期刊名称：M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Frequency: Quarterly│ISSN: 1523-4614 (Print), 1526-5498 (Online)
2012 Impact Factor: 1.712, 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.561
About Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) is the premier journal for the operations management research community. This quarterly journal publishes a wide range of research that focuses on the production and operations management of goods and services including technology management, productivity and quality management, product development, cross-functional coordination, and practice-based research.
M&SOM publishes high-impact manuscripts that report on relevant research that helps to solve operations management (OM) problems and delves into the control, planning, design, and improvement of these OM processes. This research can be prescriptive or descriptive, but in either case the intent of the research is to develop enduring knowledge that can lead to more efficient and effective processes for the creation and delivery of goods and services. M&SOM looks at a variety of methodological approaches to OM research and contributions spanning the full spectrum of decision making: strategic, tactical, and operational. Topics covered include:
- Control and Improvement
- Operational Decision Making
- Operations Management
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- Operations Strategy
- Process Design
- Supply Chain Coordination
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M&SOM is the INFORMS journal for operations management. The purpose of the journal is to publish high-impact manuscripts that report relevant research on important problems in operations management (OM). The field of OM is the study of the processes for the design, procurement, production, delivery, and recovery of goods and services. OM research entails the control, planning, design, and improvement of these processes. This research can be prescriptive or descriptive; but in either case, the intent of the research is ultimately to develop some form of enduring knowledge that can lead to more efficient or effective processes for the creation and delivery of goods and services.
M&SOM encourages a variety of methodological approaches to OM research; papers may be theoretical or empirical, analytical or computational, and may be based on a range of established research disciplines. M&SOM encourages contributions in OM across the full spectrum of decision making: strategic, tactical, and operational. Furthermore, the journal supports research that examines pertinent issues at the interfaces between OM and other functional areas.
The criteria for publication are:
Importance of the problem or issue: What is the focal problem, issue, or phenomenon for the research? Is this focal point of sufficient importance to OM to warrant consideration by the journal? Why? What evidence is provided that the paper addresses a significant issue for operations managers in some context? What is the potential impact from addressing the problem or issue?
Relevance of the research: Is the research relevant to the problem or issue? Do the research results provide an applicable solution to the problem, or a potential pathway to solve the problem? Does the research provide meaningful, actionable insights into an issue or phenomenon? Are there lessons from the research that can be applied to practice or taught to operations managers? What evidence is provided for the relevance of the research?
Rigor of the research: Are the research approach, methods, and execution sound, as judged by the scholars from the relevant research community? Are the results correct? Are the results convincing? Does the paper position its contribution relative to the relevant literature?
Innovation: What is innovative or original about this research? Is there novelty in the framing of the research question, or the research methodology and analysis? Is this a creative use of existing methods or models? What are the implications from these innovations for subsequent research?
Clarity: Is the paper clearly written? Is it reasonably concise? Is its length consistent with its contribution? Would the typical reader of the journal be able to understand and appreciate the contributions from the paper?
Authors with questions about the appropriateness of their work are welcome to contact the Editor regarding the suitability of sending a paper to the journal.
Special-Category Papers
In addition to regular research papers, the journal considers selected submissions in three special categories to augment its core editorial mission. To differentiate from regular research papers, a special-category paper is published with a banner that identifies its category.
OM Forum
An OM Forum manuscript offers responsible views on the history, status and future prospects of OM research and managerial practice. Contributions may be short or long, and may comment on earlier material appearing in the journal. In contrast to survey papers, OM Forum offers general opinions and perspectives on the field, rather than detailed coverage of specific research results. The goal of the OM Forum category - in short - is to provide an outlet for thought leadership and critical discourse within the OM research community.
OM Forum contributions are by invitation of the Editor. However, proposals for topics or nominations of potential authors may be submitted directly to the Editor. Papers are selected based on the interest and importance of the topic to the OM research community, the authoritativeness of the author(s), and the quality of exposition. Submissions are reviewed as appropriate to provide constructive feedback to authors.
