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Eurpean Journal of Operational Research How to Get Published & Cited in Academic Journals 2016

Roman Słowiński

Poznań University of Technology and Polish Academy of Sciences

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Elsevier & Operations Research

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (EJOR)

Editors:

Roman Słowiński, PL (Co-ordinating Editor)

Immanuel Bomze, A

Emanuele Borgonovo, I

Robert Dyson, UK

José-Fernando Oliveira, P

Ruud Teunter, NL

Publisher: Jessica Bibb Journal Manager: Kate Partner Marketing Manager: Jenny Ellis

Established in 1977, sponsored by EURO

Volume: ~ 8 400 pages/year, in 24 issues

Total cites: 31 744 in 2015 (1st of 82 OR & MS) JCR 5-y Impact Factor 2015 = 3.109

Last issue published (status of June 22, 2016): vol. 255, no.1, 16 November 2016

# of new submissions per year: > 3 200 Acceptance rate in 2015: ~ 19%

www.elsevier.com/locate/ejor/

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Jose-Fernando Oliveira

Immanuel Bomze

Ruud Teunter

Robert Dyson Emanuele Borgonovo Roman Słowiński

THE EDITORS

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Immanuel Bomze

Ruud Teunter


THE EDITORS

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Immanuel Bomze

Ruud Teunter


Jessica Bibb Publisher

THE EDITORS

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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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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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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Theory and Methodology Papers are classified into one of the seven headings:

• Continuous Optimization

• Discrete Optimization

• Production, Manufacturing and Logistics

• Stochastics and Statistics

• Decision Support

• Computational Intelligence and Information Management

• Interfaces with Other Disciplines

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The Homepage

Metrics

Info for Readers

Calls for papers

Latest News

Info for Authors

Updates

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gold OA (1800$) green OA (embargo time – 36m)

Issue e-Alert for EJOR by Elsevier

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CiteAlert from Elsevier

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EJOR – evolution of submissions and acceptances

1999: 688 2005: 1402 2009: 2091 2015: 3214

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Recent Special Issues/Feature Clusters :

• Community Operational Research

• Behavioural OR

• New Developments in Credit Risk Modelling

• Sustainable Scheduling of Manufacturing

and Transportation Systems

• EURO/INFORMS 2013 Conference

• Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

EJOR – number of editors’ and reviewers’ tasks in 2015

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Ratio of invited to completed = 43.5%

In average:

2.4 reviewers/acc. paper

4.6 reviews/acc. paper

Papers accepted by Editors

2013 2014 2015

Billaut, J.-C. 114 117 120 Bomze, I. 111 116 100 Borgonovo, E. ---- ---- 26 Dyson, R. 148 122 122 Oliveira, J.F. ---- ---- 33 Peccati, L. 85 137 139 Slowinski, R. 95 117 109 Teunter, R. ---- ---- 19 Guest Editors 65 21 43

Total 618 630 711

in 2015

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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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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 2016 for their work in 2015:

Koulamas Christos 41,2Kadzinski Milosz 40,3Laporte Gilbert 37,6Morton Alec 36,7Zopounidis Constantin 35,9Doumpos Michael 35,4Kao Chiang 33,1Barros Carlos 31,9Boysen Nils 31,7Podinovski Victor 31,6Ruiz Ruben 30,8Lamb John 29,1Vetschera Rudolf 29,0Gutjahr Walter 28,9Lorentziadis Panos 27,1

Brandenburg Marcus 27,1Ormerod Richard 27,0Zhu Joe 26,6Kyparisis George J. 26,3Zhu Xiang 26,2Matarazzo Benedetto 25,4Minner Stefan 25,2Eglese Richard 25,2Kovalyov Mikhail 24,9Tsionas Efthymios 24,6Kuosmanen Timo 24,6Beliën Jeroen 24,6Cillo Alessandra 24,6Leng Mingming 24,6Thomas Lyn 24,4

