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Eurpean Journal of Operational Research How to Get Published & Cited in Academic Journals 2015
Roman Słowiński
Poznań University of Technology
and Polish Academy of Sciences
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Elsevier & Operations Research
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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
Publisher: Jessica Bibb
Journal Manager: Randy Van Grunsven
Established in 1977, sponsored by EURO
(European Association of Operational Research Societies)
Volume: ~ 7 000 pages/year, in 24 issues
Total cites: 26 370 in 2013 (1st in OR & MS)
JCR 5-y Impact Factor 2013 = 2.625
Last issue published (status of Jan. 19, 2015):
vol. 242, no.3, 1st May 2015
# of new submissions per year: 3200
Acceptance rate in 2014: ~ 20%
www.elsevier.com/locate/ejor/
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The editors of EJOR until 2014
Jean-Charles Billaut, Immanuel Bomze, Robert Dyson, Lorenzo Peccati, Roman Slowinski
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The editors of EJOR since 2015
Jose-Fernando
Oliveira
Immanuel Bomze
Ruud Teunter
Robert Dyson
Emanuele Borgonovo
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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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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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
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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
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Sign up for alerts
CiteAlert & Issue e-Alert from Elsevier
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4000 subscribers of ScienceDirect Issue e-Alert for EJOR
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Access to EJOR via ScienceDirect
Number of User Accounts: ~ 8000
EJOR articles on line: 16 480
Downloads: 2,229,461 full papers in 2013
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Search in SCOPUS (All reviewers get 30-day free access to SCOPUS)
EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances
1999: 688 2005: 1402 2009: 2091 2014: 3206
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Amsterdam 2007
in 2013
Awards for reviewers who did an exceptional job by submitting timely, unbiased and thoughtful reviews – started in 2010
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Awards for reviewers
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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:
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Profile of EJOR by most popular keywords
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The most frequent primary keywords of 2013 submissions
Supply chain management 211 77%
Data envelopment analysis 159 72%
Inventory 127 79%
Scheduling 112 79%
Finance 98 77%
Game theory 93 77%
Transportation 83 74%
Decision analysis 74 79%
Logistics 70 79%
Multiple criteria analysis 69 78%
Combinatorial optimization 65 77%
Location 48 72%
Queueing 45 74%
Reliability 44 74%
Decision support systems 42 88%
Multiobjective programming 42 77%
Routing 42 48%
Economics 39 93%
Metaheuristics 38 72%
Simulation 36 74%
Fuzzy sets 34 91%
Risk management 34 80%
Evolutionary computations 33 85%
Uncertainty modelling 33 85% 21
Investment analysis 32 77%
OR in banking 31 95%
Production 31 85%
Facilities planning and design 30 77%
Heuristics 30 80%
Maintenance 30 83%
OR in energy 29 76%
OR in health services 29 64%
Pricing 29 79%
Data mining 28 73%
Nonlinear programming 27 83%
Stochastic programming 26 73%
Global optimization 25 90%
Manufacturing 25 86%
OR in marketing 25 77%
Project scheduling 24 87%
Artificial intelligence 23 94%
OR in Service Industries 23 84%
Dynamic programming 22 94%
Quality control 22 86%
Stochastic processes 21 71%
Forecasting 19 75%
Genetic algorithms 19 90%
OR in military 18 88%
rejection rate #
The most frequent primary keywords of 2013 submissions
Project management 18 77%
Integer programming 17 64%
Packing 17 56%
Control 16 83%
OR in natural resources 16 83%
Auctions/bidding 15 73%
OR in environment & clim. 15 50%
Revenue management 15 69%
Risk analysis 15 85%
Applied probability 14 67%
Graph theory 13 88%
Linear programming 13 88%
Productivity & competitiv. 13 75%
Time series 13 100%
Cutting 12 90%
OR in telecommunications 12 50%
Assignment 11 100%
Computing science 11 100%
Flexible manufacturing syst. 11 100%
Manpower planning 11 78%
Robustness & sensitivity anal. 11 57%
OR in research & development 10 100%
Strategic planning 10 70%
Goal programming 9 71%
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Networks 9 90%
OR in societal pr. analysis 9 43%
Problem structuring 9 33%
Retailing 9 90%
Travelling salesman 9 67%
Convex programming 8 86%
Group decisions & negotiations 8 67%
OR in medicine 8 100%
Purchasing 8 90%
Quality management 8 50%
Systems dynamics 8 83%
Complexity theory 7 100%
Markov processes 7 75%
OR in agriculture 7 83%
Quadratic programming 7 67%
Timetabling 7 100%
Utility theory 7 100%
Distributed decision making 6 50%
Multi-agent systems 6 89%
OR in Sports 6 50%
Conic Programming 5 100%
Cost benefit analysis 5 83%
Fractional programming 5 100%
Large scale optimization 5 20%
rejection rate #
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• The journal Impact Factor is the average number of times
articles from the journal published in the past two years have
been cited in the JCR year.
