Operations Research

Operations Research, along with Management Science, is an INFORMS flagship journal serving the broad OR/MS community including practitioners, researchers, educators, and students. Operations Research strives to publish results that are truly insightful with substantial contributions that will stand the test of time. Each issue offers a balance of well-written studies that span the wide array of creative activity in OR/MS.

Research articles include those concerning the definition of new problem domains for the field, innovative conceptualizations and mathematical formulations of problems, and the development of new methodologies to attack known and new problems. 

Other subjects include creative applications of O.R. methods to interesting applications areas and important historical surveys and overviews of the O.R. profession and intellectual heritage.

"BusinessWeek continues to include four INFORMS journals (Marketing Science, Operations Research, Management Science, and Information Systems Research) among the top 20 journals valued by business school deans and academic program directors."

Frequency: Bimonthly
ISSN: 0030-364X (Print), 1526-5463 (Online)
Institute for Scientific Information (Thomson ISI) Index/Category
Science Citation Index (SCI) category: Operations Research & Management Science
2011 Impact Factor: 1.665
5-Year Impact: 2.285

Subscribe to: Operations Research

Editor-in-Chief
2014–2012; Stefanos A. Zenios
2011–2009; 2008–2006: David Simchi-Levi
2005–2003; 2002–2000: Lawrence M. Wein (appointed EIC when Harker stepped down)
1999–1996: Patrick T. Harker (stepped down when appointed dean at Wharton)
1995–1988: H. Donald Ratliff
1987–1983: Thomas L. Magnanti
1982–1979: William P. Pierskalla
1978–1975: George L. Nemhauser
1974–1968: Hugh J. Miser (term began with issue 5 of 1968)
1968–1962: Thomas E. Caywood
1961–1957: George Shortley
1952: Thornton Page

Operations Research Special Issues

• Special Issue on "OR for the Public Interest"
  Guest Editors: Moshe Kress, Shmuel Oren and Stefanos Zenios
  Submission deadline:  September 30, 2010
• Special Issue on "Computational Economics"
   Guest Editors: Kenneth L. Judd, Garrett J. van Ryzin
• Special Issue on "Operations Research in Health Care"
  Guest Editors: Edwin Romeijn and Stefanos Zenios
  Published:  Year 2008, Volume 56, Issue 6

Operations Research News and Awards

• Jeppesen Named 2010 INFORMS PRize Winner in Analytics, Operations Research (April 226, 2010)
• David Hutton takes First Place in Doing Good with OR Student Competition
• George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award announced for 2009
• Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS
• Case and Teaching Materials Competition winning material