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

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Review speed in EJOR

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The most frequent primary keywords of 2015 new submissions

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(T) Supply chain management 208 83%(D) Data envelopment analysis 192 78%(B) Finance 147 82%(S) Scheduling 128 71%(T) Inventory 122 87%(B) Decision analysis 95 84%(O) Combinatorial optimization 77 67%(O) Transportation 72 65%(S) Multiple objective programming 67 65%(I) Game theory 65 89%(S) Multiple criteria analysis 64 79%(I) OR in energy 63 64%(S) Decision support systems 61 76%(O) OR in health services 60 69%(O) Routing 51 52%(T) Forecasting 49 82%(I) Queueing 44 78%(O) Location 44 70%(D) Economics 41 80%(B) Reliability 39 79%(T) Production 38 66%(B) Pricing 37 82%(T) Logistics 37 75%

(Editor) KEYWORD # subm. rejection (B) Simulation 35 77%(T) Manufacturing 34 80%(D) OR in marketing 33 74%(I) Stochastic programming 33 74%(T) Maintenance 33 77%(B) Risk management 30 71%(B) Uncertainty modelling 30 76%(O) Metaheuristics 29 78%(S) Project scheduling 28 69%(D) Behavioural OR 27 68%(I) Applied probability 27 82%(I) Nonlinear programming 26 90%(I) Quality control 26 90%(S) Evolutionary computations 26 84%(B) OR in banking 25 81%(D) OR in environment and climate c 25 65%(S) Artificial intelligence 25 91%(I) Networks 24 81%(S) Fuzzy sets 24 90%(I) Control 23 90%(I) Facilities planning and design 23 86%(O) Heuristics 23 85%(I) Data mining 22 84%(B) Investment analysis 21 86%(D) Analytics 21 78%

The most frequent primary keywords of 2015 submissions

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(D) OR in research and development 21 80%(O) OR in maritime industry 21 100%(B) Risk analysis 20 81%(B) Quality management 19 76%(I) Stochastic processes 19 89%(O) Packing 19 68%(S) Group decisions and negotiations 19 92%(D) Decision processes 18 94%(D) OR in sports 18 75%(B) Project management 17 70%(D) E-commerce 17 93%(D) OR in natural resources 17 67%(D) Productivity and competitiveness 17 85%(T) OR in defense 17 82%(D) Systems dynamics 16 81%(I) Linear programming 16 81%(I) Integer programming 15 40%(O) OR in disaster relief 15 78%(O) Travelling salesman 14 62%(S) Dynamic programming 14 50%(D) Strategic planning 13 80%(I) Multivariate statistics 13 78%(O) Constraint programming 13 82%(O) Humanitarian logistics 13 63%(O) OR in service industries 13 78%

(S) Assignment 13 92%(B) Computing science 12 85%(D) Multi-agent systems 12 100%(D) Revenue management 12 71%(I) Convex programming 12 89%(I) Global optimization 12 57%(I) Graph theory 12 100%(O) Genetic algorithms 12 87%(D) OR in government 11 60%(D) OR in societal problem analysis 11 67%(D) Problem structuring 11 64%(I) OR in telecommunications 11 80%(B) Robustness and sensitivity analysis 10 71%(B) Utility theory 10 80%(D) Auctions/bidding 10 70%(D) OR in agriculture 10 60%(I) Large scale optimization 8 86%(O) Education 8 100%(S) Complexity theory 8 100%(S) Knowledge-based systems 8 89%(O) Retailing 7 50%(O) Timetabling 7 40%(S) Goal programming 7 86%(D) Cost benefit analysis 6 75%(I) Traffic 6 100%

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Journal Citation Report 2015 (Web of Science)

EJOR IF=2.679 75th percentile Q1

25th percentile Q4

median IF

82 journals

EJOR Article Influence Score (AIS)

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Journal Citation Report 2015 (Web of Science)

Top twenty journals citing EJOR in 2015

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Size of each arc is indicative of the relative citation relationship. Thickness of chords connecting the arcs shows the strength of citation relationship.