• 2013 Impact Factor for European Journal of Operational
Research:
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Impact Factor
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Journal Citation Report 2013 (Web of Science)
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Journal ranking by H-index – SCIMAGO
Journal ranking by H-index –
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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
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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
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Most Cited EJOR Papers (Web of Science, Jan. 2015)
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Most Cited EJOR Papers (Web of Science, Jan. 2015)
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Web of Science 2015
Geographical breakdown of corresponding authors in 2014
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Downloads of full-text articles from ScienceDirect
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Articles on line = 16 480 User Accounts ~ 8 000
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Average publication speed
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Submission to 1st decision: 13.9 weeks Author’s revision 15.3 weeks Revised submission to final disposition: 22.6 weeks
Author Feedback Program – benchmarking performance of EJOR
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Publ Services
Prod Speed
Editor/Board
Impact Factor
Audience
Ref Speed
Ref Standard
Reputation
Author Feedback Program – overall satisfaction
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Measurements per March 2014
Reputation of journal in OR field. (Author from United States aged 46-55) Fair review process. (Author from Germany aged 26-35) EJOR publishes very high quality papers with an interdisciplinary approach that covers multiple issues, a variety of methods, and its contributions are highly relevant for the literature. (Author from Netherlands aged 36-45)
EJOR
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
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How the editors are processing submitted manuscripts ?
Assess: readibility (English, style), motivations, relevance to practice
of decision making, weight of the methodological contribution
Immediately reject: if out of scope (bibliography is a good indicator),
bad style and use of English, weak or incremental contribution, ethical
problem (double submission, (self-)plagiarism may lead to 5-years ban)
Select and invite reviewers who:
recently published papers on a similar topic
used to accept invitation and sent sound reviews in the past
are unrelated to the authors by affiliation, co-authorship, location,…
How many reviewers and how they are found:
3 if possible (usually 6 trials)
search in SCOPUS, Google Scholar, inspired by references
suggested/opposed reviewers are +/- considered
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How the editors are processing submitted manuscripts ?
Make editorial decision:
reject if there are strong arguments against publication or even
major revision – error, incremental contribution, ill-founded
motivations, no relevance to foreseen practice of decision making
reject and encourage resubmission if the paper has some potential
and the work should be continued, but the paper needs to be
re-written in line of rich and constructive reviews
major revision (great majority of papers sent to reviewers)
if corrections/modifications and re-evaluation are necessary
(at a later stage, reject decision is not excluded )
major revision in conflict – then an additional reviewer (EB)
may be called in the next iteration
minor revision (typos, English) and acceptance
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Recommendations to reviewers
If you are invited to review a manuscript:
please, answer quickly on-line, either accepting or declining
the invitation
if you decline, please indicate the name + email of other potential
reviewers (recent PhD, young (assistant) professors, …)
for a revised version of a paper, which you reviewed in the previous
round, please accept (even if your opinion remains negative)
after accepting the invitation, please upload the report on time
try to explain the considered problem and express your opinion
in a comprehensible and constructive way
if the paper is interesting but needs too much work for being
corrected in the due time, suggest rejection and re-submission
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Recommendations to authors
Take care of all remarks of the reviewers; if a reviewer does not
understand everything, that’s because the paper was not clear enough
When sending a revised version, please answer all remarks of
reviewers, separately to each reviewer, and explain in detail all
the changes you have done in the revised version
If you wish to submit a survey paper, please contact one of the
editors by e-mail first – then you may be invited to upload your paper
to EES as an Invited Review
Please submit your best papers to EJOR !
