The application of DEA for the sake of assessing and evaluating the performance of researchers at research institutes: Case study of a research center

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1 Department of computer science, Qom university of technology, Qom. Iran

2 Industrial Engineering Department, Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Industrial Engineering , Qom university of technology, Qom. Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study is the presentation of a structured method for the assessment of the performance of researchers at research institutes through the use of DEA based on exact and objective indexes. After the preparation of a questionnaire through the study of literature and interviews with experts, the questionnaire was administered to the researchers at a research institute. The data collected was analyzed and the input index and output index were interpreted according to DEA. Based on our method, the output is conveyed to centers where the assessment is done so as to protect the research centers against the human errors which might affect the results of the assessment. The proposed method was applied to 56 researchers with four input indexes and 10 output indexes. The output index revealed that the score for the efficiency of 11 researchers was 1 and the rest of researchers’ score was less than 1 and their Performance was compared with the eleven researchers. Comparing our method which is extracted from the study of literature with other methods revealed that our method is both extensive and intensive and it has homogeneity to cover the performance of researchers.

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Soft Computing Journal

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Available Online from 23 July 2024

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  • Receive Date: 28 August 2023
  • Revise Date: 26 November 2023
  • Accept Date: 18 December 2023

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