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Operations Research Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2214-7160Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statistics and Probability | 11 / 303 | 96th | Q1 |
| Control and Optimization | 9 / 198 | 95th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 42 / 225 | 81st | Q1 |
| Strategy and Management | 110 / 506 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.5.
Operations Research Perspectives is Q1 in Statistics and Probability (rank 11 of 303), Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 9 of 198) and Q1 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 42 of 225), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Operations Research Perspectives 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 8.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.888, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,790 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 Perspectives is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2214-7160.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Operations Research Perspectives has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 2.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 294 Scopus journals in Statistics and Probability.
Operations Research Perspectives published 50 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 82 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (21.3%), Iran (7.3%) and Spain (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (2.6 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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