Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

1967 - 2026

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Volume 104, issue C, 2026

Best-worst multi-criteria decision-making method: A review of the literature

Pejman Peykani, Ali Emrouznejad and Mojtaba Nouri

Research on the efficiency of technology transfer in Chinese universities from the perspective of supply and demand

Shiqing Liu, Minyi He, Qian Zhou, Jun Ma and Zhen Zhao

Firms’ disclosure of university ties on their website: An explorative analysis of its role for innovation performance

Bastian Krieger, Stefania Scrofani and Linus Strecke

On education as a risky asset: Should the government help the working students?

Corrado Andini and Pedro Telhado Pereira

Mapping research achievements on urban air mobility: A systematic literature review

Margarida R. Santos, Sofia Kalakou and Fernando A.F. Ferreira

Evaluating sustainable last-mile delivery modes using IF-MAIRCA: The perspective of local authorities

Fulya Zaralı, Şaban Fatih Yılmaz, Neslihan Demirel, Akram Elomiya and Stefan Jovčić

Resilient emergency facilities location–allocation under cascading uncertainty: A two-stage robust optimization model

Hongyan Li, Dongmei Yu and Mengyuan Zhang

Special issue on analytical models and AI for sustainable development – Enhancing decision-making

Ali Emrouznejad, Dima Rachid Jamali and Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos

Nudging households' sustainable investments: results from a pilot lab-in-the-field experiment in two Italian cities

Beatrice Bertelli, Marianna Brunetti, Costanza Torricelli and Mariangela Zoli

Context-rich data sets for school operations models and methods

Aysu Ozel and Karen Smilowitz

Perceptions and beliefs of local Iranian communities towards forest protection

Moslem Savari and Bagher Khaleghi

Measuring national sustainability: ESG scores from corporate data

Sergio Hoffmann and D’Ecclesia, Rita Laura

Capturing and representing the multidimensionality of welfare through structural equation modeling and a goal-based composite indicator with multiple constraints

Matheus Pereira Libório, Helena Teixeira Magalhães Soares, Caio Cesar Soares Gonçalves, Marcos Flávio Silveira Vasconcelos D'Angelo and Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel

Optimal resource allocation estimation of agricultural sustainable systems based on inverse network DEA

Jiqiang Zhao, Lijun Cheng and Xianhua Wu

Dynamic evaluation of operational, environmental, and unified efficiencies: A DEA application in agriculture

Zahra Abbasi, Mohammad Afzalinejad and Ali Asghar Foroughi

Labor endowment, productive services and farmers' adoption of ecological agriculture: Taking rice-crayfish co-culture model as an example

Xingjie Yang, Yihang Hu, Huseyin Caliskan, Zhenhong Qi and Qiang Liu

Marine organizational collaborative network: Enhancing technological innovation for environmental monitoring

Yanmei Wang, Enhui Sun and Wenying Yan

Operational performance of urban real estate in China: An additive network DEA model

Hao Zhang, Wattanaporn Nalinrat, Rong Xiang, Anyu Yu and Yue Gao

Analyzing convergence across African economies while allowing for measurement errors

Raffaele Mattera and Philip Hans Franses

Does artificial intelligence promote disruptive innovation in SRDI enterprises: Evidence from LLM-based text analysis

Xu Zhang, Zhongmin Yan and Abdul Rauf

System dynamics modelling for improving regional logistics integration: A case study of western China

Xuelu Xu, Binxin Yang, Peiming He, Mengyao Tao and Litai Chen

Hidden heterogeneity in measuring production factors: Implications for two-stage efficiency analysis

Lukáš Frýd and Ondřej Sokol

The era of AI: Technological change, data protection, and inter-industry wage inequality

Tailong Li and Jinmeng Shi

Robot adoption and carbon emission reduction: Mechanism and ripple effect analysis

Yunsu Du, Qianqian Chen, Huaping Sun, Zhenhua Zhang and Denis Nikolaevich Sidorov

Blockchain-driven co-opetition in circular and resilient supply chains: A long-term evaluation perspective using trust mechanism

Mohammad Ali Hassanabadi and Ata Allah Taleizadeh

Sustainable joint maintenance and renewal planning for urban railways via lexicographic optimization

Malak Saiem, Faicel Hnaien, Hichem Snoussi, Brice Nelain and Anaïs Menetrier

Artificial intelligence, green finance and urban energy efficiency: Evidence from Chinese 282 cities

