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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

Editors:

Roman Słowiński, PL (Co-ordinating Editor)

Emanuele Borgonovo, I

José-Fernando Oliveira, P

Steffen Rebennack, D

Ruud Teunter, NL

Mike Yearworth, UK

Publisher: Simon Jones

Journal Manager: Caroline Muttram

Managing Editor: Anupama Nagarajan

Marketing Manager: Parveen Dhillon

Established in 1977, sponsored by EURO

Volume: ~ 9 600 pages/year, in 24 issues

Total cites: 64 756 in 2020 (1st of 83 OR & MS)

JCR 2-y Impact Factor 2020 = 5.33

JCR 5-y Impact Factor 2020 = 5.81

CiteScore 2020 (4y IF) = 9.5

# full text downloads via ScienceDirect 2.6 mln/y

# new submissions per year (2020): 3 827

Latest : Vol. 295, No. 2, December 1st, 2021

www.elsevier.com/locate/ejor/

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Mike Yearworth(University of Exeter,Business School)

Roman Słowiński(Polish Academy of Sciences,Poznań Univ. of Technology)

THE EDITORS 2021-2023

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

Steffen Rebennack(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Operations Research)

Ruud Teunter(University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business)

José-Fernando Oliveira(University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, INESC TEC)

Emanuele Borgonovo(Bocconi University, Dept. of Decision Sciences)

Annual meetings of the Editors with the Publisher

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Steffen Rebennack

Ruud Teunter

Mike Yearworth

Roman Słowiński

José Fernando Oliveira

Robert Dyson

Emanuele Borgonovo

Annual meetings of the Editors with the Publisher

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Kavitha Narayanasamy

Emanuele Borgonovo

Caroline Muttram

Steffen RebennackRobert Dyson Mike Yearworth

José Fernando Oliveira Simon Jones Ruud Teunter

Roman Słowiński

From Editorial Policy

The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)

publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to

the methodology of Operational Research (OR) and to

the practice of decision making.

The relation with ongoing research should be demonstrated

by providing proper reference to the recent OR literature.

With application papers, originality should be demonstrated by

applying OR to a problem with interesting new aspects or by

providing fresh insights leading to successful implementation.

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

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EJOR on the website

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EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper

Editors’ Choice

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Every 6 months, the Editors

recommend 6 papers

published recently, that are

opened for next 6 months

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EJOR on the website – useful services

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EJOR on the website – useful services

Submissions

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From the Editorial Policy

EJOR welcomes the following types of papers:

Invited Reviews, explaining to the general OR audience

the developments in an OR topic over the recent years

Innovative Applications of OR, describing novel ways

to solve real problems

Theory and Methodology Papers, presenting original

research results contributing to the methodology of OR

and to its theoretical foundations,

Short Communications, if they correct important defficiencies

of papers recently published in EJOR

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

Feature clusters

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EJOR in ScienceDirect

Almost 20,000 articles available since 1977

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• All articles published with gold open access will be immediately

and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

• The gold open access publication fee for EJOR is USD 2900.

• According to green open access, an author can self-archive their accepted

manuscript immediately and enable public access from their institution's

repository after an embargo period of 24 months.

• Since 2021 all accepted Invited Review papers get a sponsored by EURO GOA.

EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances

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Aceptance rate 2020: 18%

EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances

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Rejection without withdrawn

Aceptance rate 2020: 18%

EJOR – published articles by access type

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Access Type 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 YTDOpen Access 24 25 27 37 33Subscription 699 667 572 625 240Total 723 692 599 662 273

June, 2021

EJOR – number of editors’ and reviewers’ tasks

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Ratio of invited reviewers to completed reviews in 2020 (2019)

46.3% (45.7%)

Peer Reviews per Accepted Article

In average 2020 (2019):

