Sustainable development and sustainability assessment have been of great interest to both
academe and practitioners in the past decades. In this study, we review the literature on data …

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 firstly reviews the cross efficiency evaluation method which is an extension tool of
data envelopment analysis (DEA), then we describe the main shortcomings when the …

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely used in energy efficiency and
environment efficiency analysis in recent years. Based on the existing environment DEA …

The assessment of transportation social sustainability appeals to many scholars as an
essential issue but imposes a risk of selecting inadequate factors and methods to measure …

Ever increasing customer choices, environmental concerns and competitiveness among
manufacturers across the globe has engaged the industry to embrace newer manufacturing …

The purpose of this study is to provide an efficient method for the selection of input–output
indicators in the data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach, in order to improve the …

In this paper, we propose a weighting scheme for constructing composite indicators based
on Shannon entropy. Its main advantages are that it delivers a set of common weights …

This paper reviews the application of phase change materials (PCMs) for improving the
performance of air conditioning systems. The different methods of integrating PCMs into air …