Top twenty journals cited by EJOR in 2015

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Size of each arc is indicative of the relative citation relationship. Thickness of chords connecting the arcs shows the strength of citation relationship.

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Journal ranking by H-index – SCIMAGO 2015

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EJOR > 39%

SCIMAGO

The ratio of articles signed by authors from more than 1 country

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SCIMAGO

EJOR Self-Cites < 15%

The evolution of the average number of times papers published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor

Journal ranking by H-index –

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_operationsresearch

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SNIP – Source Normalized Impact per Paper – Scopus

SNIP measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field

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Total citations – Scopus

EJOR 38947

MS 21878

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Impact per publication by year – Scopus

IPP measures the ratio of citations in a year (Y) to papers published in the 3 previous years (Y-1, Y-2, Y-3) divided by the number of papers published in those same years (Y-1, Y-2, Y-3) EJOR

Journal ranking in UK – Association of Business Schools (ABS)

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Journal ranking in Germany - the 2015 VHB-Journal Ranking

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The VHB is the association of all Professors teaching for business administration in Germany. Over 1.100 professors participate in the evaluation of 934 journals. A score has been given to 11.1% of journals

Journal ranking in Brazil - Qualis rating by area

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Journal ranking in Brazil - Qualis rating by area

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10 most downloaded articles (Q4-2015)

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Geographical breakdown of corresponding authors in 2015

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Geographical breakdown of submissions and rejections in 2015

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China 557 87%United States 317 71%United Kingdom 214 70%Iran 205 96%India 201 94%Germany 132 58%Spain 115 66%France 114 69%Taiwan 109 89%Italy 108 66%Canada 105 60%Turkey 89 87%Brazil 77 78%Korea, Republic of 69 84%Netherlands 61 60%Belgium 49 55%Australia 48 66%Greece 41 73%Japan 35 78%Hong Kong 33 62%Portugal 30 63%Norway 29 76%Singapore 28 88%Poland 28 77%

Country # subm. rejection Israel 26 63%Denmark 22 52%Chile 18 65%Malaysia 17 100%Finland 17 74%Saudi Arabia 16 94%Switzerland 16 74%Russian Federation 15 100%Austria 15 44%Pakistan 14 100%Mexico 13 92%Tunisia 13 91%Egypt 12 90%Thailand 12 85%Hungary 12 67%Sweden 11 88%Czech Republic 11 70%Colombia 11 69%Nigeria 9 100%New Zealand 9 55%South Africa 8 100%Republic of Serbia 7 100%Algeria 6 80%United Arab Emirates 6 75%

Macedonia 5 100%Slovenia 5 100%Lebanon 5 86%Macao 5 86%Argentina 5 80%Slovakia 5 75%Ireland 5 50%Kuwait 5 33%Croatia 4 100%Jordan 4 100%Luxembourg 4 100%Viet Nam 4 75%Ecuador 3 100%Indonesia 3 100%Korea, DPR 3 100%Bangladesh 2 100%Cyprus 2 100%Morocco 2 100%Oman 2 100%Ukraine 2 100%Trinidad & Tobago 2 75%Uruguay 2 75%Venezuela 2 67%Bulgaria 2 50%Romania 2 33%

Downloads of Full-Text Articles (FTA) from ScienceDirect

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Articles on line ~ 18 000 User Accounts ~ 8 000

Usage per country:

• China 18.5% • USA 15.4% • UK 8.6% • Germany 5.2% • Taiwan 4.2% • Turkey 4.0% • India 3.5% • Australia 3.2% • Brazil 3.2% • Netherlands 2.9% • Canada 2.1% • France 1.9%

Average publication speed

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Submission to 1st decision: 12.1 weeks Author’s revision time 15.6 weeks Revised submission to final disposition: 22.9 weeks

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60.4 w

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Author Feedback Program – benchmarking performance of EJOR

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Author Feedback Program – overall satisfaction

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Improvement in article due to reviewers suggestion.