Data Set
To facilitate data-driven research, the journal publishes short papers (1-4 pages) that merely describe a potentially useful data set. A Data Set paper describes how a data set was collected, provides a description of the variables in the data set, explains the construction of the data set, and offers potential uses for the data. These papers do not provide analysis of the data. Data Set papers are critically reviewed by an Associate Editor and at least two reviewers to ensure that the data set could be of potential use to OM research. A data set could provide a standard set of problems for algorithmic testing and comparison, or a data set could provide use in an econometric analysis, among other potential uses. The actual data are stored on the M&SOM website. Research papers that utilize data are also strongly encouraged to post their data on the M&SOM website. However, because the data set in such a paper should be described in the regular research paper, there is no need for the authors to create an additional Data Set paper. In other words, this category provides researchers with an opportunity to share their data with the community even if they do not provide research results.
Survey
The journal publishes authoritative research surveys of interest to its readership. Such surveys must meet the criteria of relevance and importance of regular research submissions.
Authors interested in submitting a survey paper must first contact the Editor with a short proposal. The Editor will then consult with an Associate Editor on the proposal. If the survey topic is deemed of sufficient potential interest to the OM community, a submission is encouraged and the paper undergoes the same peer review process as a regular research paper.
The journal remains very interested in "OM Practice" papers, namely, papers that report on innovative implementations of OM research to real problems or that rigorously document existing practice and demonstrate how current modeling approaches succeed or fail in practice. The expectation is that for publication these papers should make contributions of archival quality. As a consequence, the review process for such papers is the same as for a regular manuscript. The criteria for publication are: importance of the problem, issue or phenomenon to the OM research community; relevance of the research to addressing the problem or understanding the phenomenon; rigor and novelty of the work; and quality of exposition. Hence, there is no need to designate such submissions as a "Special Category" paper.
Instructions to Authors
This document provides the instructions to follow to submit a paper to M&SOM. Your submission is considered active (for cycle time tracking purposes) only when you have completed all of the requirements in this document. The information requested is used to ensure you receive a high quality and unbiased review in a timely manner.
The first part of this document discusses the length and formatting requirements of all manuscripts. The second part provides two sets of directions, one to submit a new manuscript and one to submit a revision. (A revision of a manuscript that was previously rejected is considered a new submission and must follow the new submission process.) The third part of the document states the journal’s copyright policy and guidelines on academic integrity.
Length and Formatting Requirements
Papers cannot exceed 32 pages, including all references, tables, graphs, and appendices, when typeset using either the Latex or Word style files for M&SOM. In addition to the regular manuscript, authors may submit as a separate file a supporting document intended for publication as an online supplement to the paper; the online supplement is restricted to be at most 8 manuscript pages.
Double-spacing should be used throughout the regular manuscript, including abstract, references, and footnotes.
Papers should have one inch margins on all sides and use at least 11-point font.
Manuscripts should include a nonmathematical abstract of not more than 200 words that communicates the contribution of the paper to general readers as clearly as possible. It is important that your abstract not contain mathematical notation that may be difficult to properly present in Web browsers. The abstract is not only part of the full article (print and online) but, more importantly, serves as the only free-for-all record of your paper. It is reused and remapped by a variety of online portals and metadata databases, some of which are text only. Please provide a text-only abstract, or, if that is absolutely impossible, try to minimize the use of math symbols and please completely avoid accented variables.
References should be listed alphabetically by author at the end of the paper in conformance with journal style. In-text citations should be indicated by the author’s last name and year of publication, e.g., (Norman 1977) or Norman (1977).
Figures should be in black and white.
Templates
Word: If you use Word to prepare your manuscript, you can use the format given in the following files, which contain proper font, margin spacing, and other settings, as well as information on citation rules and formats:
- MSOMWordtemplate.doc
Latex: To prepare a manuscript using Latex, you can download the style files for M&SOM. The readme file explains the templates and how to use them.
- Download the M&SOM Latex files
To Submit a New Manuscript
To submit a new manuscript to M&SOM, you must complete the submission process on the ScholarOne Manuscripts website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/msom
In ScholarOne Manuscripts, there are seven steps in the submission process. Much of the submission process is self-explanatory (e.g., the field to enter the title of the paper). The following lists the steps in the process and provides instructions to complete each step that are not obvious.
