Research Efficiency Assessment of Colombian Public Universities 2003-2012: Data Envelopment Analysis

Examination of research efficiency of research universities in Türkiye by data envelopment analysis

“…When the literature is examined, it is seen that different inputs are used in the measurement of research efficiency. The number of academicians is generally used as human resource input (Canal et al, 2015;Cherchye and Abeele, 2005;Jimenez-Saez et al, 2011;Li et al, 2023;Munoz, 2016;Shi et al, 2022;Su et al, 2020;Wang and Wang, 2021). However, it is also seen that the number of R&D personnel (Jiang et al, 2020) and doctoral students (Cherchye and Abeele, 2005) are also used.…”

“…One of the most frequently used inputs in measuring research efficiency is financial resources. Tuition fees (Munoz, 2016), research funds (Amara et al, 2020;Jimenez-Saez et al, 2011), science and technology funding expenditures (Wang and Wang, 2021), administrative expenses (Canal et al, 2015), investment costs (Jiang et al, 2020), scientific research funds (Liao et al, 2016), total research funding (Rhaiem and Amara, 2020) and annual budget (Li et al, 2023) were used as financial resource inputs. Although academic staff and financial resources are frequently used in the evaluation of research efficiency, various inputs other than these two inputs are also used.…”

“…Although academic staff and financial resources are frequently used in the evaluation of research efficiency, various inputs other than these two inputs are also used. Various input indicators such as the location of the discipline on campus (Su et al, 2020), time spent on research (Amara et al, 2020;Ma et al, 2021;Rhaiem and Amara, 2020), number of support staff (Su et al, 2020), number of students (Munoz, 2016) and square meters of building area (Canal et al, 2015) were also used. In general, it is seen that financial resources and human resources are used as inputs.…”

“…These differences in inputs also apply to outputs in research efficiency measurement: number of publications (Amara et al, 2020;Canal et al, 2015;Cherchye and Abeele, 2005;Jiang et al, 2020;Jimenez-Saez et al, 2011;Ma et al, 2021;Munoz, 2016;Su et al, 2020;Wang and Wang, 2021), research grants (Ma et al, 2021;Munoz, 2016), R&D contracts (Jimenez-Saez et al, 2011), technology transfer income (Wang and Wang, 2021), number of science awards (Jiang et al, 2020), number of research awards (Liao et al, 2016), number of citations (Amara et al, 2020;Rhaiem and Amara, 2020), number of citations per article (Li et al, 2023;Su et al, 2020), impact factor of articles (Liao et al, 2016) and number of highly cited papers (Li et al, 2023). As can be seen, there is no standard output criterion in the studies.…”

“…When the literature is examined, it is seen that research efficiency is measured for different units and with different methods. Research programs (Cherchye and Abeele, 2005), researchers (Amara et al, 2020), higher education institutions (Dimyati and Hermanu, 2022;Jiang et al, 2020;Munoz, 2016), universities (Canal et al, 2015;Li et al, 2023;Shi et al, 2022;Wang and Wang, 2021), R&D programs (Jimenez-Saez et al, 2011), academic disciplines (Su et al, 2020), a specific field (Zhang et al, 2022), institute (Amara et al, 2020;Liao et al, 2016) IJEM 37,6/7 1162…”