(Author from India aged 36-45)

Editor handles the refereeing process fast and requests related experts to review the manuscript. (Author from United States aged Over 65)

Fast publication from the submission to the appearance in the journal. (Author from Hungary aged 36-45)

It is one of the top journal in ORMS area. (Author from United States aged 26-35)

Measurements per Sept. 2015

EJOR

AudioSlides

AudioSlides offers authors of an accepted article the opportunity to include a five-minute presentation (PPT or PDF) with their paper

This presentation consists of slides and audio and is shown next to the online (HTML) article on ScienceDirect - enabling the reader to get a personal, insightful overview of the material from the authors

In the past, Elsevier has already introduced Graphical Abstracts and Research Highlights as new ways to help authors in highlighting the salient points in their work

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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 will enter the editorial process on 18th July 2016

The move from selective „technical screening” to having the ME screen all papers will take place gradually

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How the editors are processing submitted manuscripts ?

Make editorial decision:

reject if there are strong arguments against publication or even major revision – error, incremental contribution, ill-founded motivations, no relevance to foreseen practice of decision making

reject and encourage resubmission if the paper has some potential and the work should be continued, but the paper needs to be re-written in line of rich and constructive reviews

major revision (great majority of papers sent to reviewers) if corrections/modifications and re-evaluation are necessary (at a later stage, reject decision is not excluded )

major revision in conflict – then an additional reviewer (EB) may be called in the next iteration

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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 as a new re-written paper

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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

How to write about Operational Research

A unified design for any OR publication:

What is the problem?

Why is this problem important?

How others approached this problem and what they missed?

What are you doing to solve this problem?

How will we know when you have succeeded?

If you do not address each of these elements in your outline, stop.

Identify the audience:

local or international?

mathematical or non-mathematical?

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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 (from proceedings, LNCS, LNAI, LNMES, IEEE, etc.) can be extended to journal publications if the added material brings at least 60% more new results (generalization of the approach, new special cases, new properties, new computational experiment, etc.)

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

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CrossCheck system


Choosing the right journal

Do your article fits with the Aims & Scope of the journal?

Is your work based on publications that appeared in that journal?

Check if the journal meets the article deposition requirement of your funding body or institution – open access (OA)

• full and free OA

• gold OA (1800$)

• green OA (embargo time – 36m)

Check the Guide for Authors for the type of article published and for the writing style (article length)

Ask for advice from your supervisor or colleagues

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check the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License


• Investigate all candidate journals, to find out • Aims and scope • Accepted types of articles • Readership and whether Open Access options are offered • Current hot topics

• You could use the Journal Finder Tool at www.elsevier.com/authors

• Make sure you read the journal’s Guide for Authors!

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Choose the Right Journal

How to write about Operational Research – your manuscript

Short but informative title, authors, abstract (150-200 words), keywords

Avoid technical jargon, embellishments and abbreviations

3 x C (complete, concise, clear)

Use illustrations to tell your story (use a legend and self-explanatory caption to each figure and table)

Start each paragraph with a topic sentence – no switching topics in the middle of the paragraph

Define your terms before you use them; avoid excessive symbolism

Do not use the footnotes; do not (nest (parenthetic phrases))

Use active voice, e.g., instead of „students were the listeners of the course”, write „students listened the course”

Use present tense for the facts and hypotheses; use the past tense when you refer to experiments you have conducted

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Do not use too many references

Always ensure you have fully absorbed material you are referencing

Avoid excessive self-citations

Avoid excessive citations of publications from the same region

Conform strictly to the style given in the guide for authors

References

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• Open Access: www.elsevier.com/openaccess

• Early Career Researcher Resources: www.elsevier.com/early-career-researchers/home

• Journal Finder Tool: www.elsevier.com/authors

• How to Get Published Guide

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