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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

Editors:

Roman Słowiński, PL (Co-ordinating Editor)

Emanuele Borgonovo, I

Robert Dyson, UK

José-Fernando Oliveira, P

Steffen Rebennack, D

Ruud Teunter, NL

Publisher: Simon Jones

Journal Manager: Caroline Muttram

Managing Editor: Louise Tyler

Marketing Manager: Parveen Dhillon

Established in 1977, sponsored by EURO

Volume: ~ 9 000 pages/year, in 24 issues

Total cites: 48 466 in 2018 (1st of 84 OR & MS)

JCR 2-y Impact Factor 2018 = 3.8

JCR 5-y Impact Factor 2018 = 4.28

CiteScore 2018 (3y IF) = 4.98

# full text downloads via ScienceDirect>3 mln/y

# new submissions per year (2018): 3 866

Latest : Vol. 279, No. 1, 16 November 2019

www.elsevier.com/locate/ejor/

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José-Fernando OliveiraSteffen Rebennack

Ruud Teunter

Robert Dyson

Emanuele Borgonovo

Roman Słowiński

THE EDITORS 2019

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

From Editorial Policy

The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)

publishes high quality, original papers that contribute to

the methodology of Operational Research (OR) and to

the practice of decision making.

The relation with ongoing research should be demonstrated

by providing proper reference to the recent OR literature.

With application papers, originality should be demonstrated by

applying OR to a problem with interesting new aspects or by

providing fresh insights leading to successful implementation.

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

From Editorial Policy

EJOR welcomes the following types of papers:

Invited Reviews, explaining to the general OR audience

the developments in an OR topic over the recent years

Innovative Applications of OR, describing novel ways

to solve real problems

Theory and Methodology Papers, presenting original

research results contributing to the methodology of OR

and to its theoretical foundations,

Short Communications, if they correct important defficiencies

of papers recently published in EJOR

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

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OPEN ACCESS OPTIONS

• All articles published with gold open access will be immediately

and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

• The gold open access publication fee for EJOR is USD 2200.

• According to green open access, an author can self-archive their

accepted manuscript immediately and enable public access from

their institution's repository after an embargo period of 24 months.

• https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access

Issue e-Alert for EJOR by Elsevier

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CiteAlert from Elsevier

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My Research Dashboard – www.myresearchdashboard.com

A free service that replaces Usage Alerts and CiteAlerts, My Research

Dashboard is available through Mendeley to all Elsevier authors.

My Research Dashboard provides:

Early feedback about how papers are being downloaded, shared and cited

Data on where in the world and what discipline readers are in

Detailed information about how papers are being discovered

Powered by Scopus

& ScienceDirect,

the Dashboard captures

citation data for all of an

author’s articles published

in any journal, as well as

usage data for all the

articles they have published

in Elsevier journals.

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EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances

13Aceptance rate 2018: 19%

EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances

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Aceptance rate 2018: 19%

EJOR – published articles by access type

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EJOR – number of editors’ and reviewers’ tasks

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Ratio of invited

to completed = 45.7% (46.3%)

In average 2018 (2017):

5.9 (5.8) reviewers invited/acc. article

2.7 (2.7) reviewers completed/acc. article

5.4 (5.3) reviews used/acc. article

Peer Reviews per Accepted Article

Feature Clusters in EJOR

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Articles Special Item Group Name Year Volume Issue

11 SI: Maritime Logistics 2014 235/2

20 SI: Routing and Logistics 2014 236/3

13 SI: Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization 2015 243/2

7 SI: EURO/INFORMS 2013 2015 244/1

11 SI: Sustainable Scheduling 2015 248/3

5 SI: Stochastic Optimization 2015 249/1

14 SI: Credit Risk Modelling 2015 249/2

24 SI: Behavioural OR 2015 249/3

12 SI: Exact Multiobjective Optimization 2017 260/3

9 SI: MCDA Learning 2017 264/2

19 SI: OR in practice 2017 264/3

32 SI: Community OR 2018 268/3

29 SI: OR Approaches for Sustainability 2018 269/1

28 SI: Humanitarian Operations 2018 269/2

33 SI: EURO 2016 - Extending the OR Horizons 2018 270/3

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Search in SCOPUS (All reviewers get 30-day free access to SCOPUS)

