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Operations Research Letters

Elsevier B.V. · Netherlands

ISSN0167-6377eISSN1872-7468

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.572

H-Indexi

121

SNIPi

0.678

Total Worksi

4,329

Total Citationsi

93,884

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.82

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Operations Research & Management Science; Applied Mathematics; Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering; Management Science and Operations Research; Software.

General Information

Country / RegionNetherlands

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencySix No. A Year

StatusActive

Total Publications4,329

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelHybrid

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

⚡ Hybrid journal — subscription model available.

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier B.V.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0167-6377 / 1872-7468

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

120

966

2019

159

1.1k

2020

144

699

2021

129

516

2022

125

465

2023

118

239

2024

110

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Applied MathematicsQ2

Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringQ2

Management Science and Operations ResearchQ2

SoftwareQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Operations Research & Management Science

Scopus Categories

Industrial and Manufacturing EngineeringApplied MathematicsManagement Science and Operations ResearchSoftware

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Optimization and Search ProblemsAdvanced Queuing Theory AnalysisScheduling and Optimization AlgorithmsAdvanced Optimization Algorithms ResearchSupply Chain and Inventory Management

Frequently asked questions about Operations Research Letters

Is Operations Research Letters a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Operations Research Letters: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Operations Research Letters?

Operations Research Letters is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.82.

Is Operations Research Letters indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Operations Research Letters is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Operations Research Letters?