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Operations Research/Management Science Research in Europe: A Bibliometric Overview
Table 1
Most publishing 25 journals in OR/MS in Europe (1980–2018).
| | Rank | Journal name | Country/Region | # of articles | % of total | H-index | Quartile | JCR 2016 impact factor |
| | 1 | European Journal of Operational Research | Netherlands | 7,973 | 12.2% | 211 | Q1 | 3.428 | | 2 | Expert Systems with Applications | United States | 3,870 | 5.9% | 145 | Q1 | 3.768 | | 3 | International Journal of Production Research | United Kingdom | 2,906 | 4.5% | 107 | Q1 | 2.623 | | 4 | International Journal of Production Economics | Netherlands | 2,782 | 4.3% | 141 | Q1 | 4.407 | | 5 | Journal of the Operational Research Society | United Kingdom | 2,581 | 3.9% | 87 | Q3 | 1.225 | | 6 | Reliability Engineering System Safety | Netherlands | 2,258 | 3.5% | 112 | Q1 | 1.666 | | 7 | Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications | United States | 2,131 | 3.3% | 74 | Q3 | 1.234 | | 8 | Systems & Control Letters | Netherlands | 2,069 | 3.1% | 117 | Q1 | 2.656 | | 9 | Annals of Operations Research | Netherlands | 2,011 | 3.1% | 86 | Q2 | 1.864 | | 10 | Computers & Operations Research | United Kingdom | 2,008 | 3.1% | 124 | Q1 | 2.962 | | 11 | Safety Science | Netherlands | 1,681 | 2.6% | 81 | Q2 | 2.835 | | 12 | International Journal of System Science | United Kingdom | 1,588 | 2.4% | 59 | Q2 | 2.185 | | 13 | Mathematical Programming | Germany | 1,392 | 2.1% | 99 | Q1 | 2.490 | | 14 | Operations Research Letters | Netherlands | 1,123 | 1.7% | 63 | Q4 | 0.643 | | 15 | Management Science | United States | 1,093 | 1.7% | 209 | Q1 | 2.822 | | 16 | Journal of Global Optimization | Netherlands | 1,075 | 1.6% | 70 | Q2 | 1.407 | | 17 | OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science | United Kingdom | 1,024 | 1.6% | 108 | Q1 | 4.311 | | 18 | International Journal of Technology Management | United Kingdom | 1,020 | 1.6% | 48 | Q2 | 0.410 | | 19 | Technovation | United Kingdom | 964 | 1.5% | 102 | Q1 | 2.010 | | 20 | Production Planning & Control | United Kingdom | 930 | 1.4% | 61 | Q1 | 2.330 | | 21 | Transportation Research Part B: Methodological | United Kingdom | 810 | 1.2% | 107 | Q1 | 3.110 | | 22 | Mathematics of Operations Research | United States | 753 | 1.2% | 67 | Q1 | 1.270 | | 23 | Decision Support Systems | Netherlands | 742 | 1.1% | 115 | Q1 | 3.565 | | 24 | International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing | United Kingdom | 731 | 1.1% | 44 | Q2 | 1.995 | | 25 | IEEE Networks | United States | 715 | 1.1% | 106 | Q1 | 1.500 |
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