Journal Metrics: INFORMS Journal on Computing

INFORMS provides a range of metrics to help readers, authors, reviewers, and editors understand the reach, visibility, and editorial performance of each journal. These indicators reflect our commitment to transparency in scholarly publishing and to continuous improvement in editorial quality and timeliness. We encourage all members of our research community to consider multiple indicators, as no single metric fully captures a journal’s influence or quality.

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Journal Impact Factor

The below chart displays INFORMS Journal on Computing’s (IJOC's) impact factor (blue) during the past five years, as reported by Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports®, alongside the aggregate impact factor for each category in which IJOC is indexed: Science Citation Index Expanded® (SCIE) categories OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (orange) and COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS (gray).

Chart showing IJOC's impact factor from 2017 through 2021

The journal impact factor is defined as the average number of times articles from the journal published in the past two years have been cited in the reporting year, calculated for example as:

Citations received in 2024 to articles published in 2022 and 2023
Number of citable items published in 2022 and 2023

 

Rank

INFORMS Journal on Computing (IJOC) is indexed within the Web of Science™ Science Citation Index Expanded® (SCIE) in the categories of OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE and COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS. The below tables report IJOC’s rank within each of these categories during the past five years (with the current year highlighted in orange).

OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE - SCIE
Year Rank (Quartile)
2024 52 / 106 (Q2)
2023 42 / 106 (Q2)
2022 52 / 86 (Q3)
2021 33 / 87 (Q2)
2020 46 / 84 (Q3)

 

COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS - SCIE
Year Rank (Quartile)
2024 115 / 175 (Q3)
2023 97 / 170 (Q3)
2022 84 / 110 (Q4)
2021 61 / 112 (Q3)
2020 69 / 111 (Q3)

Decision Times

The below chart displays the average time (in months) for a paper to reach first decision (blue) and final decision (orange) for all articles sent for external review and decided within the reporting period.

Chart showing IJOC's average time in review from 2017 through 2021
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