 24th Q4 – – No
171 International Journal of Advanced Operations Management 1.7 23rd Q4 – – No
172 International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking 1.7 23rd Q4 – – No
173 International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling 1.5 22nd Q4 – – No
174 International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business 1.5 22nd Q4 – – No
175 Journal of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management 1.5 22nd Q4 – – No
176 Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management 1.5 21st Q4 – – No
177 Pesquisa Operacional 1.5 21st Q4 – – No
178 International Journal of Management and Sustainability 1.5 20th Q4 – – No
179 International Journal of Operational Research 1.5 20th Q4 – – No
180 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research 1.4 19th Q4 – – Yes
181 International Journal of Multicriteria Decision Making 1.4 19th Q4 – – No
182 Croatian Operational Research Review 1.4 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
183 International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management 1.4 18th Q4 – – No
184 International Journal of Services and Operations Management 1.4 18th Q4 – – No
185 RAE Revista de Administracao de Empresas 1.4 17th Q4 SSCI C Yes
186 Business Performance Review 1.3 17th Q4 – – No
187 Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response 1.2 16th Q4 – – Yes
188 Multiple Criteria Decision Making 1.1 15th Q4 – – No
189 Tasmimgiri va Tahqiq dar Amaliyyat 1.1 15th Q4 – – Yes
190 International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing 1.1 14th Q4 – B No
191 Jurnal Optimasi Sistem Industri 1.1 13th Q4 – – Yes
192 Queueing Models and Service Management 1 13th Q4 – – No
193 International Series in Operations Research and Management Science 1 12th Q4 – – No
194 Military Operations Research 1 12th Q4 – – No
195 AIRO Springer Series 0.9 11th Q4 – – No
196 Journal of Japan Industrial Management Association 0.9 11th Q4 – – No
197 Acta Cybernetica 0.8 10th Q4 ESCI – No
198 ZWF Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb 0.8 10th Q4 – – No
199 International Journal of Enterprise Network Management 0.8 9th Q4 – B No
200 Military Technical Courier/Vojnotehnicki glasnik 0.7 9th Q4 – – Yes
201 International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management 0.7 8th Q4 – – No
202 Journal of Food Distribution Research 0.7 8th Q4 – – No
203 Advances in Accounting Behavioral Research 0.7 7th Q4 – A No
204 Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan 0.6 6th Q4 – B No
205 Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics International 0.6 6th Q4 – – No
206 Lecture Notes in Operations Research 0.5 5th Q4 – – No
207 Logistics Journal 0.5 5th Q4 – – No
208 Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
209 E3 Journal of Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries 0.2 4th Q4 – – No
210 Journal of Quality 0.2 3rd Q4 – – No
211 Revue Europeenne d' Economie et Management des Services 0.2 3rd Q4 – – No
212 Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics 0.2 2nd Q4 – – No
213 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, SOLI 0.2 2nd Q4 – – No
214 Boletin de Estadistica e Investigacion Operativa 0.1 2nd Q4 – – No
215 Quality Progress 0.1 1st Q4 – – No
216 International Conference on Logistics, LOGISTIQUA 0.1 0th Q4 – – No
217 Operations Management Education Review 0.1 0th Q4 – – No
218 Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering 0.1 0th Q4 – – No

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