Research in Operations Management.

It is important that the first issue of a new journal devoted to research in a given subject area examine the general nature of research in the field, at present, and indicate what type of research might be beneficially undertaken in the field in the future. It is also desirable for a new journal to consider the ways in which it will judge the general quality of its articles in the aggregate, relative to established journals in similar disciplines. That is, what criteria can and should be used. say five years hence to determine if the journal is a strong one? It is the purpose of this paper to consider these distinct, but interrelated questions. This will be done by classifying some recent OM research, commenting on what appear to be broad areas where more work might be done, and then suggesting some measures we might want lo think about for evaluating papers published by the JOM in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]