 It is an official journal of The Operational Research Society.According to its homepage, it has also been accepted in Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index and its current impact factor is 1.013, according to 2016 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2017).The journal is currently abstracted and indexed in the Association of Business Schools' Academic Journal Quality Guide, Compendex, EMBASE, EMNursing, GEOBASE, International Abstracts in Operations Research, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Mosby Yearbooks, and Scopus.