Dear INFORMS Community,
I am grateful to John Birge for his excellent steering of the journal the past 6 years. His are large shoes to fill.
I invite you to read the updated editorial statements for the journal (mine and the Area Editor statements), and view each Area's Associate Editors. See https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/opre/editorial-statement.
The main change to the manuscript submissions is the double-blind submission procedure. Author names are not shared with reviewers. The style templates for the journal, updated to be double blind, can be found on the submissions guidelines page, https://pubsonline.informs.org/page/opre/submission-guidelines. On the same page, you will also notice that the journal is receptive to shorter submissions, and aims to have shorter review times for shorter submissions. Shorter submissions will be published in the same style as longer submissions (no "technical note" in the header). Intellectual coherence should dictate the submission length.
The manuscript submission process will ask you to suggest 3 Associate Editors from the relevant Area and 5 reviewers.
Thank you for your support of the Operations Research journal.
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Amy Ward, incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Operations Research journal
Rothman Family Professor of Operations Management
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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