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Operations Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 6.4), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4*, WoS SCIE/SSCI, FT50, UT Dallas 24. Published by INFORMS.
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ISSN 0030-364XVerify ISSN ↗1526-5463Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: INFORMS
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Science Applications | 283 / 1022 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 69 / 225 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 6.4.
Operations Research is Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 283 of 1022) and Q2 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 69 of 225), by CiteScore 2025.
Operations Research 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 6.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 72nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.759, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 173.
Operations Research is published by INFORMS. Its print ISSN is 0030-364X and its online ISSN is 1526-5463.
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 Research and Management Science field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Operations Research has an h-index of 305 and a 2-year mean of 3.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #297 of 818 Scopus journals in Computer Science Applications.
Operations Research published 161 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 252. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (50.3%), China (13.2%) and Canada (6.2%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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