Journal of the Operational Research Society

*Journal of the Operational Research Society*
Discipline	Operations research, management
Language	English
Edited by	Zhe George Zhang, Said Salhi, Martin H. Kunc, John Boylan
Publication details
Former name(s)	Operational Research Quarterly
History	1950-present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.175 (2019)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	J. Oper. Res. Soc.
Indexing;
CODEN	JORSDZ
ISSN	0160-5682 (print); 1476-9360 (web);
OCLC no.	03685489
Links
	Journal homepage; Journal submission site;

The Journal of the Operational Research Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering operations research. It is an official journal of The Operational Research Society and has been in existence since 1950. It publishes full length case-oriented papers, full length theoretical papers, technical notes, discussions (viewpoints) and book reviews.

History[]

The journal began as Operational Research Quarterly in 1950. At that time it was published by the Operational Research Club (Great Britain).^[1] It was published four times a year until 1978 (from 1953–1969 under the title OR) when it became a monthly publication and the name was changed to Journal of the Operational Research Society.

Abstracting and indexing[]

The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI/INFORM, Compendex, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences, Inspec, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH.

Scope[]

Some idea of the scope and contents of the journal can be found in a survey of papers published during the period 2000-2009.^[2]

51.7% of papers were theoretical while 31.3% were case-orientated.

References[]

^ British Library Integrated Catalogue
^ Katsaliaki, K.; Mustafee, N.; Dwivedi, Y. K.; Williams, T.; Wilson, J. M. (2010). "A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society". Journal of the Operational Research Society. 61: 82–94. doi:10.1057/jors.2009.137. hdl:10036/4348.

External links[]

Official website

[1] British Library Integrated Catalogue

[2] Katsaliaki, K.; Mustafee, N.; Dwivedi, Y. K.; Williams, T.; Wilson, J. M. (2010). "A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society". Journal of the Operational Research Society. 61: 82–94. doi:10.1057/jors.2009.137. hdl:10036/4348.

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