Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS)

The Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) presents papers that typically cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of OR.

Access

Full papers are only accessible to paying members of the society.

Non-members who have registered with the website (e.g. as part of submitting an abstract, or booking a conference) do not have access to full JORS papers.

Scope

The Journal of the Operational Research Society is published 12 times a year by Taylor & Francis on behalf of The OR Society. It is the aim of the Journal to present papers which are relevant to practitioners, researchers, teachers, students and consumers of operational research, and which cover the theory, practice, history or methodology of OR. However, since OR. is primarily an applied science, it is a major objective of the Journal to attract and publish accounts of good, practical case studies. Consequently, papers illustrating applications of OR. to real problems are especially welcome.

  • Real applications of OR - forecasting, inventory, investment, location, logistics, maintenance, marketing, packing, purchasing, production, project management, reliability and scheduling
  • A wide variety of environments - community OR, education, energy, finance, government, health services, manufacturing industries, mining, sports, and transportation
  • Technical approaches - decision support systems, expert systems, heuristics, networks, mathematical programming, multicriteria decision methods, problems structuring methods, queues, and simulation

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JORS Webinars

JORS Gender Equality Webinar

This webinar discussed the paper 'Gender equality: opportunities and challenges for the OR community'. It was hosted by Paula Carroll and Annunziata Esposito Amideo, the authors of the discussion paper.

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JORS Research in Focus Webinar Series

Prof. Dr Emel Aktas (Cranfield University), one of the JORS AEs, hosts the first couple of webinars in this series. Each webinar is focused on a different paper and Emel is joined by the authors of the paper, to give you more insight into their work. 

First Webinar - 'Enhancing systemic thinking by sharing experiences of reading literary fiction using causal mapping' by Leila Abuabara and Alberto Paucar-Caceres.

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Second webinar - 'A load and time-dependent hazardous materials distribution problem in urban areas' by Eleni Karouti, Konstantinos N. Androutsopoulos & Konstantinos G. Zografos.

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Third webinar - 'To aggregate or not to aggregate: Forecasting of finite autocorrelated demand' by Bahman Rostami-Tabar, M. Zied Babai, and Aris Syntetos.

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Fourth webinar - 'Understanding participant engagement in problem structuring using self determination theory' by Katharina Burger.

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Call for papers

Exploring complementarities and differences between Operational Research and Generative AI to Transform Operations
Closing Date: 30 June 2025

Discussion Papers

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Critical Review Papers

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