Letter from the Editors: Journal Status, 2008

摘要

We hope you had a productive summer, or winter, for those of you south of the equator. As we start the next academic year, we want provide you with the annual update on the status of the JOM as well as announcing this year's award winners. In general, the JOM continues to do very well as the leading journal in theory-driven, empirically based research of operations management. Recent citation impact factor scores place the JOM among the top OM research outlets. The most recent (2007) impact factor is 1.85, this means that the average article published in JOM is cited nearly two times in the 2 years following its publication. Fig. 1 shows the trends for four leading OM journals, indicating that JOM is consistently at or near the top of the list. The impact factor includes citations from over 30 different journals. The JOM scores include less than 20% self-citations (i.e. citations from JOM to other articles published in JOM), indicating that JOM is widely cited by journals both in OM and other fields.