As EJOR is the journal of European OR, we strongly count on
European authors !
How to write about Operational Research
A unified design for any OR publication:
What is the problem?
Why is this problem important?
How others approached this problem and what they missed?
What are you doing to solve this problem?
How will we know when you have succeeded?
If you do not address each of these elements in your outline, stop.
Identify the audience:
local or international?
mathematical or non-mathematical?
in a well-defined sector of OR or accross some sectors?
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How to write about Operational Research
Word of caution: PLAGIARISM & DOUBLE SUBMISSION
Do not plagiarise others and even yourself
Cite properly the related prior work of others
Cite your own work (without exaggeration), in particular the similar
one, and specify the „added value”
Do not submit your work simultaneously to more than one journal
Avoid incremental publishing scattered over different journals
Short papers (from proceedings, LNCS, LNAI, LNMES, IEEE, etc.)
can be extended to journal publications if the added material brings
at least 50% more new results (generalization of the approach, new
special cases, new properties, new computational experiment, etc.)
New: since October 2013, Elsevier introduced the cross-check of all
new submissions, powered by iThenticate 44
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How to write about Operational Research
How to write about Operational Research
Choosing the right journal
Do your article fits with the Aims & Scope of the journal?
Is your work based on publications that appeared in the journal?
Check if the journal meets the article deposition requirement
of your funding body or institution – open access (OA)
• full and free OA
• gold OA (1800$)
• green OA (embargo time – 36m)
Check the Guide for Authors for the type of article published
and for the writing style (article length)
Ask for advice from your supervisor or colleagues
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check the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License
What is allowed after publication of a manuscript ?
Immediately: Accepted Author Manuscript (AAM) can be posted on an author’s
webpage, shared with colleagues, or used for teaching purposes, immediately.
It can also be posted to the author’s institutional repository unless the institution
mandates such postings for systematic distribution. In that case, the embargo
period would apply.
After 24 months: Posting of AAM on author’s institutional repository for public
access, where there is a mandate from the relevant funding body (e.g. RCUK).
After 36 months: Posting of AAM onto any repository, including those which
have an open access policy or mandate that requires authors to post.
In order to post the typeset version of the paper, authors will need to pay for
the „Gold” open access model, rather than obtaining the free „Green” OA.
If authors chose to pay the OA fee, their paper will also appear in the OA section
of EJOR’s ScienceDirect page, so that papers are more visible:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03772217/open-access
The full details can be found at:
http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/green-open-access
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How to write about Operational Research – your manuscript
Short but informative title, authors, abstract (150-200 words), keywords
Avoid technical jargon, embellishments and abbreviations
3 x C (complete, concise, clear)
Use illustrations to tell your story (use a legend and self-explanatory
caption to each figure and table)
Start each paragraph with a topic sentence – no switching topics
in the middle of the paragraph
Define your terms before you use them; avoid excessive symbolism
Do not use the footnotes; do not (nest (parenthetic phrases))
Use active voice, e.g., instead of „students were the listeners of the
course”, write „students listened the course”
Use present tense for the facts and hypotheses; use the past tense
when you refer to experiments you have conducted
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• No. It is the author’s responsibility to make sure his paper is in
its best possible form when submitted for publication
• However:
• Publishers often provide resources for authors who are less
familiar with the conventions of international journals. Please
check your publishers’ author website for more information.
• Elsevier performs technical screening prior to peer review.
• Visit http://webshop.elsevier.com for Elsevier’s translation and
language editing services.
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Do Publishers Correct Language?
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• Investigate all candidate journals, to find out
• Aims and scope
• Accepted types of articles
• Readership and whether Open Access options are offered
• Current hot topics
• You could use the Journal Finder Tool at www.elsevier.com/authors
• Make sure you read the journal’s Guide for Authors!
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Choose the Right Journal
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The Journal Homepage
Metrics
Info for Readers
Calls for papers
Latest News
Info for Authors
Updates
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The Process of Writing – Building the Article
Methods Results Discussion
Conclusion
Figures/Tables (your data)
Introduction
Title & Abstract
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