I hope you all had a good INFORMS conference and are having a great fall semester.I am writing to remind you all about the new initiative the M&SOM journal is piloting that we call "Frontiers in Operations".You can find more details in https://lnkd.in/eEgr4xAJSubmissions for this initiative open November 1, 2022 and will close January 15, 2023.As a reminder 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.
I am sure as we pilot this initiative we will learn a lot and improve it but it is time to launch it. We look forward to receiving your submissions (as mentioned above you can submit a paper through the M&SOM journal submission system between November 1, 2022 and January 15, 2023).
Above all, I want to take this chance to sincerely thank the committee who worked with me to think through this initiative (Anita Carson, Jeremie Gallien, Marcelo Olivares, Kamalini Ramdas (chair)). I also want to thank many of you who gave us feedback in the process.
Goodluck with the remainder of the semester!
Georgia
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Georgia Perakis
William F. Pounds Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA
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