- Step 1: Type, title, abstract - It is important that your abstract not contain mathematical notation that may be difficult to properly present in Web browsers. The abstract is not only a part of the full article (print and online) but, more importantly, serves as the only free-for-all record of your paper. It is reused and remapped by a variety of online portals and metadata databases, some of which are text only. Please provide a text-only abstract, or, if that is absolutely impossible, try to minimize the use of math symbols and please completely avoid accented variables.
- Step 2: Attributes - Please enter up to five key words to describe your paper from the dropdown list. You may mention additional key words in the Cover Letter to the Editor if applicable.
- Step 3: Authors and Instructions - Self-explanatory.
- Step 4: Reviewers and Editors - You must enter 6 preferred reviewers and 3 Associate Editors. Regular Associate Editors
(list of regular AEs) are preferred but you may also include Guest Associate Editors if you feel their expertise is particularly appropriate for the manuscript. These persons should have no conflict of interest with any of the authors of the paper. A conflict of interest exists if the person is a major thesis advisor of the author(s) or a former student whose thesis the author(s) have supervised or employees of the same company or institution as the author(s) or a co-author of recently completed work or work in progress with the author(s).
- Step 5: Details and Comments - This is where you can provide additional information either in the text box or by uploading a cover letter. This information will be viewed by the Editor and the Associate Editor but will not be viewed by the reviewers. You might provide any additional comments for the Editor or Associate Editor that will assist us in the evaluation of your paper. For example, you might offer a brief explanation for your choice of six reviewers and three Associate Editors. Nevertheless, nothing is required here.
- Step 6: File Upload - This is where you upload your manuscript and any supplemental materials. A technical appendix is considered a "supplemental material." Supplemental materials are viewed by the Editor, Associate Editor, and reviewers. See below for information on what these files should contain.
- Step 7: Review and Submit - Self-explanatory.
Manuscript File
The file is a PDF of your paper. This file should contain the paper's title, abstract, main body, references, figures, tables, and appendices. The authors’ names, addresses, and affiliations should be completely removed from this file because M&SOM uses a double-blind review process. Be sure that there is no personal information in the "DocumentProperties" field.
Supplemental material file
This is not required, but authors may submit additional materials that are not part of the main manuscript file. As with the manuscript file, this must be a PDF and not contain any direct information to identify the authors.
To Submit a Revision of a Manuscript
To submit a revision of a manuscript to M&SOM, you must complete the revision submission process on the ScholarOne Manuscripts website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/msom
This process is mostly self-explanatory. As with a new submission. you must submit PDF files. The main manuscript file should contain the paper's title, abstract, main body, references, figures, tables, and appendices. This file should provide no indication of the authors' identities (i.e., names, addresses, or affiliations). Be sure that there is no personal information in the "Document Properties" field.
Upload a single PDF file that contains the response to the previous reports as a supplemental file (Step 6 of the process). The response to the reviewers should begin with a general description of all major changes made in the paper. Please indicate if a change is in response to a particular reader (reviewers, AE and/or Editor). This general description should be targeted to all of the reviewers. The authors may choose to have subsequent sections that target specific reviewers, but those sections should not repeat portions of the first section, i.e., it should be assumed that all reviewers will read the initial section describing the changes in the paper. A cover letter can be uploaded but is not necessary.
Guidelines on Academic Integrity and Copyright Policy
Submission of a paper to M&SOM for review means that the author certifies that (the following is an adaptation of the Management Science Ethical Guidelines, prepared by Wallace Hopp; I thank Wally for his permission to use this):
1. The manuscript is not copyrighted and is not under review, has not been accepted for publication, and has not been published by any refereed journal.
2. If the manuscript, or any similar version if it, has appeared or will appear in a nonrefereed publication, the details of such publication must be made known to the Editor at the time of submission.
3. The results reported in the submitted manuscript are substantially new and do not include significant repetition of results reported in other submitted or published papers by the authors or other scholars (to the authors' best knowledge).
4. Any previous work by the author(s) that is relevant to the results of the submitted paper is properly cited.
5. If this manuscript, or an earlier version of it, was previously rejected by M&SOM, this fact and the justification for resubmission has been clearly communicated to the Editor.
Violation of these principles of ethical publishing is a serious matter and will result in rejection of the manuscript, and may result in more serious sanctions, including forfeiture of the right to publish in INFORMS journals.
