This paper provides an extensive overview of the literature on efficiency in education. It
summarizes the earlier applied inputs, outputs and contextual variables, as well as the used …

What is academic research efficiency and what determines the differences between
scholars' academic research efficiency? The literature on this topic has evolved …

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 …

This paper analyses the impact of the Excellence Initiative (EI) in Germany, a policy
intervention aimed to promote and select outstanding active research universities by …

We test whether there is a link between the performance of universities, measured through a
concept of efficiency, and the economic development of the regions in which they operate …

An ongoing debate in the literature on the efficiency of higher education institutions
concerns the indicator for research output for use in empirical analysis. While several …

Universities play an active and important role in the development of a country. They are
centers for generating ideas and knowledge which relates to the development of a country's …

This study combines a data envelopment analysis (DEA) and fuzzy set qualitative
comparative analysis (fsQCA) to assess the research efficiency of Canadian scholars in the …

The measurement of efficiency in higher education has gained a growing interest in recent
years, especially due to the expansion of the university system. This paper provides a review …

In assessing the performance of universities, the most recent literature underlined that the
efficiency scores may suffer from the presence of incidental parameters or time-invariant …