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Best Management Science and Operations Research journals

219 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Management Science and Operations Research. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 56 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Sustainable Operations and Computers 50.7 99th Q1 Yes
2 Innovation and Green Development 22.8 99th Q1 B Yes
3 Production Planning and Control 21.2 98th Q1 SCIE A No
4 International Journal of Production Economics 19.5 98th Q1 SCIE A No
5 Operations Management Research 18.6 98th Q1 SSCI C No
6 Decision Making Advances 18.5 97th Q1 No
7 International Journal of Production Research 18.1 97th Q1 SCIE A No
8 Research Policy 17.6 96th Q1 SSCI A* No
9 International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications 17.3 96th Q1 SSCI B No
10 Journal of Operations Management 17.2 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
11 Information Processing and Management 16.8 95th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
12 Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 15.4 94th Q1 SCIE A* No
13 Data Science and Management 14.4 94th Q1 Yes
14 Journal of Business Logistics 14.3 94th Q1 SSCI A No
15 Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Analytics 14.1 93th Q1 No
16 European Journal of Operational Research 14 93th Q1 SCIE A* No
17 Omega (United Kingdom) 13.7 92th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A No
18 Computers and Industrial Engineering 13.5 92th Q1 SCIE A No
19 Annals of Operations Research 13.4 91th Q1 SCIE A No
20 Journal of Management in Engineering 13.1 91th Q1 SCIE A No
21 Journal of Management Information Systems 12.3 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
22 Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 12.1 90th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
23 Journal of Operations Intelligence 12.1 90th Q1 No
24 Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies 11.9 89th Q1 SSCI A No
25 Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 11.9 89th Q1 ESCI C No
26 Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 11.9 88th Q1 SCIE, SSCI C No
27 Journal of Manufacturing Processes 11.9 88th Q1 SCIE No
28 Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing 11.8 87th Q1 ESCI C No
29 Management Science 11.8 87th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* Yes
30 Management Decision 11.6 86th Q1 SSCI B No
31 ENGINEERING Management 11.4 86th Q1 ESCI No
32 Production and Operations Management 11.3 86th Q1 SCIE A* No
33 International Journal of Engineering Business Management 11.2 85th Q1 ESCI Yes
34 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 10.6 85th Q1 SCIE, SSCI A* No
35 Knowledge Management Research and Practice 10.3 84th Q1 SSCI A No
36 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 9.8 84th Q1 No
37 Supply Chain Forum 9.6 83th Q1 ESCI C No
38 International Journal of Lean Six Sigma 9.4 83th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
39 Computers and Operations Research 9.2 82th Q1 SCIE A No
40 Egyptian Informatics Journal 9.1 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
41 Research in Transportation Business and Management 8.7 82th Q1 SSCI B No
42 Operations Research Perspectives 8.5 81th Q1 SCIE Yes
43 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 8.3 81th Q1 SCIE No
44 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management 8.1 80th Q1 Yes
45 Logistics 8.1 80th Q1 ESCI Yes
46 International Transactions in Operational Research 8.1 79th Q1 SCIE, SSCI B No
47 Journal of Safety Science and Resilience 8.1 79th Q1 ESCI Yes
48 Kybernetes 7.7 78th Q1 SCIE No
49 Asian Journal of Shipping and Logistics 7.6 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
50 Journal of Modelling in Management 7.5 78th Q1 ESCI C No
51 Journal of Global Information Management 7.5 77th Q1 SSCI A No
52 Sport Management Review 7.3 77th Q1 SSCI A No
53 Operational Research 7.3 76th Q1 SCIE C No
54 Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 7.3 76th Q1 SSCI B No
55 International Journal of Management Science and Engineering Management 7.2 75th Q1 ESCI C No
56 International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management 7.2 75th Q1 ESCI Yes
57 Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 7 74th Q2 SCIE C No
58 Journal of Management Control 6.9 74th Q2 ESCI A No
59 Advances in Decision Sciences 6.9 74th Q2 No
60 Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M 6.8 73th Q2 SCIE, SSCI B No
61 Journal of the Operational Research Society 6.7 73th Q2 SCIE, SSCI A No
62 Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management 6.7 72th Q2 ESCI B Yes
63 Strategy Science 6.6 72th Q2 ESCI A No
64 INFORMS Journal on Computing 6.6 71th Q2 SCIE A No
65 Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 6.6 71th Q2 ESCI Yes
66 Cogent Business and Management 6.5 70th Q2 ESCI C Yes
67 Spectrum of Engineering and Management Sciences 6.5 70th Q2 No
68 Public Transport 6.4 70th Q2 ESCI No
69 Operations Research 6.4 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI A* No
70 INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 6.3 69th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
71 International Journal of Systems Science: Operations and Logistics 6.1 68th Q2 SCIE C No
72 Engineering Optimization 5.8 68th Q2 SCIE No
73 Quality Technology and Quantitative Management 5.8 67th Q2 SCIE C No
74 Journal of Rail Transport Planning and Management 5.7 67th Q2 ESCI No
75 Modern Supply Chain Research and Applications 5.6 66th Q2 Yes
76 Journal of Managerial Psychology 5.5 66th Q2 SSCI B No
77 IET Networks 5.5 66th Q2 ESCI Yes
78 IMA Journal of Management Mathematics 5.4 65th Q2 SCIE, SSCI No
79 Quality and Reliability Engineering International 5.4 65th Q2 SCIE No
80 Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization 5.4 64th Q2 Yes
81 Advances in Production Engineering and Management 5.3 64th Q2 SCIE No
82 Managerial and Decision Economics 5.3 63th Q2 SSCI B No
83 Journal of Forecasting 5.1 63th Q2 SSCI A No
84 Central European Journal of Operations Research 5.1 62th Q2 SCIE C No
85 EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics 5.1 62th Q2 ESCI B Yes
86 Journal of Simulation 5.1 62th Q2 SCIE B No
87 Operations and Supply Chain Management 4.9 61th Q2 ESCI C No
88 Operations Research for Health Care 4.9 61th Q2 ESCI No
89 Journal of Quality Technology 4.9 60th Q2 SCIE A No
90 Journal of International Logistics and Trade 4.9 60th Q2 Yes
91 Service Science 4.8 59th Q2 SSCI B No
92 Mathematics of Operations Research 4.7 59th Q2 SCIE A No
93 4OR 4.6 58th Q2 SCIE B No
94 Journal of Business Analytics 4.5 58th Q2 ESCI C No
95 Naval Research Logistics 4.5 58th Q2 SCIE B No
96 Futures and Foresight Science 4.4 57th Q2 No
97 Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education 4.3 57th Q2 ESCI Yes
98 International Review of Applied Sciences and Engineering 4.2 56th Q2 Yes
99 International Journal of Production Management and Engineering 4.1 56th Q2 ESCI Yes
100 OR Spectrum 4.1 55th Q2 SCIE B No

Rank and percentile are within the Management Science and Operations Research Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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