Operations Research journal rankings by citations

The 49 tracked operations research journals ranked by 2-year mean citedness, with their h-index, i10-index and papers and citations in 2025. 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

Among the 49 tracked operations research journals, International Journal of Production Economics has the highest 2-year mean citedness in OpenAlex (10.36), followed by Decision Analytics Journal (9.75) and Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review (8.83).
By h-index, European Journal of Operational Research leads with 413.
Computers & Industrial Engineering published the most papers in 2025 (848).

Tracked operations research journals by 2-year mean citedness (OpenAlex)
#	Journal	2-year citedness	h-index	i10-index	Papers 2025	Citations 2025	Publisher
1	International Journal of Production Economics	10.36	295	6,997	325	46,811	Elsevier BV
2	Decision Analytics Journal	9.75	59	335	120	6,009	Elsevier BV
3	Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review	8.83	190	3,187	555	29,402	Elsevier BV
4	Supply Chain Analytics	8.44	27	82	86	1,057	Elsevier BV
5	Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies	8.25	237	4,085	415	42,920	Elsevier BV
6	Computers & Industrial Engineering	8.03	204	8,297	848	51,935	Elsevier BV
7	Omega	6.82	213	2,996	183	16,648	Elsevier BV
8	Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain	6.62	45	165	93	1,904	Elsevier BV
9	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	6.54	109	1,538	216	9,239	Elsevier BV
10	Operations Management Research	6.41	66	378	44	3,575	Springer Science+Business Media
11	European Journal of Operational Research	6.33	413	17,168	608	81,690	Elsevier BV
12	Transportation Research Part B Methodological	6.29	231	3,134	145	22,329	Elsevier BV
13	Computers & Operations Research	5.34	226	5,483	334	23,412	Elsevier BV
14	Journal of Air Transport Management	5.26	125	1,858	172	8,702	Elsevier BV
15	Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making	5.12	75	399	32	1,548	Springer Science+Business Media
16	Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice	5.04	219	3,666	392	29,358	Elsevier BV
17	Annals of Operations Research	4.22	186	5,354	540	28,797	Springer Science+Business Media
18	Transportation	4.09	158	1,607	137	9,454	Springer Science+Business Media
19	Public Transport	4.00	48	239	32	1,293	Springer Science+Business Media
20	OR Spectrum	3.77	101	812	40	2,463	Springer Science+Business Media
21	Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal	3.58	56	338	60	1,624	Springer Science+Business Media
22	Group Decision and Negotiation	3.04	89	764	46	1,894	Springer Science+Business Media
23	Research in Transportation Business & Management	3.01	70	710	258	4,859	Elsevier BV
24	Operations Research Perspectives	2.94	43	163	50	1,234	Elsevier BV
25	Central European Journal of Operations Research	2.90	54	465	58	1,640	Springer Science+Business Media
26	Journal of Scheduling	2.65	84	655	34	1,799	Springer Science+Business Media
27	Operational Research	2.58	49	532	117	2,150	Springer Science+Business Media
28	Mathematical Programming Computation	2.54	57	188	26	2,669	Springer Science+Business Media
29	Journal of Heuristics	2.54	92	574	37	1,679	Springer Science+Business Media
30	Operations Research Forum	2.46	25	81	193	992	Springer Nature
31	Health Care Management Science	2.44	86	697	45	2,037	Springer Science+Business Media
32	Computational Optimization and Applications	2.39	110	1,330	116	4,359	Springer Science+Business Media
33	Top	2.25	51	328	20	734	Springer Science+Business Media
34	Journal of Global Optimization	2.24	124	1,948	122	8,589	Springer Science+Business Media
35	Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management	2.21	40	186	46	906	Elsevier BV
36	Optimization and Engineering	2.06	67	556	123	2,221	Springer Science+Business Media
37	Mathematical Programming	2.01	241	3,604	138	14,910	Springer Science+Business Media
38	Mathematical Methods of Operations Research	1.98	76	931	29	1,430	Springer Science+Business Media
39	Networks and Spatial Economics	1.97	79	503	57	1,763	Springer Science+Business Media
40	Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications	1.85	154	4,182	323	9,173	Springer Science+Business Media
41	Computational Management Science	1.75	52	231	24	857	Springer Science+Business Media
42	Queueing Systems	1.28	90	1,017	32	1,191	Springer Science+Business Media
43	Journal of Combinatorial Optimization	1.28	66	916	129	2,172	Springer Science+Business Media
44	Optimization Letters	1.18	65	877	90	2,693	Springer Science+Business Media
45	Journal of the Operations Research Society of China	1.10	28	115	86	705	Springer Science+Business Media
46	4OR	1.09	57	258	26	790	Springer Science+Business Media
47	Operations Research Letters	1.01	122	1,958	110	4,114	Elsevier BV
48	Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability	0.91	51	401	100	1,033	Springer Science+Business Media
49	Discrete Optimization	0.64	50	309	26	826	Elsevier BV

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