Why publish in Decision Analysis?

Since it was first launched in 2004, Decision Analysis has rapidly established itself as the leading journal that specializes in the publication of high-quality papers on the theory, application and teaching of all aspects of decision analysis.

Published by INFORMS with editorial leadership from members of its Decision Analysis Society, Decision Analysis benefits from the support of strong and widely regarded professional organizations. It is rightly associated with the hallmark of quality that is ascribed to INFORMS journals.

The Editorial Board of Decision Analysis consists of pre-eminent decision analysts who are committed to the journal and publish their cutting-edge research in it. At present, the Editorial Board has many INFORMS Fellows and winners of the Ramsey P. Medal, the highest distinction of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society. These award winners have published many papers in Decision Analysis.

Decision Analysis prides itself in ensuring that submissions are refereed efficiently, competently and consistently. As rule, the authors can expect that the Editorial Decision will be reached in less than four months. This is much sooner than with many other journals where the authors may have to wait over a year before obtaining feedback.

Having completed five years of publication, Decision Analysis was included in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) from volume 6 onward. Decision Analysis has an impact factor of 2.143. For prospective authors, this is yet another reason to submit their research to Decision Analysis, because their papers, if accepted, will appear in the many databases that build on SSCI. It is also covered by many other indices.

The excellent quality of Decision Analysis is also demonstrated by its papers receiving many citations from the scientific literature and even more broadly. For example, the 71 articles published in Decision Analysis during 2004-07 received some 1070 citations in scholar.google.com (as of December 1, 2008), resulting in an average of 15.1 citations per paper. This compares very favorably with many other journals, such as Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (an average of 4.2 from 76 cites to 26 papers), Operations Research Letters (an average of 4.9 from 1868 cites to 380 papers), Decision Sciences (an average of 1.9 from 158 cites to 82 papers), Omega (an average of 0.3 from 56 cites to 207 papers), and OR Spectrum (an average of 1.3 from 161 cites to 121 papers).

*This section was prepared by Ahti Salo, with support from Jason R.W. Merrick and Thomas Langer.

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