The evaluation of the scientific and technological (S&T) innovation efficiency of universities
is important for the 'double first-class' construction in China. However, related research often …

Food security is a global challenge. With rising world population and demand for food being
compounded by resource and arable land constraints, raising the efficiency of food …

In many real world applications, the efficiency of production systems should be determined
in multiple periods of time while inputs and outputs are imprecise and fuzzy. However, the …

Evaluating universities' R&D performance can serve as a tool for policymakers, enabling
them to identify the best R&D practitioners for benchmarking and develop strategies for …

How to evaluate and optimize the allocative efficiency of multiple research resources is of
great importance for decision-makers and has great practical application value. This is …

Academic research increasingly focuses on environmental sustainability as a specific
societal mission to be addressed. However, the effects of the increasing sustainability …

The importance of afforested area in environmental protection was emphasized in the 12th
Five Year Period. Therefore, we first synthetically assess the afforested efficiency by non …

We aim to study technical efficiency of undergraduate teaching activity in national (public)
universities in Argentina. We employ a stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) with a panel of 37 …

Using 57 universities directly under the Ministry of Education of China from 2009 to 2017 as
the research samples, the overall efficiency, technology research efficiency, result …

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the research efficiency of 40 departments in a
university from 2015 to 2017. In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used with a …