About the Journal

Aims and Scope of the Journal

Croatian Operational Research Review (CRORR) is the journal which publishes original scientific papers from the area of operational research. The purpose is to publish papers from various aspects of operational research (OR) with the aim of presenting scientific ideas that will contribute both to theoretical development and practical application of OR. The scope of the journal covers the following subject areas: linear and non-linear programming, integer programing, combinatorial and discrete optimization, multi-objective programming, stohastic models and optimization, scheduling, macroeconomics, economic theory, game theory, statistics and econometrics, marketing and data analysis, information and decision support systems, banking, finance, insurance, environment, energy, health, neural networks and fuzzy systems, control theory, simulation, practical OR and applications.
The audience includes both researchers and practitioners from the area of operations research, applied mathematics, statistics, econometrics, intelligent methods, simulation, and other areas included in the above list of topics.
The journal has an international board of editors, consisting of more than 30 editors – university professors from Croatia, Slovenia, USA, Italy, Germany, Austria and other coutries.

Peer Review Process

Every manuscript is peer reviewed, according to the following procedures.

1. Initial manuscript evaluation
The Editors-in-Chief will promptly evaluate blinded manuscripts. Manuscripts not aligning with the journal’s aims, scope, or quality standards will be returned to authors. Submissions meeting the minimum criteria proceed to the Section (Associate) Editors, covering manuscript subject of interest, who are required to find two appropriate experts for review, external to the editorial board.

2. Type and duration of peer review
The Croatian Operational Research Review employs double-blind reviewing, in which the reviewer is unknown to the author, and the identity of the author is unknown to the reviewer.

3. Reviewers’ report
Referees advise the Editors. The Editors’ decision to accept or to reject a manuscript will be sent promptly to the author, with suitably detailed explanations. The paper could be accepted as is, accepted with minor revisions, revised and resubmitted or declined. In most cases revisions are required to improve the manuscripts and therefore it is requested from authors to submit response to reviewers point by point along with revised manuscript.

4. The Editors’ decision
The Editors are responsible for the final decision to accept or to reject a given manuscript. If decisions of two reviewers mismatch substantially, the second round of review is initiated.

 

Publication Frequency

The first issue of the journal (Volume 1, Issue 1) was published in December 2010. In the period from 2010 to 2013 the journal was published once a year. From 2014 to today, the journal has been regularly published twice a year:

  • a spring issue and
  • an autumn issue.

Journal papers with be published collectively, as part of an issue with its own Table of Contents.

Open Access Policy

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.The journal has an open access to full text of all papers through our Open Journal System and the Hrcak database.

There is no subscription fee or pay per view or the reprint fee for the articles of this journal.

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

CRORR journal is committed to ensuring ethics in publication and quality of articles. Conformance to standards of ethical behavior is therefore expected of all parties involved: Authors, Editors, Reviewers, and the Publisher. Before submitting or reviewing a paper read our Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement.

Sources of Support

The journal is financially supported by its publisher (Croatian Operational Research Society) and co-publishers (academic institutions from Croatia: Faculty of Economics – University of Osijek, School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics – University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism – University of Split, Faculty of Economics and Business – University of Zagreb, and Faculty of Organization and Informatics – University of Zagreb).

Advertising Policy

The journal is not involved in any advertising of the third parties in the form of publishing third parties’ adds. Only the names and logos of supporting institutions are published on the cover of the journal.

Journal History

The first issue of the CRORR journal was published in 2010 by the Croatian Operational Research Society. The journal evolved from the Proceedings of the International Conference on Operational Research which published selected papers from the KOI conference since 1992.

From 2008 to 2013 one volume per year of the journal was published containing selected papers form the KOI 2010 and KOI 2012 conferences. Starting from Volume 5, Number 1 (2014), the journal is being published twice a year, containing regular issues out of KOI conference. Also starting from 2014, the co-publishers of the journal are: University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics; University of Osijek, School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics; University of Split, Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism and University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business. From 2021 Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb is a new co-publisher of Croatian Operational Research Review.