Frontiers in Operations is a new initiative that the M&SOM journal piloted for the first time in 2023 and will launch again this coming year 2025. This initiative has the following goals: (i) to pilot a different way of reviewing papers that is more "holistic", that is, (as described below) papers will be reviewed all together by a panel of senior scholars who will make an "up or down" recommendation (this goal is a key motivation for this initiative). As a side effect, this initiative will also allow us to (ii) promote faster publication for papers in the M&SOM journal ("conditional acceptance" in around a year) and (iii) finally, and very importantly, due to this more holistic approach, an outcome would also be that we will encourage and publish more innovative and risky research in the M&SOM journal.
The key premise of this initiative is that all papers submitted for consideration will be reviewed all together by a panel of senior people. This panel will include all the department editors (DEs), the EIC and additional senior scholars from the community who will serve as Associate Editors (AEs) for submissions received through this initiative. This panel may also include practitioners with close ties to academia.
Authors who want their paper to be considered for this initiative will need to submit it to the M&SOM journal through ScholarOne. Submissions should be received by January 15, 2025.
Authors will need to select "Frontiers in Operations" for the manuscript type. The attachment contains more details about the submission requirements and overall process we will follow for this initiative.
We look forward to your submissions
Georgia
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Georgia Perakis
William F. Pounds Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA
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