Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization

Aims & Scope

JIMO is an international journal devoted to publishing peer-reviewed, high quality, original papers on the non-trivial interplay between numerical optimization methods and practically significant problems in industry or management so as to achieve superior design, planning and/or operation.

Its objective is to promote collaboration between optimization specialists, industrial practitioners and management scientists so that important practical industrial and management problems can be addressed by the use of appropriate, recent advanced optimization techniques.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.20

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14077

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1423

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.389

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	44

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Business, Management and Accounting and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Ambulance routing in disaster response considering variable patient condition: NSGA-II and MOPSO algorithms

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Masoud, Nastaran, Niloofar

• A robust time-cost-quality-energy-environment trade-off with resource-constrained in project management: A case study for a bridge construction project

  Citation: 91

  Authors: Reza, Zahra, Seyed Hossein, Amir Hossein, Erfan Babaee, Gerhard-Wilhelm

• An inventory control problem for deteriorating items with back-ordering and financial considerations under two levels of trade credit linked to order quantity

  Citation: 72

  Authors: Mohsen, Ata Allah, Shib Sankar

• Managing risk and disruption in production-inventory and supply chain systems: A review

  Citation: 61

  Authors: Sanjoy Kumar, Ruhul, Daryl

• Multi-item deteriorating two-echelon inventory model with price- and stock-dependent demand: A trade-credit policy

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Magfura, Sankar Kumar, Gerhard

• A hybrid metaheuristic algorithm for the multi-objective location-routing problem in the early post-disaster stage

  Citation: 43

  Authors: Tongren, Fuqiang, Suxin, Leizhen, Hualing

• Just-in-time scheduling in identical parallel machine sequence-dependent group scheduling problem

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Alireza, Taha

• Nonsingular $H$-tensor and its criteria

  Citation: 36

  Authors: Yiju, Guanglu, Louis

• A new supply chain design to solve supplier selection based on internet of things and delivery reliability

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Azam, Mostafa, Vahideh Bafandegan, Pardis

• Stability analysis of a delayed social epidemics model with general contact rate and its optimal control

  Citation: 33

  Authors: Xun-Yang, Khalid, Hai-Feng, Hong

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