1

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

Editors:

Roman Słowiński, PL (Co-ordinating Editor)

Immanuel Bomze, A

Emanuele Borgonovo, I

Robert Dyson, UK

José-Fernando Oliveira, P

Ruud Teunter, NL

Publishing Editor: Jessica Bibb Journal Manager: Kate Partner Marketing Manager: Jenny Ellis

Established in 1977, sponsored by EURO

Volume: ~ 7 000 pages/year, in 24 issues

Total cites: 29 872 in 2014 (1st of 81 OR & MS) JCR 5-y Impact Factor 2014 = 2.911

Last issue published (status of 8 July, 2015): vol. 247, no.1, 16 November 2015

# of new submissions per year: > 3 100 Acceptance rate in 2014: ~ 20%

www.elsevier.com/locate/ejor/

2

The editors of EJOR until 2014

Jean-Charles Billaut, Immanuel Bomze, Robert Dyson, Lorenzo Peccati, Roman Slowinski

3

The editors of EJOR since 2015

Jose-Fernando Oliveira

Immanuel Bomze

Ruud Teunter Robert Dyson

Emanuele Borgonovo Roman Słowiński

4

2015

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.

5

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.

6

From 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, commenting papers published in EJOR

7

From Editorial Policy

Theory and Methodology Papers are classified into one of the seven headings:

• Continuous Optimization

• Discrete Optimization

• Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

• Stochastics and Statistics

• Decision Support

• Computational Intelligence and Information Management

• Interfaces with Other Disciplines

8

HOW TO GET PUBLISHED AND CITED IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS | 9

The Homepage

Metrics

Info for Readers

Calls for papers

Latest News

Info for Authors

Updates

10

11

OPE

N A

CCES

S

gold OA (1800$) green OA (embargo time – 36m)

Issue e-Alert for EJOR by Elsevier

12

CiteAlert from Elsevier

13

EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances

1999: 688 2005: 1402 2009: 2091 2014: 3129

14

Special Issues/Feature Clusters (2013-2016): • Maritime Logistics • EURO/INFORMS-2013 • Vehicle Routing & Distribution Logistics • Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization • Markowitz’s contribution to Portfolio Theory • Stochastic Optimization • Sustainable Scheduling • Credit Risk Modelling • Behavioural OR • Exact Methods of Multiobjective Optimization • Community Operational Research

EJOR – number of editors’ and reviewers’ tasks

15

Estimated numbers for the whole 2015:

Total invitations to review - 13104

Agreed - 6346

Completed - 4330

in first 6 months of 2015

Papers accepted by Editors

2013 2014

Billaut, J.-C. 114 117 Bomze, I. 111 116 Dyson, R. 148 122 Peccati, L. 85 137 Slowinski, R. 95 117 Guest Editors 65 21

Total 618 630

16

Search in SCOPUS (All reviewers get 30-day free access to SCOPUS)

Awards for reviewers who did an outstanding job by submitting timely, unbiased and thoughtful reviews – started in 2010

17

Fran Ackermann

Carlos Barros

Kris Boudt

Nils Boysen

Massimiliano Caramia

Salvatore Corrente

Michael Doumpos

Paul Goodwin

Salvatore Greco

Alessio Ishizaka

Milosz Kadzinski

Jerzy Kamburowski

Chiang Kao

Christos Koulamas

George J Kyparisis

John Lamb

Gilbert Laporte

Adam Letchford

Joseph Y‐T Leung

Sebastian Lozano

Benedetto Matarazzo

Stefan Minner

David Olson

Ruben Ruiz

Jose L Ruiz

Tommi Tervonen

Ruud Teunter

Nickolaos Tzeremes

Mario Vanhoucke

Leroy White

Joe Zhu

Constantin Zopounidis

Reviewers awarded in 2015 for their work in 2014:

Awards for reviewers

18

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

avg # days to respond (x1) – weight w1=0.8 – decreasing

avg # days to complete (x2) – weight w2=0.5 – decreasing

# times agreed (x3) – weight w3=1.0 – increasing

# times submitted on time (x4) – weight w4=2.0 – increasing

# times submitted late (x5) – weight w5=1.5 – increasing

# times terminated after acceptance (x6) – increasing – weight w6=−2.0 if #rem>1, 0 otherwise

The EJOR R-index for the generic reviewer:

