Title: International Journal of Operational Research: a retrospective overview between 2005 and 2020

Authors: Santosh Satyanarayan Baheti

Addresses: School of Business and Management, CHRIST University, Bengluru-560030, India

Abstract: The study presents a retrospective analysis of the International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR) across its 16 years of publication, 2005 to 2020. IJOR is a journal of international repute that publishes original and peer-reviewed research in the management sciences, decision sciences, and operation research domain. The journal reached its 17th year of publishing in 2021. This study provides a comprehensive overview of 1,023 publications using the bibliometric data analysis technique. The study focuses on the contribution of IJOR to the knowledge domain through publishing trends, authorship patterns, dominant authors, prominent articles, nature of studies, and thematic analysis. Co-occurrence analysis of all keywords, co-authorship, citation and co-citation analysis of authors, countries, and institutions is performed through VOSviewer software. The findings of the study emphasise the relationship of IJOR to different fields.

Keywords: bibliometrics; Scopus; operational research; VOSviewer.

DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2024.141331

International Journal of Operational Research, 2024 Vol.51 No.1, pp.1 - 37

Received: 10 Jun 2021
Accepted: 13 Nov 2021
Published online: 09 Sep 2024 *

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