On behalf of the Editorial Board of Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization (JIMO), I am most pleased to share with you that the impact factor of JIMO is 1.181 according to the Journal Citation Report 2008 recently released by ISI. JIMO is now ranked the top 20th out of 64 in the category of  Management Science and Operations Research.

Kok Lay Teo
Shuping Chen

Editors-in-Chief
Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization