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Production and Operations Management is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.3), ABDC A*, ABS / AJG 4, WoS SCIE, FT50, UT Dallas 24. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Sage Publications.
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ISSN 1059-1478Verify ISSN ↗1937-5956Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sage Publications
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | 44 / 425 | 89th | Q1 |
| Management Science and Operations Research | 32 / 225 | 86th | Q1 |
| Management of Technology and Innovation | 51 / 317 | 84th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.3.
Production and Operations Management is Q1 in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (rank 44 of 425), Q1 in Management Science and Operations Research (rank 32 of 225) and Q1 in Management of Technology and Innovation (rank 51 of 317), by CiteScore 2025.
Production and Operations Management 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 11.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.612, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 161.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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.
Production and Operations Management is published by Sage Publications. Its print ISSN is 1059-1478 and its online ISSN is 1937-5956.
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 A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Transportation, logistics and supply chains.
It is graded 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Operations and Technology Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Production and Operations Management has an h-index of 181 and a 2-year mean of 4.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #63 of 359 Scopus journals in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Production and Operations Management published 223 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 315. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (47.2%), China (24.9%) and Hong Kong SAR China (7%).
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.
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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