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Operations Research for Health Care Note from the Editor of Operations Research for Health Care

"When asked to become Editor, I was excited by the opportunity to shape an international journal that contains not just technically excellent research, but research that aims to address the gap between what is possible and what is achieved in Health OR."

Read Martin Utley’s Full Note


Socio-Economic Planning Sciences Note from the Editor-in-Chief of SEPS

Please click here to read ‘Starting a New Era for SEPS’, from the Editor-in-Chief, Vedat Verter.


New Journal: Operations Research for Health Care

Operations Research for Health Care
will be edited by Martin Utley, Director of the Clinical Operational Research Unit of University College London.
Launching in January 2012, the journal will focus on the development and use of operations research techniques in health and health care. It will publish high-quality operations research approaches to problems in health care from OR researchers and practitioners, as well as clinicians and those working directly in health policy.

Find out more and register your interest on the journal homepage.

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External link  Incoming Co-Editor-in-Chief Announcement

Please External linkclick here for the announcement.


Cover External linkFirst Volume of Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science freely available to read online

The first volume of Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science is now freely available to read online. Published as Volume 16, it follows on from the renowned Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science series.

Read the first Volume free via External linkScienceDirect.

 

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Calls for Papers

Meta-Heuristics for Manufacturing Scheduling and Logistics Problems
International Journal of Production Economics
Submission Deadline: 15 October 2011

External linkRiskLab Essay Contest in decision engineering under Risk (Ecder)
Systems Engineering Procedia
Submission Deadline: 30 October 2011

External linkRisk Management in Technological Innovation
Technovation
Submission Deadline: 30 November 2011

External linkEnergy Modeling
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2011

Planning and Foresight Methodologies in Emergency Preparedness and Management
Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2011

Scenario Method: Current developments in theory and practice
Technological Forecasting & Social Change
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2011

External linkBirge Essay Contest on Optimization under Risk (Becor)
Systems Engineering Procedia
Submission Deadline: 30 December 2011

Hierarchical Optimization and its Application in Engineering
Computers & Operations Research
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2011

External linkHealth Care Modeling
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
Submission Deadline: 1 January 2012

Manufacturing Practice in China: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology
International Journal of Production Economics
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2012

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Impact Factor News
Journal of Operations Management JOM awarded Impact Factor of 5.093

The 2010 Impact Factor for Journal of Operations Management has been announced as 5.093, an increase from the 2009 IF of 3.238. JOM continues to rank 1st out of 74 journals in the ‘Operations Research & Management Science’ category, and is now 4th out of 140 in the ‘Management’ category.

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Information and Organization Information and Organization to receive Impact Factor

From the first issue of Vol. 18 (2008), Information and Organization will be included in the Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents (Social and Behavioural Sciences) and will receive its Impact Factor in the 2011 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (Social Sciences Edition), released in June 2012.


Cover European Journal of Operational Research – IndexCopernicus

The European Journal of Operational Research has received an External linkIndex Copernicus Value of 21.42, highlighting its relevance to the medical and health communities as well as operational research

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Special Issues

 

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Top Downloaded Articles
Top Downloaded Articles

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2011 Conferences

External linkINFORMS Annual Meeting
13-16 November 2011 
Charlotte, North Carolina

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New Journal Editors
Journal of Operations Management New Editors-in-Chief for Journal of Operations Management

We are pleased to introduce Thomas Choi (Arizona State University) and Daniel Guide (Pennsylvania State University) as the incoming editors of JOM. Please click here to read the Announcement.

We thank the outgoing Editors, Kenneth Boyer and Morgan L. Swink, for their hard work on the journal over the past five years. Please click here to read their outgoing Note.


Information & Management New Co-Editor for Information & Management

I&M is pleased to introduce Patrick Y.K. Chau as the incoming Co-Editor-in-Chief.

Please click here to read the Announcement.

 

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