Journal of the Operational Research Society
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| Former name(s) | Operational Research Quarterly |
| Abbreviated title (ISO 4) | J. Oper. Res. Soc. |
| Discipline | Operations research, management |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Tom Archibald, Jonathan Crook |
| Publication details | |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publication history | 1950-present |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Impact factor (2009) |
1.009 |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0160-5682 (print) 1476-9360 (web) |
| CODEN | JORSDZ |
| OCLC number | 03685489 |
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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-orientated papers, full length theoretical papers, technical notes, discussions (viewpoints) and book reviews.
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History [edit]
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 [edit]
The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI[disambiguation needed]/INFORM, Compendex, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences, Inspec, International Abstracts in Operations Research, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2009 impact factor of 1.009, ranking it 36th out of 73 journals in the category "Operations Research & Management Science", and 61st out of 112 journals in the category "Management".
Scope [edit]
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.
Main areas of application were found to be:
- methodology (11.2%)
- transportation (6%)
- production (6%)
- machine scheduling (5.3%)
- heath care (4.8%)
- inventory (4.7%)
- supply chain (3.8%)
- military (3.1%)
- logistics (2.7%)
The techniques used, or described, in published papers show an extensive range:
- Heuristics (6.6%)
- Scheduling (6.4%)
- Data envelopment analysis (5.3%)
- Simulation (4.6%)
- Optimisation (4.0%)
- Programming-Integer (3.2%)
- Mathematical modelling (2.3%)
- Vehicle routing (2.2%)
- Inventory theory (2.0%)
- Programming-Linear (1.9%)
- Tabu search (1.9%)
- Decision analysis (1.8%)
- Forecasting (1.8%)
- Problem structuring (1.7%)
- Location-Allocation modelling (1.4%)
- Statistics (1.4%)
- System dynamics (1.4%)
- Regression (1.3%)
- Simulation discrete-event (1.3%)
- Soft OR/SSM (1.3%)
- Programming-Dynamic (1.2%)
- Decision support systems (1.2%)
- Risk analysis (1.2%)
- Genetic algorithms (1.1%)
- Markov processes (1.1%).
References [edit]
- ^ 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. doi:10.1057/jors.2009.137.
