Making Impossible Possible Together, Again!
Christopher Tang, Editor of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM)
While our lives have been upended in so many ways by the coronavirus Covid-19, there is something that our OM research community should be proud of.
- Impact Factor. The Impact Factor of M&SOM has increased from 2.667 to 4.281 (a new record). See chart below (data provided by Tinglong Dai of Johns Hopkins University).
- Preferred Choice. More OM researchers from top institutes (worldwide) are now submitting their papers to M&SOM as their first choice.
- Visibility. More M&SOM papers are now cited by researchers in other disciplines including economics, marketing, and healthcare. Also, more M&SOM papers received awards and media citations.
- Recognition. M&SOM is on the FT top 50 management journals list since 2017 and it is on the UT Dallas Journal list since inception.
- Input and Output. The submission rate of M&SOM continues to rise. To meet this increase, M&SOM is a bi-monthly journal. Our acceptance rate is around 14%, which is on-par with Marketing Science (our sister journal).
Together, we have made impossible possible together, again! Thank you for your continued support of M&SOM!
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Christopher Tang
Professor
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles CA
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