Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications is a monthly research journal in applied mathematics and operations research that carries the theory of optimization, the computational methods of its algorithms and their applications in science, engineering and business on a single list.《优化理论与应用杂志》是应用数学与运筹学领域的月刊研究刊物，最优化理论，最优化算法的计算方法及其在科学，工程与商业中的应用三类内容同列一份书目。

Volume one appeared in 1967 from Plenum Publishing Corporation of New York, while current deposits name Springer-Verlag and the journal page prints Springer Science+Business Media as copyright holder within Springer Nature.第 1 卷于 1967 年由纽约的 Plenum Publishing Corporation 印行，今日存缴数据登记的出版者是 Springer-Verlag，期刊页面把版权人写作 Springer Nature 旗下的 Springer Science+Business Media。

The 2025 citation report gives a journal impact factor of 1.9, matched by the five-year figure, ranking the title 82nd of 345 in applied mathematics and 67th of 109 in operations research and management science.2025 年引文报告给出影响因子 1.9，5 年影响因子同为 1.9，应用数学类目 345 刊中列第 82 位，运筹学与管理科学类目 109 刊中列第 67 位。

Two editors-in-chief now share the desk above eight area editors and 140 associate editors, a roster running to some thirty countries or regions.现任主编两人共掌编务，其下有 8 位分区编辑与 140 位副编辑，名单跨约 30 个国家或地区。

Publication runs on a hybrid model, a little over a quarter of 2025 output reaching readers in gold open access while the body of the archive stays on subscription.刊物采混合出版体制，2025 年产出逾四分之一以金色开放获取面世，馆藏主体仍需订阅阅读。

Scope

• The masthead promise is a selection of meticulously chosen high-quality papers, and the aims text names four standing categories, research papers, invited papers, survey papers and technical notes.刊首承诺只刊出精挑细选的高质量论文，宗旨文字列出四类常设稿件，研究论文，约稿，综述论文与技术短文。
• Content revolves around mathematical optimization techniques and the computational methods of optimization algorithms, applications in science, engineering and business being named in the same paragraph.内容围绕数学最优化技术与最优化算法的计算方法展开，科学，工程与商业三类应用在同一段宗旨里被点出。
• Theoretical coverage stretches from linear, nonlinear, conic, stochastic, discrete and dynamic optimization across multiobjective optimization and optimal control to variational analysis and convex analysis.理论板块涵盖线性，非线性，锥式，随机，离散与动态最优化，并延伸到多目标最优化，最优控制，变分分析与凸分析。
• On the applied side the stated fields include mathematical economics, mathematical physics and biology, together with aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.应用一侧明列数学经济学，数学物理，生物学，以及航空航天，生物医学，化学，土木，电气与机械工程诸分支。
• Emerging territory is actively solicited, the aims text singling out machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, service systems optimization and quantum computing optimization as areas the editors encourage.新兴地带被主动招揽，宗旨文字把机器学习，深度学习，人工智能，服务系统最优化与量子计算最优化列为编辑部鼓励投稿的方向。
• Declared method is comprehensive, rigorous optimization technique being brought to bear on problems of high impact rather than on formal exercises of narrow scope.自陈取向求其全面，讲究把严格的最优化方法用在高影响问题上，不用于视野狭窄的形式演练。
• Book notices hold a permanent place, and forums are defined in the aims text as concise papers commenting on works already published, discussing open problems and exploring research perspectives.书评通告常设不废，论坛文字则在宗旨文中被界定为简短论文，评论已刊工作，讨论未决问题，试探研究方向。
• Advancing optimization science and its use across scientific and engineering domains is the purpose that binds those registers together into one list.推动最优化科学及其在科学与工程各领域的应用，是把上述多种文字联结为一份书目的宗旨。
• Variational analysis keeps a visibly heavy share, two of the three collections open for submission at the time of writing being given to deterministic and stochastic variational analysis and to its application in modelling energy exchange.变分分析所占比重明显，撰写时开放征稿的三个专辑中有两个以确定性与随机变分分析为题，其一落在能源交换建模的应用上。
• Special issues are assembled under guest editors with a named lead, announced panels drawing on Wayne State University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and MBZUAI Abu Dhabi.专辑由客座编辑组稿并明记召集人，已公布的班底来自 Wayne State University，Rochester Institute of Technology，Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona，Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg 与阿布扎比的 MBZUAI 等处。
• A recent run of accepted papers shows the blend, carrying generalized interval variational inequalities on Hadamard manifolds, time-optimal control onto a surface for arbitrary linear systems, convergence analysis of stochastic accelerated gradient methods and a revisit of the Shapley-solidarity value.近期刊出的稿件可见这种配比，有 Hadamard 流形上的广义区间变分不等式，有任意线性系统向曲面可达的时间最优控制，有随机加速梯度法的收敛性分析，也有对 Shapley 凝聚度值的重审。
• Authors classify each paper with the scheme of the American Mathematical Society beneath its key words, a house rule that places the list inside mathematics rather than inside engineering.作者须在关键词之下另列美国数学学会（American Mathematical Society）分类码，这一体例把刊物安放在数学一侧而非工程一侧。

