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Operations Research Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer International Publishing AG.
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ISSN 2662-2556Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 53 / 198 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) | 86 / 283 | 69th | Q2 |
| Applied Mathematics | 206 / 680 | 69th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 508 / 1022 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Operations Research Forum is Q2 in Control and Optimization (rank 53 of 198), Q2 in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) (rank 86 of 283) and Q2 in Applied Mathematics (rank 206 of 680), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Operations Research Forum is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2, 73rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.431, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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.
Operations Research Forum is published by Springer International Publishing AG. Its ISSN is 2662-2556.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Operations Research Forum has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 2.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
Operations Research Forum published 193 papers in 2025. 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 India (24.7%), United States (8.8%) and Morocco (6.1%).
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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