Operations Research - Societies and Journals

Societies and Journals

Societies

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) is an umbrella organization for operational research societies worldwide, representing approximately 50 national societies including those in the US, UK, France, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, India, Japan and South Africa (ORSSA). The constituent members of IFORS form regional groups, such as that in Europe. Other important operational research organizations are Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO) and Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)

In 2004 the US-based organization INFORMS began an initiative to market the OR profession better, including a website entitled The Science of Better which provides an introduction to OR and examples of successful applications of OR to industrial problems. This initiative has been adopted by the Operational Research Society in the UK, including a website entitled Learn about OR.

Journals

INFORMS publishes twelve scholarly journals about operations research, including the top two journals in their class, according to 2005 Journal Citation Reports. They are:

• Decision Analysis
• Information Systems Research
• INFORMS Journal on Computing
• INFORMS Transactions on Education (an open access journal)
• Interfaces: An International Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Management Science: A Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
• Marketing Science
• Mathematics of Operations Research
• Operations Research: A Journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Organization Science
• Transportation Science.

Other journals

• 4OR-A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research: jointly published the Belgian, French and Italian Operations Research Societies (Springer);
• Decision Sciences published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Decision Sciences Institute
• European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR): Founded in 1975 and is presently by far the largest operational research journal in the world, with its around 9,000 pages of published papers per year. In 2004, its total number of citations was the second largest amongst Operational Research and Management Science journals;
• INFOR Journal: published and sponsored by the Canadian Operational Research Society;
• International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems (IJORIS)": an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association, published quarterly by IGI Global;
• Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation (JDMS): Applications, Methodology, Technology: a quarterly journal devoted to advancing the science of modeling and simulation as it relates to the military and defense.
• Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS): an official journal of The OR Society; this is the oldest continuously published journal of OR in the world, published by Palgrave;
• Journal of Simulation (JOS): an official journal of The OR Society, published by Palgrave;
• Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (MMOR): the journal of the German and Dutch OR Societies, published by Springer;
• Military Operations Research (MOR): published by the Military Operations Research Society;
• Opsearch: official journal of the Operational Research Society of India;
• OR Insight: a quarterly journal of The OR Society, published by Palgrave;
• Production and Operations Management, the official journal of the Production and Operations Management Society
• TOP: the official journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research.