History

• Volume one spans July to November 1967 in three issues, and the record of the National Library of Medicine gives the launch imprint as New York, Plenum Pub. Corp., a commercial house rather than a learned society, no society appearing in imprint, masthead or deposit metadata.第 1 卷跨 1967 年 7 月至 11 月，只 3 册，美国国家医学图书馆的记录把创刊出版项写作纽约的 Plenum Pub. Corp.，出版项，刊头与存缴元数据里都见不到学会名号，创刊依托的因此是商业出版机构。
• The publisher's board page keeps Angelo Miele under the heading of founding editor and dates his term 1967 to 2009, his affiliation there being the Aero-Astronautics Group of Rice University in Houston.出版方编委页把 Angelo Miele 留在创办编辑名目之下，任期记为 1967 至 2009 年，所记单位是休斯顿 Rice University 的航空航天研究组（Aero-Astronautics Group）。
• Six issues made a volume through the first fifteen, volumes two to fifteen running from January 1968 to June 1975 at roughly two volumes a year.前 15 卷每卷 6 册，第 2 卷至第 15 卷自 1968 年 1 月排到 1975 年 6 月，约以每年两卷推进。
• Volume sixteen fell to three parts in the autumn of 1975 and volume eighteen to four, the years from 1976 to 1985 running three volumes of four issues apiece from volume eighteen to volume forty-seven.第 16 卷在 1975 年秋缩为 3 册，第 18 卷定为 4 册，1976 至 1985 年皆每年 3 卷，第 18 至第 47 卷每卷 4 册。
• From volume forty-eight, dated January to March 1986, the pattern became three issues to a volume and four volumes to a year, so the twelve parts a year which the medical catalogue has recorded since January 1969 survived a redrawing of volume boundaries.自 1986 年 1 至 3 月的第 48 卷起改为每卷 3 册，每年 4 卷，美国国家医学图书馆自 1969 年 1 月起著录的年出 12 册因此在卷界重划之后依旧保持。
• Recent volumes keep that cadence, the publisher's own listing showing volumes 204 to 207 in 2025 and 208 to 211 in 2026, each volume made of three quarterly parts.近年仍照此节奏，出版方自列目录显示 2025 年为第 204 至 207 卷，2026 年为第 208 至 211 卷，每卷由 3 个季度册构成。
• Bound pagination gave way to article numbering, papers in the newest issues carrying identifiers such as 25 to 29 in place of page ranges.装订页码让位于连续稿号，最新各册论文以 25 至 29 一类编号标识，不再有页码区间。
• The imprint chain visible in citation and deposit data leads from Plenum Pub. Corp. to Springer-Verlag, Crossref registering the latter as publisher of current deposits and the journal page naming Springer Science+Business Media, LLC as copyright holder.引文与存缴数据所见的出版谱系由 Plenum Pub. Corp. 延续到 Springer-Verlag，Crossref 把后者登记为当期存缴的出版者，期刊页面则把版权人写作 Springer Science+Business Media 的这家有限公司。