66554433

2

2

1

1

11xwxwxwxw

xw

xwR ++++

++

+=

Reports that got less than 50% utility score are excluded

The most frequent primary keywords of 2014 submissions

19

(Editor) KEYWORD # subm. Rejection (T) Supply chain management 218 79% (D) Data envelopment analysis 189 80% (S) Scheduling 158 74% (T) Inventory 119 84% (B) Finance 118 77% (O) Transportation 94 65% (S) Multiple criteria analysis 86 81% (B) Decision analysis 80 80% (D) Behavioural OR 78 100% (I) Game theory 74 78% (O) Combinatorial optimization 66 76% (T) Logistics 62 80% (S) Decision support systems 57 82% (T) Routing 53 46% (I) OR in energy 50 70% (O) OR in health services 50 73% (B) Risk management 48 85% (D) Economics 45 75% (S) Multiple objective programming

45 80%

(I) Queueing 41 81% (T) Manufacturing 40 71% (B) Pricing 39 91% (T) Maintenance 39 78% (O) Production 35 80%

(O) Metaheuristics 34 64% (O) Location 33 61% (T) Forecasting 33 89% (I) Applied probability 32 72% (B) Reliability 31 78% (B) Risk analysis 30 70% (B) Uncertainty modelling 29 82% (S) Artificial intelligence 29 95% (S) Fuzzy sets 29 92% (I) Networks 28 82% (S) Evolutionary computations 28 81% (I) Data mining 26 77% (O) Heuristics 25 70% (O) OR in service industries 25 81% (B) Integer programming 24 63% (B) OR in banking 24 70% (D) OR in marketing 23 59% (I) Stochastic programming 23 72% (D) Decision processes 22 95% (I) Quality control 22 93% (B) Simulation 21 83% (I) Linear programming 20 79% (I) Nonlinear programming 20 74% (D) OR in environment and climate change

19 93%

(I) Facilities planning and design 19 85%

The most frequent primary keywords of 2014 submissions

20

(O) Packing 19 64% (D) Analytics 18 77% (D) Revenue management 18 65% (S) Project scheduling 18 76% (B) Project management 17 88% (S) Dynamic programming 17 71% (B) Investment analysis 16 80% (D) Auctions/bidding 16 75% (I) Stochastic processes 16 78% (D) OR in agriculture 15 82% (O) Genetic algorithms 15 92% (B) Robustness and sensitivity analysis 14 100% (D) OR in research and development 14 88% (D) OR in societal problem analysis 14 80% (I) Graph theory 14 85% (I) Multivariate statistics 14 83% (B) Computing science 13 100% (D) Systems dynamics 13 78% (I) Global optimization 13 91% (O) Timetabling 13 71% (B) Quality management 12 82% (I) Control 12 100% (I) Markov processes 12 88%

(I) OR in telecommunications 12 76% (B) Distributed decision making 11 90% (D) Problem structuring 11 50% (O) Distribution 11 80% (O) Flexible manufacturing systems 11 82% (S) Group decisions and negotiations 11 63% (D) E-commerce 10 100% (D) OR in government 10 86% (D) OR in sports 10 60% (D) Productivity and competitiveness 10 64% (I) Traffic 10 75% (O) Retailing 10 80% (T) OR in defense 10 90% (D) OR in natural resources 9 67% (D) Strategic planning 9 78% (O) Travelling salesman 9 55% (S) Goal programming 9 71% (B) Purchasing 8 100% (O) Education 8 71% (D) Human resource planning 7 86% (I) Convex programming 7 100% (I) Fractional programming 7 100% (I) OR in airlines 7 50%

The most frequent primary keywords of 2014 submissions

21

(O) Constraint programming 7 100% (O) OR in developing countries 7 86% (O) OR in disaster relief 7 100% (S) Assignment 7 83% (S) Knowledge-based systems 7 71% (S) OR in medicine 7 100% (I) Large scale optimization 6 57% (O) OR in maritime industry 6 100% (B) Utility theory 5 75% (D) Multi-agent systems 5 100% (I) Replacement 5 100% (S) Branch and bound 5 100% (S) Rough sets 5 67% (S) Preference learning 4 100% (I) Conic programming & interior point methods 3 100% (O) Cutting 3 29% (B) OR in organization theory 2 100% (D) Cost benefit analysis 2 100% (S) Complexity theory 2 67% (B) OR in entertainment 1 100%

22

Journal Citation Report 2014 (Web of Science)

