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Use when shaping or screening a research question for the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) — testing whether operations is genuinely at the heart of the question, whether the work can be empirical, and which of JOM's 12 Departments should route it (vs. analytical OM venues like M&SOM / Management Science / Operations Research).

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# Topic Selection & JOM Fit (jom-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have an OM or supply-chain idea but are unsure it fits JOM rather than an analytical OM journal
- Operations appears only as the *setting* of the study, not the phenomenon under investigation
- You cannot yet name an empirical observation that would anchor the study
- You do not know which JOM Department your paper belongs to

## The JOM fit test

JOM publishes **original, empirical operations management research with academic and practical relevance**, where **operations are at the heart of the research question, not just in the context**. Apply four screens before investing:

1. **Operations-as-heart.** The dependent or focal phenomenon must be an operations or supply-chain phenomenon — production, service delivery, inventory, quality, projects, sourcing, logistics, sustainability/social operations, healthcare delivery. If you could swap operations for any other setting and the question survives, it is context, not heart — fix this first.
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