A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA:1978–2016

Abstract

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and Rhodes (1978) introduced DEA as a tool for measuring efficiency and productivity of decision making units. DEA has immediately been recognized as a modern tool for performance measurement. Since then, a large and considerable amount of articles has been appeared, including significant breakthroughs in theory and a great portion of works on DEA applications, both public and private sectors, to assess the efficiency and productivity of their activities. Although there have been several bibliographic collections reported, a comprehensive analysis and listing of DEA-related articles covering its first four decades of history is still missing. This paper, thus, aims to report an extensive listing of DEA-related articles including theory and methodology developments and "real" applications in diversified scenarios from 1978 to end of 2016. Some summary statistics of the publications' growth, the most utilized academic journals, authorship analysis, as well as keywords analysis are also provided.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2017.01.008
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management
Additional Information: © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Uncontrolled Keywords: data envelopment analysis,efficiency and productivity,bibliography,survey,Geography, Planning and Development,Economics and Econometrics,Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty,Strategy and Management,Management Science and Operations Research
Publication ISSN: 1873-6041
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:20
Date Deposited: 30 Jan 2017 14:15
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-03
Published Online Date: 2017-01-26
Accepted Date: 2017-01-23
Submitted Date: 2017-01-22
Authors: Emrouznejad, Ali (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-8094-4244)
Yang, Guo-liang

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