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Operations Research Letters is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), ABDC B, ABS / AJG 2, WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier.
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ISSN 0167-6377Verify ISSN ↗1872-7468Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier
Cost to publish: About US$2,960 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Mathematics | 380 / 680 | 44th | Q3 |
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 245 / 425 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Software | 360 / 503 | 28th | Q3 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 167 / 225 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Operations Research Letters is Q3 in Applied Mathematics (rank 380 of 680), Q3 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 245 of 425) and Q3 in Software (rank 360 of 503), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Operations Research Letters is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.572, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 89.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,960 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 Letters is published by Elsevier. Its print ISSN is 0167-6377 and its online ISSN is 1872-7468.
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.
It is rated B in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Strategy, management and organisational behaviour.
It is graded 2 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 Letters has an h-index of 122 and a 2-year mean of 0.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #327 of 621 Scopus journals in Applied Mathematics.
Operations Research Letters published 110 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 159. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (29.9%), United States (23.9%) and France (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.2 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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