Journal of the Operational Research Society

The Journal of the Operational Research Society is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering operations research. It is an official journal of the Operational Research Society and publishes full length case-oriented papers, full length theoretical papers, technical notes, discussions (viewpoints) and book reviews. It was established in 1950 as the Operational Research Quarterly (from 1953 to 1969 under the title OR). It was published four times a year until 1978 when it became a monthly publication and the name was changed to Journal of the Operational Research Society.^[1] In 2024, the journal celebrated its 75th anniversary.^[2][3][4]

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Discipline	Operations research, management
Language	English
Edited by	Martin H. Kunc, Said Salhi, Zhe George Zhang, Kostas Nikolopoulos
Publication details
Former name(s)	Operational Research Quarterly
History	1950-present
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Oper. Res. Soc.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0160-5682 (print) 1476-9360 (web)
LCCN	78643148
OCLC no.	03685489
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology
• Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences
• Ei Compendex
• Inspec
• Science Citation Index Expanded
• Social Sciences Citation Index
• Scopus
• Zentralblatt MATH

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 2.7.^[5]