RAIRO - Operations Research

Aims & Scope

RAIRO-Operations Research is an international journal devoted to high-level pure and applied research on all aspects of operations research.

All papers published in RAIRO-Operations Research are critically refereed according to international standards.

Any paper will either be accepted (possibly with minor revisions) either submitted to another evaluation (after a major revision) or rejected.

Every effort will be made by the Editorial Board to ensure a first answer concerning a submitted paper within three months, and a final decision in a period of time not exceeding six months.

RAIRO-Operations Research contains the following types of papers: theory and methodology papers; case studies describing the solution to an actual problem arising, for example, in Transports, Telecommunications, Production Systems, Financial Planning, Computational Biology, Energy or Computer Science; state-of-the art surveys that provide a synthesis and comprehensive review of one particular area of interest.

Apart from regular issues, RAIRO-Operations Research publishes special issues which focus on an Operations Research topic of current interest or which are devoted to a selection of conference papers.

The papers of these special issues will be subjected to the same rigorous refereeing process as regular submissions.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	2.1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.437

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	39

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12942

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1668

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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 Computer Science, Decision Sciences and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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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.

• A heuristic column generation method for the heterogeneous fleet VRP

  Citation: 251

  Authors: E. D.

• Balancing the stations of a self service “bike hire” system

  Citation: 194

  Authors: Mike, Pascal, Benoît, Arnaud, Fabien, Frédéric, Ludovic

• Parametric integer programming

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Paul

• Ordonnancements à contraintes disjonctives

  Citation: 148

  Authors: Jacques

• Genetic algorithm based approach to bi-level linear programming

  Citation: 139

  Authors: R., L., G.

• Solving the simple plant location problem by genetic algorithm

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Jozef, Dušan, Vladimir, Ivana

• A Branch-and-Bound method for solving Multi-Skill Project Scheduling Problem

  Citation: 100

  Authors: Odile, Emmanuel

• An Exact Method for Solving the Multi-Processor Flow-Shop

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Jacques, Emmanuel

• An integrated inventory model involving discrete setup cost reduction, variable safety factor, selling price dependent demand, and investment

  Citation: 93

  Authors: Bikash Koli, Biswajit, Mitali, Sarla

• Extension of stochastic dominance theory to random variables

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Chi-Kwong, Wing-Keung

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