• Clarivate still carries the compound imprint Springer/Plenum Publishers in its master list, a wording that keeps the founding house legible inside the citation record.Clarivate 主表里仍写作 Springer/Plenum Publishers 的复合名号，创刊社因此在引文记录中未曾隐去。
• The title has never been rechristened, print number 0022-3239 and electronic number 1573-2878 both standing under the same words, and no earlier name appears in the catalogue record.刊名从未改换，纸质号 0022-3239 与电子号 1573-2878 同挂一个题名，馆际记录里也不见旧题名。
• Editorial succession came in 2010, Franco Giannessi of the University of Pisa serving to 2020, David G. Hull of the University of Texas at Austin to 2018 and Bruce A. Conway of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2019, two editorships running concurrently for a decade.编辑交接在 2010 年发生，Pisa 大学的 Franco Giannessi 任至 2020 年，Texas at Austin 的 David G. Hull 任至 2018 年，Illinois Urbana-Champaign 的 Bruce A. Conway 自 2019 年接上，两席主编并行约十年。
• Citation measures fell from 2.189 in 2022 to 1.6 in 2023 and 1.5 in 2024 before recovering to 1.9 in 2025, that last figure resting on 8684 citations drawn from 318 citable items, a cited half life of 13.2 years, a journal indicator of 0.64 and an immediacy factor of 0.5.引文指标由 2022 年的 2.189 落到 2023 年的 1.6 与 2024 年的 1.5，2025 年回到 1.9，末一数值出自 318 篇可引条目换得的 8684 次被引，同年被引半衰期 13.2 年，期刊指标 0.64，即时指数 0.5。
• The title is absent from the Directory of Open Access Journals, yet 25.92 percent of 2025 output appeared gold, the publisher counting 434 open access articles in the archive and 496.9k downloads during 2025.刊物未收入开放获取期刊名录，2025 年产出仍有 25.92% 以金色形式出版，出版方统计馆藏开放获取论文 434 篇，2025 年下载 49.69 万次。
• Indexing reaches well past the science citation index, the publisher's own list naming Mathematical Reviews, zbMATH, Scopus, INSPEC, EI Compendex, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, ProQuest and the engineering, computing and technology edition of Current Contents, while the medical library marks PubMed coverage as selected citations only.收录范围远超科学引文索引，出版方自列名单含 Mathematical Reviews，zbMATH，Scopus，INSPEC，EI Compendex，ACM Digital Library，DBLP，ProQuest 与 Current Contents 的工程计算与技术版，美国国家医学图书馆则把 PubMed 一项标注为仅选录部分引用。