As a condition of final acceptance of a paper for publication in an INFORMS journal, the author must indicate if the paper is posted on a website other than the author's personal website. The author is responsible for ensuring that, if any part of the paper has been copyrighted for prepublication, for example, as a working paper, the copyright can and will be transferred to INFORMS when the paper has been accepted. This includes both print and electronic forms of the paper. Authors may post their papers on websites after acceptance and prior to publication, as long as the sites are not copyrighted or do not serve as formal repositories. Authors may not post their page proofs on websites prior to publication. Contact permissions@informs.org for further information.
Open Access
The INFORMS Open Option (IOO) provides an open access alternative for articles accepted in any INFORMS journals that would have otherwise been available only through subscriptions or pay per view. Click here for details.
NIH Public Access Policy
The author is responsible for complying with the NIH Public Access Policy. INFORMS follows Method C of NIH's submission methods guidelines and has no obligation to notify an NIH-funded author about the requirement (http://publicaccess.nih.gov/submit_process.htm).
More tips can be found at the INFORMS Author Portal: http://authors.pubs.informs.org.
Review Process
This page summarizes the review process and details the expected cycle times. The review process for revisions is nearly identical to the review process for new submissions: the only difference between the processes is in the supplemental materials the authors provide: with a revision, the authors write a response to the reviewers, which they clearly do not with a new submission. In particular, the target cycle times are the same for new submissions and revisions.
Summary of the Review Process
- The manuscript is checked to ensure that it conforms with the formatting requirements and all supporting documents have been included.
- The Editor quickly reviews the manuscript for overall fit with the editorial policy of the journal. If the Editor feels the paper fits the journal's editorial mission, the Editor assigns the paper to an Associate Editor (AE). Otherwise, the Editor returns the manuscript to the authors with a short report explaining this decision.
- The AE reviews the manuscript for fit and quality. The AE has three options: (i) The AE can reject the paper if the AE feels the contribution of the paper is insufficient even if all of the results are correct and even if the authors would be given the opportunity to provide a revision. (ii) The AE can reject the paper if the AE feels that the paper has the potential to make a contribution but there are obvious omissions or corrections needed in the analysis. If either option (i) or (ii) are taken, the AE writes a report for the authors detailing the reasoning behind the decision. (iii) The AE can choose to recruit two to three reviewers.
- Assuming the paper is sent to reviewers, the AE waits to receive at least two reports. The AE summarizes the reports and recommends one of the following actions:
- Reject: The paper is not publishable as is and not likely to be publishable even with a revision.
- Major revision required: The paper may or may not be publishable; a major revision is needed before a final decision can be made.
- Minor revision required: The paper is probably publishable, but needs some minor revisions before a final decision can be made.
- Conditionally accept: The paper is publishable but requires some very minor changes; the revised manuscript will not be sent back to the AE, but will be checked by the Editor.
- Accept: The paper is publishable as is.
The AE’s report provides a synthesis of the referees’ evaluations, the AE’s own assessment of the paper, and the AE’s recommendation. When the recommendation is reject, then the report should provide an explanation and justification for this decision; to the extent it is possible, the report should also provide constructive feedback on what might make this into a publishable paper. When the recommendation is for a revision, the report should attempt to provide for the authors a clear set of actions to guide the revision, as well as some explanation as to why these actions will result in a better paper; this is particularly important when the reviewers make contradictory recommendations.
The Editor reviews the reports (AE's and reviewers) and makes a final decision from the same choices for the AE. In most cases, the Editor follows the recommendation of the AE. If the Editor's recommendation differs from the AE's, then the Editor writes a detailed report explaining the decision. If the Editor's recommendation is to resubmit, the Editor provides guidance to the authors on how to proceed.
Expected Processing Times
It is the objective of the M&SOM editorial board to provide fair, critical, and constructive reviews in a timely manner. The following are the target deadllines:
- The Editor is given 4 days to do the initial read of the manuscript and either return the paper to the author(s) or assign an AE.
- The AE is given 9 days to do an initial read and either return the paper to the author(s) or assign reviewers.
- Each reviewer is given 35 days (5 weeks) to complete his/her report.