• 5.8 (6.0) reviewers invited/acc. article

• 2.8 (2.8) reviewers completed/acc. article

• 5.6 (5.8) reviews used/acc. Article

95% of papers accepted in 2020 underwent at least 1 Major Revision

Average Editorial & Publication Speed for Published Manuscripts

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50.7 weeks

Editors’ awards for excellence in reviewing – since 2010

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EJOR R-index based on data from EES reviewer performance report

avg # days to respond (x1) – weight w1=1.0 – decreasing

avg # days to complete (x2) – weight w2=1.0 – decreasing

# times submitted on time (x3) – weight w3=2.0 – increasing

# times submitted late (x4) – weight w4=1.0 – increasing

# times terminated after acceptance (x5) – decreasing

weight w5=2.0 if #rem>1, 0 otherwise

avg utility score (50-100%) (x6) – weight w6=0.1 – increasing

The EJOR R-index for the generic reviewer:

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Reports that got less than 50% utility score were excluded

Awards for reviewers who did an outstanding job by submitting timely, unbiased and thoughtful reviews

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Reviewers awarded in 2021 for their work in 2020:

Agnetis Alessandro

Archetti Claudia

Bian Junsong

Boysen Nils

Caramia Massimiliano

Corrente Salvatore

Csató László

Dias Luis

Dosa Gyorgy

Doumpos Michalis

Fernandez Eduardo

Fukuda Satoshi

Gao Guang-Xin

Gutjahr Walter

Hartmann Sönke

Jaehn Florian

Kadziński Miłosz

Kao Chiang

Kou Gang

Koulamas Christos

Kovalyov Mikhail

Kyparisis George J.

Lamb John

Laporte Gilbert

Martin-Herran Guiomar

Matsui Kenji

Minner Stefan

Peccati Lorenzo

Podinovski Victor

Recchioni Maria

Ruiz Ruben

Schwerdfeger Stefan

Stentoft Lars

Taylor James

Tomczyk Michał

Toth Paolo

Tsionas Mike

Valerio de Carvalho José Manuel

Vanhoucke Mario

Vansteenwegen Pieter

Varela Ramiro

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Editors’ awards for excellence in reviewing – since 2010

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Web of Science JCR 2020 (Clarivate)

Total # of cites in 2020:

64,756

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Incoming cites

Outgoing cites

SCOPUS CiteScore

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SCOPUS CiteScore

SCOPUS CiteScore

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Journal ranking by H-index – 2019

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_operationsresearch

SCIMAGO

Ranking

Decision Sciences

MS&OR

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Academic Journal Guide by Chartered Association of Business Schools 2021

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Examples of other journal rankings in OR & MS category

The Australian Business Deans Council Journal Rankings List

December 2019 sets EJOR as 4* on a scale 4*-1

The Chinese Academy of Sciences

In 2020, ranks EJOR as A in a classification A-C

Fondation Nationale pour l’Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises

June 2019 ranks EJOR 1 on a scale 1*-4

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

In 2020, ranks EJOR 1 on a scale 1*-4

High Council for Evaluation of Research & Higher Education

In 2020, ranks EJOR as A in a classification A-C

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Submitted Articles by Region & Country

Submitted Articles by Region & Country

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Authors

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Country

Number of authors

1 United States 441

2 China 369

3 United Kingdom 340

4 Germany 276

5 France 205

6 Canada 161

7 Italy 144

8 Spain 142

9 Netherlands 110

10 Belgium 92

11 Brazil 89

12 Australia 79

13 Turkey 60

14 Portugal 55

15 Taiwan 52

16 Denmark 49

17 Austria 42

18 Greece 41

19 Israel 39

20 Finland 38

Accepted Articles by Region & Country

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Accepted Articles by Region & Country

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Top 10 Countries 2019: Submitted and Accepted Compared

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Top 10 Countries 2019: Rejection Rate

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Downloads of Full-Text Articles (FTA) from ScienceDirect

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Articles on line > 19,854

2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

2,771,402 2,821,881 2,894,319 3,097,537 2,725,798 2,582,072

Final remarks

With the current pressure on publications in top tier journals,

the number of submissions to EJOR has grown significantly.

In this situation, the Editors of EJOR had to adjust their

editorial policy and became more strict regarding the focus

of the submissions on Operational Research (OR).

Although diversity and interface of OR with other disciplines are still

strong points of EJOR, the Editors are now more demanding

regarding the centrality of the use of OR methodology to support

decision-making on real-world inspired problems.

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