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Overview

The Annals of Operations Research is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on all key aspects of operations research including theory, practice, and computation.

Publishes full-length research articles, short notes, expositions and surveys, and reports on computational studies.
Features case studies presenting new and innovative practical applications.
Periodically releases special volumes focusing on defined fields of operations research.
Includes dedicated sections focusing on the areas of data science, medicine/health care, and sustainability in supply chain management.

Editor-in-Chief

Endre Boros

Journal metrics

Journal Impact Factor: 4.5 (2024)

5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.6 (2024)

Submission to first decision (median): 29 days

Downloads: 2.3M (2024)

Calls for papers

Collection

Special Issue: Innovations in Maritime and Port Logistics: Optimization and Data-Driven Decision Making

Maritime logistics and port operations play a critical role in global trade, significantly influencing economic activities worldwide.

Collection

Special Issue: Advanced Machine Learning for System Reliability Management

Modern industrial systems generate massive datasets from sensor monitoring, which presents computational and memory challenges in data processing.

Collection

Special Issue: Global Supply Chain Reconfiguration Under Tariff Uncertainty

The reconfiguration of global supply chains has become increasingly urgent amid escalating tariff uncertainty and shifting international trade...

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Latest issue

October 2025 Volume 353, Issue 2

Ensemble Learning for Operations Research and Business Analytics

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Latest articles

Computational logistics in the food and drink industry: advances in modelling and applications
Arijit Bhattacharya
Alessio Ishizaka
EditorialNotes 17 October 2025
Asset classes and portfolio diversification: evidence from a stochastic spanning approach
Duc Khuong Nguyen
Nikolas Topaloglou
Thomas Walther
Original Research Open access 17 October 2025
Guaranteed funds’ replication by reinforcement learning
Giorgio Consigli
Michael A. H. Dempster
Michael Villaverde
Original Research Open access 16 October 2025
Advancing sustainability in complex systems: integrating environmental strategy with statistical modelling
Shahrooz Bamdad
Original Research Open access 16 October 2025
Data-driven hedging with generative models
Rama Cont
Milena Vuletić
Original Research Open access 16 October 2025

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This journal has 987 open access articles

Journal updates

Call for Papers

Learn more about upcoming Special Issues for the Annals of Operations Research that are open for submissions.
Indexed by Scopus

The Annals of Operations Research is indexed by Scopus and has a CiteScore of 9.8 for 2024.
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