title: Journal of the Operational Research Society
text: # Journal of the Operational Research Society
  
  The Journal of the Operational Research Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering operations research. It is an official journal of The Operational Research Society and has been in existence since 1950. It publishes full length case-oriented papers, full length theoretical papers, technical notes, discussions (viewpoints) and book reviews.
  
  ## History
  
  The journal began as Operational Research Quarterly in 1950. At that time it was published by the Operational Research Club (Great Britain). It was published four times a year until 1978 (from 1953 to 1969 under the title OR) when it became a monthly publication and the name was changed to Journal of the Operational Research Society.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed by ABI/INFORM, Compendex, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Current Contents/Social & Behavioural Sciences, Inspec, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH.
  
  ## Scope
  
  Some idea of the scope and contents of the journal can be found in a survey of papers published during the period 2000–2009.
  
  * 51.7% of papers were theoretical while 31.3% were case-orientated.
  