Operations Research
Last updated ISSN 0030-364X
Operations Research is published by Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences in business, management and accounting. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Operations Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Supply Chain and Inventory Management
- Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis
- Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms
- Optimization and Search Problems
- Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
- Optimization and Packing Problems
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Optimization and Mathematical Programming
- Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
Key facts
| Publisher | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0030-364X, 1526-5463 |
| Subject area | Business, Management and Accounting |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,512 |
| Publishing since | 1956 |
| Journal website | or.journal.informs.org/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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