- The AE is given 10 days to summarize the reviewers' reports and to synthesize his/her recommendation.
- The Editor is given 5 days to make a final decision after the AE report is received.
Therefore, assuming a manuscript is sent into each stage of the review process, authors should expect to receive a decision within 63 days (9 weeks) of submitting a manuscript. This time period begins when the authors successfully complete the submission process, i.e., only after they have submitted a manuscript that conforms to all formatting requirements and all necessary supporting documents have been uploaded to the Manuscript Central system.
Instructions to Authors
MSOMWordtemplate.doc
Editorial Board
Editor
Stephen C. Graves
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
msomeditor@mit.edu
Associate Editors
Adelman, Daniel: University of Chicago
Agrawal, Naren: Santa Clara University
Allon, Gad: Northwestern University
Anupindi, Ravi: University of Michigan
Ata, Baris: University of Chicago
Aviv, Yossi: Washington University in St. Louis
Babich, Volodymyr; Georgetown University
Balakrishnan, Anant: University of Texas at Austin
Baron, Opher: University of Toronto
Benjaafar, Saif: University of Minnesota
Bernstein, Fernando: Duke University
Birge, John: University of Chicago
Bradley, James: College of William and Mary
Cakanyildirim, Metin: University of Texas at Dallas
Caldentey, Rene: New York University
Chod, Jiri: Boston College
Corbett, Charles; University of California, Los Angeles
Dada, Maqbool: Johns Hopkins University
Dawande, Milind: University of Texas at Dallas
DeCroix, Gregory: University of Wisconsin
DeHoratius, Nicole: University of Chicago
Denton, Brian: University of Michigan
Deshpande, Vinayak; University of North Carolina
de Vericourt, Francis; INSEAD
Elmaghraby, Wedad: University of Maryland
Ferguson, Mark; University of South Carolina
Frei, Frances: Harvard University
Gallien, Jeremie: London Business School
Gaur, Vishal: Cornell University
Gavirneni, Srinagesh: Cornell University
Gilbert, Stephen: University of Texas at Austin
Ha, Albert: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Iyer, Ananth: Purdue University
Kapuscinski, Roman: University of Michigan
Karaesmen, Fikri: Koc University
Karaesman, Itir; American University
Keskinocak, Pinar: Georgia Institute of Technology
Kok, Gurhan: Duke University
Kouvelis, Panos: Washington University
Mendelson, Haim: Stanford University
Milner, Joseph; University of Toronto
Netessine, Serguei: INSEAD
Olsen, Tava: University of Auckland
Ozer, Ozalp: University of Texas at Dallas
Petruzzi, Nicholas: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pinedo, Michael: New York University
Pinker, Edieal: Yale University
Plambeck, Erica; Stanford University
Ray, Saibal: McGill University
Savin, Sergei: University of Pennsylvania
Scheller-Wolf, Alan: Carnegie Mellon University
Secomandi, Nicola: Carnegie Mellon University
Shang, Kevin: Duke University
Shumsky, Robert: Dartmouth College
Singhal, Vinod: Georgia Institute of Technology
Sosic, Greys: University of Southern California
Sriskandarajah, Chelliah; Texas A&M University
Steinberg, Richard: London School of Economics
Su, Xuanming: University of Pennsylvania
Swann, Julie: Georgia Institute of Technology
Talluri, Kalyan: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Taylor, Terry: University of California, Berkeley
Toktay, Beril: Georgia Institute of Technology
Tomlin, Brian: Dartmouth College
Tunca, Tunay; University of Maryland
van Houtum, Geert-Jan; Eindhoven University of Technology
Van Mieghem, Jan: Northwestern University
Ward, Amy: University of Southern California
Willems, Sean: Boston University
Wu, D. J.: Georgia Institute of Technology
Zhang, Fuqiang: Washington University in St. Louis
Zhao, Yao: Rutgers University
Zhou, Yong-Pin: University of Washington
Last updated March 6, 2014
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History
Editors-in-Chief
2014 - 2009: Stephen C. Graves
2008 - 2006: Gerard Cachon
2005 - 2003: Garrett J. van Ryzin
2002 - 1999: Leroy B. Schwarz
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