Industrial Management & Data Systems

2016 Impact Factor: 2.205*
5-year Impact Factor (2016): 2.343*

CiteScore 2016: 2.59
CiteScoreTracker 2017: 1.65 (Updated Monthly)

Journal history

Previously published as Industrial Management
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Industrial Management & Data Systems (IMDS) focuses on topics treating the interface between operations management and information systems. IMDS is interdisciplinary in nature and serves researchers and practitioners the necessary information to enable them to explore and apply the potential of new technologies to all aspects of management activities such as marketing, management information systems, operations management, business strategy, innovation, organization behaviour, business process management and supply chain management.

The major aims of IMDS are:

To provide cross-disciplinary research in the areas of operations management and information systems.
To study different range of information systems development and usage in businesses.
Promotes awareness of new technology and related concepts and their implications in business.
Disseminate knowledge for improving operations management practice and to improve the theoretical base necessary for supporting sound management decisions.

The scope of IMDS cover all aspects of areas that integrates both operations management and information systems research, and topics include but not limited to, are listed below:

Big Data research
Data analytics
E-business
Production planning and scheduling
Logistics and supply chain management
New technology acceptance and diffusion
Marketing of new industrial products and processes
Sustainable supply chain management
Green information systems
IS strategies
Knowledge management
Innovation management
Performance measurement
Social media in businesses

Industrial Management & Data Systems is indexed and abstracted in:

ABI/INFORM Complete, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Research, Academic Research Library, Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering, Business Source: Alumni Edition / Complete / Corporate / Elite & Premier, Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management & Marketing, Computer Literature Index, Computers and Applied Science Complete, Corporate Resource Net, Current Abstracts, Educational Technology Abstracts, EI Compendex, Ergonomics Abstracts, INSPEC Database, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Professional ABI/INFORM Complete, Professional ProQuest Central, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Law, ProQuest Pharma Collection, ReadCube Discover, Research Alert, Research Library,

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This journal is ranked in:

The Association of Business Schools' (ABS) Academic Journal Guide 2015 (the Guide), BFI (Denmark), CNRS (France), HCERES (France), The Publication Forum (Finland), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus

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