Journal of the Operational Research Society


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-oriented papers, full length theoretical papers, technical notes, discussions and book reviews.

History

The journal began as Operational Research Quarterly in 1950. At that time it was published by the Operational Research Club. It was published four times a year until 1978 when it became a monthly publication and the name was changed to Journal of the Operational Research Society.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI/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.

Scope

Some idea of the scope and contents of the journal can be found in a survey of papers published during the period 2000-2009.