Editors

• Samir Adly holds one of the two editorships, the board page placing him at the Université de Limoges in France with an institutional mailbox as his published contact.Samir Adly 出任两席主编之一，编委页把他的单位写作法国的 Université de Limoges，公开的联系方式是机构邮箱。
• Tamás Terlaky takes the second seat, his affiliation there being the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem.Tamás Terlaky 掌第二席，所记单位是伯利恒 Lehigh University 的工业与系统工程系。
• Eight area editors sit beneath the two of them, each with a declared field, Mihai Anitescu answering for nonlinear, convex and nonsmooth optimization and Miguel Anjos of the University of Edinburgh for applications of optimization.二人之下设 8 位分区编辑并各标专攻，Mihai Anitescu 管非线性，凸与非光滑最优化，爱丁堡大学（University of Edinburgh）的 Miguel Anjos 管最优化应用。
• Gabriele Eichfelder of Technische Universität Ilmenau holds multi-objective and global optimization, Jason Hicken of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute holds aerodynamic shape, multidisciplinary design and PDE-constrained work, and Martine Labbé of the Université Libre de Bruxelles holds discrete and mixed-integer optimization.伊尔梅瑙工业大学的 Gabriele Eichfelder 掌多目标与全局最优化，Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 的 Jason Hicken 掌气动外形，多学科设计与偏微分方程约束问题，布鲁塞尔自由大学的 Martine Labbé 掌离散与混合整数最优化。
• Xiaojun Chen at Hong Kong Polytechnic University is entered for stochastic equilibrium problems and nonconvex optimization, Meisam Razaviyayn at the University of Southern California for optimization inside machine learning and artificial intelligence, and Boris Mordukhovich of Wayne State University sits among them.香港理工大学的 Xiaojun Chen 条下写作随机均衡问题与非凸最优化，南加州大学的 Meisam Razaviyayn 条下写作机器学习与人工智能中的最优化，Wayne State University 的 Boris Mordukhovich 亦列名其间。
• Some 140 associate editors carry the routine workload and 138 of them post a specialism line, the declared fields stretching from shape and topology optimization and homogenization through chance-constrained programming to timetabling, personnel rostering and vehicle routing.约 140 位副编辑承担日常审读，其中 138 人列出专攻方向，跨度从形状与拓扑最优化以及均匀化问题，机会约束规划到日程表编制，人员排班与车辆路径问题。
• By country the roster puts 37 seats in the United States, 19 in France, 14 in Germany, 8 in China, 7 each in Italy and Russia, 6 in Canada, 5 in Hong Kong and 4 in the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Chile, Switzerland, Australia and Japan sitting among the smaller groups.按国别计，美国占 37 席，法国 19 席，德国 14 席，中国 8 席，意大利与俄罗斯各 7 席，加拿大 6 席，香港 5 席，英国 4 席，西班牙，比利时，智利，瑞士，澳大利亚与日本等处人数较少。
• Manuscripts enter through the publisher's Editorial Manager service under the code （jota）, the guidelines crediting electronic submission with cutting editorial processing and reviewing time.稿件经出版方的 Editorial Manager 系统以代号（jota）递交，指南把线上递交算作缩短编辑处理与评审耗时的手段。
• An author may propose an associate editor while the editors keep the final assignment, several prospective referees being required with title, full affiliation and electronic mail address, and a request to exclude named individuals from the reviewing is entertained.作者可举荐一位分区编辑人选而最终指派权留在编辑手中，投稿时须另报多位候补评审人的职称，所属单位全称与电子邮箱，编辑部也受理排除特定评审人的请求。
• House style is exacting, titles capped at twelve words and barred from acronyms, abstracts set at 150 to 250 words, four or five key words required beneath them and at least three or four major sections in the body.体例要求严苛，题名以 12 词为限且禁用首字母缩略，摘要规定 150 至 250 词，其下列 4 至 5 个关键词，正文至少含 3 到 4 个主要部分。
• Length is reckoned in journal pages, 25 being the ceiling for ordinary papers and 8 to 10 for technical and forum pieces, survey and invited papers receiving more at the discretion of the editors, who may call for shortening before or after review.篇幅以期刊页数计，常规论文上限 25 页，技术短文与论坛文字 8 至 10 页，综述与约稿由编辑酌情放宽，编辑在评审前后皆可要求删削。
• Two gates stand ahead of review, papers disregarding the formatting rules and papers not written in correct English both being returned to their authors before referees are approached, English being the official language of the journal.送审之前有两道闸门，不合体例的来稿与英文不达标的来稿都在联系评审人之前退回作者，英文是该刊的官方语言。
• The journal belongs to the Committee on Publication Ethics and may screen submissions with plagiarism software, editors and board members being required to declare competing interests and to withdraw from manuscripts in which such an interest exists.刊物隶属出版伦理委员会（Committee on Publication Ethics），并可能以软件筛查投稿的重复内容，编辑与编委成员须申报利益冲突并在冲突存在时退出该稿的编审。
• The publisher reports nine days as the median interval between submission and first decision for 2025, that figure standing beside the impact measures on the same page of the journal site.出版方公布的 2025 年投稿至初次决定的中位时间为 9 天，该数字与影响因子各项同列在期刊页面的指标栏里。