Journal Guide

Operations Management Research: Advancing Practice through Theory publishes short, focused research studies that advance the theory and practice of operations management. OMR is a rigorous, double-blind peer-reviewed journal that is oriented toward fast reviews and publication of high-quality research that makes a clear contribution to the science and practice of operations management in today’s global institutions. Coverage includes all topics in operations management as well as research paradigms from mathematical modeling to ethnography.

Operations Research Perspectives is an exciting new open access journal in the field of Operations Research and Management Science. It provides a dedicated and safe environment for open access research, with fast online publication on ScienceDirect for all accepted papers.

Operations Research and Management Science has matured over the last 60 years. Nowadays it is a truly interdisciplinary field, intermixing theories and methodologies from mathematics, management science, computer science, operations management, economics, engineering, decision support, soft computing and many more, even reaching into psychology, ergonomics, knowledge management, education, quality management and biology.

Rather than disseminating the different scholarly papers among a large number of journals, or focusing on specialized topics in niche publications, Operations Research Perspectives aims to bring together high-quality papers and original contributions with a potentially far-reaching impact in the field, inside the same journal. As a result, the interfaces between the different disciplines and the richness of the field are bolstered, facilitating new and interesting approaches.

Operations Research Perspectives is aimed at a wide audience, ranging from management scientists, industrial engineers, computer scientists, mathematicians, practitioners and scientists working in the operations research field, understood in a wide sense. Similarly, all kinds of submissions, from short notes and technical letters to longer-length research papers, case studies and applications are welcomed. There is no page limit imposed and supplementary materials, including multimedia, are also welcomed.

Operations Research Perspectives operates a rigorous single blind review process, with all accepted papers having at least 2 quality referee reports from prominent researchers in the field.

Benefits to authors

Operations Research Perspectives is an open access journal. The journal and the editorial workflow have been fine-tuned in order to speed up the revision process as much as possible. As a result of these two key benefits, authors' research results are disseminated quickly and openly to the field, which significantly increases their visibility and potential impact.

Another key benefit is a series of cross-editorial agreements with other major operations research journals, namely Omega - The International Journal of Management Science, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Computers & Operations Research and Computers & Industrial Engineering. Under these agreements, selected high-quality papers that have already been peer reviewed might be accepted in a quick editorial decision for Operations Research Perspectives.

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The principal aim of Organization is to foster dialogue and innovation in studies of organization. The journal addresses a broad spectrum of issues, and a wide range of perspectives, as the foundation for a 'neo-disciplinary' organization studies. In doing so, it promotes an ethos which is explicitly: theory-driven, international in scope and vision, open, reflective, imaginative and critical, interdisciplinary, facilitating exchange amongst scholars from a wide range of current disciplinary bases and perspectives.

Organization Management Journal (OMJ) is an open access, blind peer-reviewed online publication sponsored by the Eastern Academy of Management and Southwest Academy of Management.

Organization Science is ranked among the top journals in management by the Social Science Citation Index in terms of impact and is widely recognized in the fields of strategy, management, and organization theory. Organization Science provides one umbrella for the publication of research from all over the world in fields such as organization theory, strategic management, sociology, economics, political science, history, information science, communication theory, and psychology.

Organization Studies (OS) publishes peer-reviewed, top quality theoretical and empirical research with the aim of promoting the understanding of organizations, organizing and the organized in and between societies. OS is a multidisciplinary journal with global reach, rooted in the social sciences, inspired by diversity, comparative in outlook and open to paradigmatic plurality. It is recognized as one of the world's highest impact management journals through inclusion in the Financial Times' list of leading journals. OS is published in collaboration with EGOS, the European Group for Organizational Studies.

Organizational Research Methods (ORM), peer-reviewed and published quarterly, brings relevant methodological developments to a wide range of researchers in organizational and management studies and promotes a more effective understanding of current and new methodologies and their application in organizational settings. ORM has positioned itself among elite scholarly journals, known for high-quality manuscripts from the qualitative and quantitative domains, micro and macro perspectives.

Published eight times a year, Production Planning & Control is an international journal that brings together research papers on all aspects of production planning and control and the management of operations in all industries. The journal focuses on research that stems from an industrial need and can guide the activities of managers, consultants, software developers and researchers. It publishes accessible articles on research and industrial applications, new techniques and development trends.Production Planning & Control publishes keynote papers (by invitation), research papers with an applied bias, state-of-the-art reviews, tutorial reviews, case studies, reports on applications, conference reports and book reviews.To be published in Production Planning & Control, a paper will have been reviewed and accepted by at least two competent experts in the field. Reviewers are drawn from the Editorial Board and a list of occasional reviewers who have been nominated for their expertise. Reviewers' comments are based on relevance to the field, particularly applicability in industry, besides originality and scientific rigour.

Project Management Journal is the academic and research journal of the Project Management Institute and features state-of-the-art research, techniques, theories, and applications in project management. The Project Management Journal's mission is to address the broad interests of the project management profession and maintain an editorial balance of content about research, technique, theory, and practice. The Project Management Journal encourages submissions from researchers addressing the art and science of project, program and portfolio management situations according to an inter-disciplinary perspective. The journal's international and multi-disciplinary review team ensures continued standards of excellence in terms of quality of content and reputation among the academic community. About Project Management Institute.

Public Personnel Management (PPM) is published specifically for human resource executives and managers in the public sector. Each quarterly edition contains in-depth articles on trends, case studies and the latest research by top human resource scholars and industry experts.