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title: "Operations Research journal rankings by citations"
description: "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."
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# 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.

By category: [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/finance.md) · [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/accounting.md) · [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/economics.md) · [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/management.md) · [Marketing](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/marketing.md) · [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/tourism-and-hospitality.md) · [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/higher-education-and-research.md) · [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research.md) · [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/statistics.md) · [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/ai.md)

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-production-economics.md) | 10.36 | 295 | 6,997 | 325 | 46,811 | Elsevier BV |
| 2 | [Decision Analytics Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/decision-analytics-journal.md) | 9.75 | 59 | 335 | 120 | 6,009 | Elsevier BV |
| 3 | [Transportation Research Part E Logistics and Transportation Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review.md) | 8.83 | 190 | 3,187 | 555 | 29,402 | Elsevier BV |
| 4 | [Supply Chain Analytics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/supply-chain-analytics.md) | 8.44 | 27 | 82 | 86 | 1,057 | Elsevier BV |
| 5 | [Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-c-emerging-technologies.md) | 8.25 | 237 | 4,085 | 415 | 42,920 | Elsevier BV |
| 6 | [Computers & Industrial Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-industrial-engineering.md) | 8.03 | 204 | 8,297 | 848 | 51,935 | Elsevier BV |
| 7 | [Omega](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/omega.md) | 6.82 | 213 | 2,996 | 183 | 16,648 | Elsevier BV |
| 8 | [Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/cleaner-logistics-and-supply-chain.md) | 6.62 | 45 | 165 | 93 | 1,904 | Elsevier BV |
| 9 | [Socio-Economic Planning Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/socio-economic-planning-sciences.md) | 6.54 | 109 | 1,538 | 216 | 9,239 | Elsevier BV |
| 10 | [Operations Management Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-management-research.md) | 6.41 | 66 | 378 | 44 | 3,575 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 11 | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 6.33 | 413 | 17,168 | 608 | 81,690 | Elsevier BV |
| 12 | [Transportation Research Part B Methodological](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-b-methodological.md) | 6.29 | 231 | 3,134 | 145 | 22,329 | Elsevier BV |
| 13 | [Computers & Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-operations-research.md) | 5.34 | 226 | 5,483 | 334 | 23,412 | Elsevier BV |
| 14 | [Journal of Air Transport Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-air-transport-management.md) | 5.26 | 125 | 1,858 | 172 | 8,702 | Elsevier BV |
| 15 | [Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/fuzzy-optimization-and-decision-making.md) | 5.12 | 75 | 399 | 32 | 1,548 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 16 | [Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation-research-part-a-policy-and-practice.md) | 5.04 | 219 | 3,666 | 392 | 29,358 | Elsevier BV |
| 17 | [Annals of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/annals-of-operations-research.md) | 4.22 | 186 | 5,354 | 540 | 28,797 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 18 | [Transportation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/transportation.md) | 4.09 | 158 | 1,607 | 137 | 9,454 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 19 | [Public Transport](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/public-transport.md) | 4.00 | 48 | 239 | 32 | 1,293 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 20 | [OR Spectrum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/or-spectrum.md) | 3.77 | 101 | 812 | 40 | 2,463 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 21 | [Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/flexible-services-and-manufacturing-journal.md) | 3.58 | 56 | 338 | 60 | 1,624 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 22 | [Group Decision and Negotiation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/group-decision-and-negotiation.md) | 3.04 | 89 | 764 | 46 | 1,894 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 23 | [Research in Transportation Business & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/research-in-transportation-business-management.md) | 3.01 | 70 | 710 | 258 | 4,859 | Elsevier BV |
| 24 | [Operations Research Perspectives](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-perspectives.md) | 2.94 | 43 | 163 | 50 | 1,234 | Elsevier BV |
| 25 | [Central European Journal of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/central-european-journal-of-operations-research.md) | 2.90 | 54 | 465 | 58 | 1,640 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 26 | [Journal of Scheduling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-scheduling.md) | 2.65 | 84 | 655 | 34 | 1,799 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 27 | [Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operational-research.md) | 2.58 | 49 | 532 | 117 | 2,150 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 28 | [Mathematical Programming Computation](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming-computation.md) | 2.54 | 57 | 188 | 26 | 2,669 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 29 | [Journal of Heuristics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-heuristics.md) | 2.54 | 92 | 574 | 37 | 1,679 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 30 | [Operations Research Forum](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-forum.md) | 2.46 | 25 | 81 | 193 | 992 | Springer Nature |
| 31 | [Health Care Management Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/health-care-management-science.md) | 2.44 | 86 | 697 | 45 | 2,037 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 32 | [Computational Optimization and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-optimization-and-applications.md) | 2.39 | 110 | 1,330 | 116 | 4,359 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 33 | [Top](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/top.md) | 2.25 | 51 | 328 | 20 | 734 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 34 | [Journal of Global Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-global-optimization.md) | 2.24 | 124 | 1,948 | 122 | 8,589 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 35 | [Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-rail-transport-planning-management.md) | 2.21 | 40 | 186 | 46 | 906 | Elsevier BV |
| 36 | [Optimization and Engineering](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-and-engineering.md) | 2.06 | 67 | 556 | 123 | 2,221 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 37 | [Mathematical Programming](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-programming.md) | 2.01 | 241 | 3,604 | 138 | 14,910 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 38 | [Mathematical Methods of Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/mathematical-methods-of-operations-research.md) | 1.98 | 76 | 931 | 29 | 1,430 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 39 | [Networks and Spatial Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/networks-and-spatial-economics.md) | 1.97 | 79 | 503 | 57 | 1,763 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 40 | [Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-optimization-theory-and-applications.md) | 1.85 | 154 | 4,182 | 323 | 9,173 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 41 | [Computational Management Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computational-management-science.md) | 1.75 | 52 | 231 | 24 | 857 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 42 | [Queueing Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/queueing-systems.md) | 1.28 | 90 | 1,017 | 32 | 1,191 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 43 | [Journal of Combinatorial Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-combinatorial-optimization.md) | 1.28 | 66 | 916 | 129 | 2,172 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 44 | [Optimization Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/optimization-letters.md) | 1.18 | 65 | 877 | 90 | 2,693 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 45 | [Journal of the Operations Research Society of China](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-the-operations-research-society-of-china.md) | 1.10 | 28 | 115 | 86 | 705 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 46 | [4OR](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/4or.md) | 1.09 | 57 | 258 | 26 | 790 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 47 | [Operations Research Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/operations-research-letters.md) | 1.01 | 122 | 1,958 | 110 | 4,114 | Elsevier BV |
| 48 | [Methodology And Computing In Applied Probability](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/methodology-and-computing-in-applied-probability.md) | 0.91 | 51 | 401 | 100 | 1,033 | Springer Science+Business Media |
| 49 | [Discrete Optimization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/discrete-optimization.md) | 0.64 | 50 | 309 | 26 | 826 | Elsevier BV |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Operations Research journal rankings by citations. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 31, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Operations Research journal rankings by citations},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/operations-research}},
  urldate = {2026-10-31},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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