operations-research
Use when targeting Operations Research (OR) or deciding whether an optimization / stochastic-models / queueing / applied-mathematical-modeling manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill operations-research --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Operations Research (operations-research) ## Journal positioning Operations Research is the flagship methodological journal of INFORMS and one of the founding journals of the OR discipline. It publishes work that advances the methodology of operations research — optimization, stochastic processes, queueing, dynamic and Markov decision models, game theory, and applied mathematical modeling — where the contribution is a genuine theoretical or methodological advance, not merely an application. The readership is methodologically sophisticated; a paper is judged on the depth, correctness, and significance of its mathematical contribution and the importance of the problem it addresses. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the INFORMS / Operations Research site and the editorial submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names Operations Research / OR (or the INFORMS methodological flagships) as the target venue. - An optimization, stochastic-modeling, queueing, or decision-process paper has a real theoretical contribution
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the operations-research skill do?
Use when targeting Operations Research (OR) or deciding whether an optimization / stochastic-models / queueing / applied-mathematical-modeling manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill operations-research --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.