23

Journal ranking by H-index – SCIMAGO

24

< 15%

SCIM

AG

O

25

> 37%

SCIMAGO

Journal ranking by H-index –

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

27

SNIP – Source Normalized Impact per Paper – SCOPUS

SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field

EJOR

28

SNIP – Source Normalized Impact per Paper – Scopus

SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field

EJOR

EJOR

Journal ranking in UK – Association of Business Schools (ABS)

29

2015

Journal ranking in Germany - the 2015 VHB-Journal Ranking

30

The VHB is the association of all Professors teaching for business administration in Germany. Over 1.100 professors participate in the evaluation of 934 journals. A score has been given to 11.1% of journals

Journal ranking in Brazil - Qualis rating by area

31

Journal ranking in Brazil - Qualis rating by area

32

33

Mos

t Cite

d EJ

OR P

aper

s (W

eb o

f Sci

ence

, Ju

ly 8

, 20

15)

Most downloaded articles (Q4-2014)

34

Geographical breakdown of corresponding authors in 2014

35

Geographical breakdown of submissions in 2014

36

COUNTRY #SUBM %REJECT China 624 87% United States 316 70% Iran 203 94% United Kingdom 170 65% India 168 94% Germany 134 61% Spain 133 70% Taiwan 131 89% Canada 114 73% Turkey 106 86% France 105 62% Italy 93 67% Brazil 77 78% Australia 73 75% Hong Kong 54 77% Netherlands 52 61% Rep. of Korea 43 88% Belgium 36 53% Singapore 36 85% Greece 32 58% Poland 30 76% Japan 29 79% Malaysia 28 100%

Israel 26 88% Switzerland 23 81% Portugal 20 71% Denmark 18 50% Austria 17 54% Chile 17 67% Finland 17 56% Tunisia 16 89% New Zealand 15 100% Colombia 13 45% Mexico 13 85% Norway 13 54% Russian Fed. 13 75% Rep. of Serbia 12 100% Saudi Arabia 12 90% Sweden 11 78% Egypt 10 100% Hungary 10 83% Czech Republic 9 90% Pakistan 7 83% Romania 7 100% Slovenia 7 78% South Africa 7 83% Ireland 6 60% Thailand 6 100%

Lebanon 5 67% United Arab Em. 5 86% Algeria 4 50% Argentina 4 50% Macao 4 100% Nigeria 4 100% Qatar 4 100% Croatia 3 100% Kuwait 3 50% Oman 3 100% Uruguay 3 100% Brunei Darussalam 2 67% Ethiopia 2 100% Indonesia 2 100% Lithuania 2 100% Luxembourg 2 Morocco 2 100% Slovakia 2 100% Ukraine 2 100% Bangladesh 1 100% Estonia 1 100% Iraq 1 100% Jordan 1 100% Kenya 1 100% Montenegro 1 100% Nepal 1 100%

Downloads of Full-Text Articles (FTA) from ScienceDirect

37

Articles on line = 17 206 User Accounts ~ 8 000

Usage per country:

• China 20.8%

• UK 9.1%

• USA 8.9%

• Germany 5.1%

• Turkey 5.1%

• Netherlands 3.2%

• Australia 3.2%

• Brazil 3.2%

• India 3.0%

• Canada 2.1%

• France 2.0%

Average publication speed

38

Submission to 1st decision: 13.8 weeks Author’s revision 15.3 weeks Revised submission to final disposition: 22.6 weeks

51.7 w

60.8 w

63.7 w

Author Feedback Program – benchmarking performance of EJOR

39

Author Feedback Program – overall satisfaction

40

EJOR Measurements per March 2015

Improvement in article due to reviewers suggestion.

(Author from India aged 36-45)

I have learned a lot by publishing in EJOR and, in general, have had a good experience interacting with the editor and reviewers.

(Author from United Kingdom aged 56-65)

Prestige and reputation of the journal and fair review process. (Author from Turkey aged Under 26)

Long reviewing processes. Otherwise the journal is solid. (Author from Slovenia aged 36-45)

AudioSlides

AudioSlides offers authors of an accepted article the opportunity to include a five-minute presentation (PPT or PDF) with their paper

This presentation consists of slides and audio and is shown next to the online (HTML) article on ScienceDirect - enabling the reader to get a personal, insightful overview of the material from the authors

In the past, Elsevier has already introduced Graphical Abstracts and Research Highlights as new ways to help authors in highlighting the salient points in their work

41