Awards for reviewers

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EJOR R-index based on data from EES reviewer performance report

avg # days to respond (x1) – weight w1=1.0 – decreasing

avg # days to complete (x2) – weight w2=1.0 – decreasing

# times submitted on time (x3) – weight w3=2.0 – increasing

# times submitted late (x4) – weight w4=1.0 – increasing

# times terminated after acceptance (x5) – decreasing

weight w5=2.0 if #rem>1, 0 otherwise

avg utility score (50-100%) (x6) – weight w6=0.1 – increasing

The EJOR R-index for the generic reviewer:

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Reports that got less than 50% utility score were excluded

Awards for reviewers who did an outstanding job by submitting timely, unbiased and thoughtful reviews – started in 2010

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Reviewers awarded in 2019 for their work in 2018:

Mike Tsionas 109.3

Lorenzo Peccati 81.3

Christos Koulamas 78.8

Ruben Ruiz 70.8

Constantin Zopounidis 63.3

Gilbert Laporte 59.5

Joe Zhu 57.5

Michalis Doumpos 56.8

Maria Recchioni 56.3

Frank Fabozzi 55.8

Victor Podinovski 54.7

Nicky Rogge 54.4

Stefan Lessmann 51.0

J. Cole Smith 50.8

Sigrid Knust 50.7

Michael Mortenson 50.0

Jose M. Framinan 49.3

Nils Boysen 48.8

Milosz Kadzinski 48.4

Maxim Dulebenets 48.3

Giovanni Rabitti 48.1

Afzal Siddiqui 47.8

Rosario Scatamacchia 47.3

Florian Jaehn 46.9

Arda Yenipazarli 46.7

Pekka Salminen 46.7

Stefan Minner 46.3

Daniele Manerba 45.8

James Taylor 45.8

Salvatore Corrente 45.7

Sebastian Lozano 45.6

Rudolf Vetschera 45.1

Mikhail Kovalyov 45.1

Gilvan Souza 44.8

Ramon Alvarez-Valdes 44.8

Tieming Liu 44.6

Nickolaos Tzeremes 44.3

Salvatore Greco 44.3

José M. V. de Carvalho 44.2

Marc Goerigk 44.2

Laszlo Csato 43.9

Samuel Kirshner 43.8

John Lamb 43.6

Asil Oztekin 43.6

Rym M'Hallah 43.4

Marco Cinelli 43.3

Antonis Economou 43.3

George J. Kyparisis 43.2

Giles Hindle 43.1

Awards for reviewers who did an outstanding job by submitting timely, unbiased and thoughtful reviews – started in 2010

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Average Editorial Speed for All Submitted Manuscripts

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Average Editorial & Publication Speed for Published Articles

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Submission to Acceptance, Compared (2012-2016)

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Top 50 keyphrases by relevance over the period 2014-2018

