Management Science: impact and ranking
Management Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 7.55 in OpenAlex, which ranks #728 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 488. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 7.55 #728 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 488 #99 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.4M #231 of 18,122
- Works
- 14k 100.0 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Management Science?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Management Science: 7.55, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Management Science #728 of 18,122 journals, in the top 4%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Management Science?
OpenAlex gives Management Science an h-index of 488: 488 of its papers have each been cited at least 488 times. That ranks #99 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Management Science publish?
OpenAlex records 13,821 works in Management Science from 1954 to 2026, cited 1,381,460 times in all, 100.0 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #231 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Management Science
- Publisher
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0025-1909
- In OpenAlex
- 1954 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Management Science as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S33323087
Journals ranked near Management Science
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Management Science on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 680 | Polymers | 7.76 | 237 |
| 697 | Fuel | 7.70 | 312 |
| 704 | Journal of Hydrology | 7.63 | 360 |
| 730 | Journal of Medicinal Chemistry | 7.55 | 370 |
| 736 | IEEE Transactions on Power Systems | 7.52 | 372 |
| 739 | RSC Advances | 7.51 | 285 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.