Packing 0,26 -30,8

Local search 0,25 91,7

Multi-objective optimization 0,25 466,7

Queueing 0,25 160

Branch-and-cut 0,24 116,7

Mixed integer programming 0,24 57,1

Branch-and-price 0,24 300

Lot sizing 0,24 -8,3

Pricing 0,23 112,5

Portfolio optimization 0,23 1400

Revenue management 0,23 100

Global optimization 0,22 -16,7

Traveling salesman problem 0,22 140

Risk management 0,22 266,7

Mixed integer linear programming 0,21 420

Benders decomposition 0,21 233,3

Time windows 0,2 18,2

Facility location 0,2 -38,5

Heuristics 0,2 102

Investment analysis 0,2 200

Real options 0,2 800

Pickup and delivery 0,2 25

Assignment problem 0,19 42,9

Decision support systems 0,19 125

Inventory control 0,19 50

Keyphrase Relevance Growth %

Data envelopment analysis 1 -10,7

Supply chain management 1 12,1

Combinatorial optimization 0,67 119

Integer programming 0,63 66,7

Game theory 0,55 0

Decision analysis 0,54 100

Operational research 0,53 -35,7

Inventory 0,51 48,9

Routing 0,46 61,5

Supply chain 0,46 22,5

Column generation 0,41 142,9

Robust optimization 0,41 33,3

OR in energy 0,4 275

Vehicle routing 0,39 140

Metaheuristics 0,38 47,4

Scheduling 0,38 102,6

Vehicle routing problem 0,38 -40

Stochastic programming 0,38 66,7

Routing problem 0,36 0

Multiple criteria analysis 0,36 266,7

Multiple objective programming 0,35 42,9

Dynamic programming 0,31 13

Network design 0,3 0

Uncertainty modeling 0,27 0

Transportation 0,27 20

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Web of Science JCR 2018

Web of Science JCR 2018

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Cited half-life in 2018 = 9.9 years

Self-citations in 2018 = 14%

EJORIF=3.806

MedianIF=1.693

Web of Science JCR 2018

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Journal ranking by H-index – 2018

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Journal ranking by Association of Business Schools in UK

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Top 10 Countries 2018: Rejection Rate

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Downloads of Full-Text Articles (FTA) from ScienceDirect

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Articles on line ~ 17 100

ScienceDirect Usage: Top 5 Countries Last Year (2018)

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How the editors are processing submitted manuscripts ?

Assess: readibility (English, style), motivations, relevance to practice

of decision making, weight of the methodological contribution

Immediately reject: if out of scope (bibliography is a good indicator),

bad style and use of English, weak or incremental contribution, ethical

problem (double submission, (self-)plagiarism may lead to 5-years ban)

Select and invite reviewers who:

recently published papers on a similar topic

used to accept invitation and sent sound reviews in the past

are unrelated to the authors by affiliation, co-authorship, location,…

How many reviewers and how they are found:

3 if possible (usually 6-8 trials)

search in SCOPUS, Google Scholar, inspired by references

suggested/opposed reviewers are +/- considered

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Managing Editor since 2016 (Louise Tyler)

The move from selective „technical screening” to having the ME

screening all papers and assessing the level of English

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Recommendations to reviewers

If you are invited to review a manuscript:

please, answer quickly on-line, either accepting or declining

the invitation

if you decline, please indicate the name + email of other potential

reviewers (recent PhD, young (assistant) professors, …)

for a revised version of a paper, which you reviewed in the previous

round, please accept (even if your opinion remains negative)

after accepting the invitation, please upload the report on time

try to explain the considered problem and express your opinion

in a comprehensible and constructive way

if the paper is interesting but needs too much work for being

corrected in the due time, suggest rejection and re-submission

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Recommendations to authors

Take care of all remarks of the reviewers; if a reviewer does not

understand everything, that’s because the paper was not clear enough

When sending a revised version, please answer all remarks of

reviewers, separately to each reviewer, and explain in detail all

the changes you have done in the revised version

If you wish to submit a survey paper, please contact one of the

editors by e-mail first – then you may be invited to upload your paper

to EES as an Invited Review

For an accepted paper, you can post your accepted manuscript

immediately to an institutional repository and make this publicly

available after an embargo period of 24 months has expired.

For gold open access articles, you can post your published journal

article and immediately make it publicly available.

(https://authors.elsevier.com/authorform/staticpage/definitions.do?lang=English#publishedJournalArticle

https://www.elsevier.com/authors/journal-authors/submit-your-paper/sharing-and-promoting-your-article)

Word of caution: PLAGIARISM & DOUBLE SUBMISSION

Do not plagiarise others and even yourself

Cite properly the related prior work of others

Cite your own work (without exaggeration), in particular the similar

one, and specify the „added value”

Do not submit your work simultaneously to more than one journal

Avoid incremental publishing scattered over different journals

Short papers (e.g., from conference proceedings) can be extended to

journal publications if the added material brings at least 75% more

new results and there is no copyright problem (generalization of the

approach, new special cases, new properties, new experiments, etc.)

Since 2013, Elsevier introduced the cross-check of all new submissions,

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