Jia-hao Wu, Yuhuan Zhao and Jingzhi Zhu

Inventory routing for humanitarian water distribution in drought-affected regions

Augusto César da Cunha Assumpção, Renata Albergaria de Mello Bandeira, Orivalde Soares da Silva Júnior, Yesus Emmanuel Medeiros Vieira, Letícia Caldas, Matheus Meirim and Rafael Martinelli

Dynamic interplay of sports, social, and economic factors in the English Premier League: A network DEA approach

Yixin He, Siwei Xiao, Marios Kremantzis, Aniekan Essien, Umair Tanveer, Ali Emrouznejad and Shamaila Ishaq

Forging supply chain resilience: The synergistic effects of AI-enabled capabilities and integration

Xingwei Lu, Xianhao Xu, Shaobo Hou and Fan Wu

Assessing grain production eco-efficiency under rural land management institutions: A hybrid analytical framework

Huazhu Zheng, Yongjiao Wu, Jungang Lu, Dong Cheng, Xun Zhang, Zhengyu Yao, Claudio O. Delang, Christopher Gomez and Hongming He

Optimizing medical waste collection in urban systems: A constraint programming approach for sustainable public sector decision-making

Hung Pham, Tuan Le, Nhi Huynh, Tuan Chu, Hiep Pham, Huy Truong Quang and Son Dao

Volume 103, issue C, 2026

Inclusive education and parental choice: How student characteristics affect school efficiency

Simona Ferraro, Kaire Põder and Triin Lauri

Introducing a novel AI-based text mining method illustrated through an analysis of German innovation proposals

Lütje Lange, Alexander Griffiths and Hans-Hennig von Grünberg

Preference using Root Value based on Aggregated Normalizations (PROVAN): A data-driven method for socio-economic and innovation assessment

Sanjib Biswas, Nibir Khawash, Prasenjit Chatterjee and Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

Post-shock resilience and preference for manufacturing? A study on Chinese provinces

Elena Prodi, Chiara Pollio, Marco R. Di Tommaso and Manli Huang

Moving from the South of Italy: The parental role on student mobility for tertiary education

Francesco Salomone Marino and Maria Berrittella

Temporal analysis of the clustering and hypothesized social contagion of mass killing events in the United States

Zachary T. Hornberger, Douglas M. King and Sheldon H. Jacobson

Case scheduling system for enhanced judicial performance

Maansi Gupta and Nomesh B. Bolia

The impact of artificial intelligence on corporate ESG greenwashing

Zhonghua Cheng and Guang Yang

How to enhance students’ well-being in Spain: A multidimensional study based on multiobjective optimization

Andrea Orozco-Villodres, Ana B. Ruiz and Mariano Luque

The role of climate risk in shaping longevity dynamics: Extending stochastic mortality models

Imma Lory Aprea, Francesca Perla, Raffaele Clemente Petrella, Mariafortuna Pietroluongo and Salvatore Scognamiglio

Spatial suitability and facility location planning for ammunition depots in Egypt: An integrated GIS-based MCDM approach

Ali Younes, Mohamed O. Abu Ghazala, Tamer A. Al-Sabbagh, Hamdy N. Eid and Mohamed A. El-Shenawy

Uneven paths toward sustainability in Africa: A multidimensional and Spatio-temporal assessment of SDG progress (2000–2022)

Andrea Ciacci, Enrico Ivaldi and Tiziano Pavanini

Operational decision-making for a leasing-selling closed-loop supply chain with authorized remanufacturing under carbon cap and trade policy

Biyu Liu, Wanying Chen and Haidong Yang

Productive vocation - A methodological proposal for the analysis of territorial factors of localization and specialization as drivers of development

Sergio Soza-Amigo, Claudio Mancilla, Luz María Ferrada and Jorge Parada

Blockchain barriers in public organizations: A systematic literature review

Angelo Murano, Bruna Bruno and Vincenzo Vespri

Leave me be, make me strong! Growing solo to innovate together. Results from machine learning techniques on the innovation performance in resource-constrained manufacturing industries

Ángel Peiró-Signes, Carlos Labarcés-Ballestas, Marival Segarra-Oña and Óscar Trull-Domínguez

Prediction of the gender inequality index based on data-driven interpretable ensemble learning methods

Mehmet Hakan Özdemir, Batin Latif Aylak, Celal Cakiroglu and Mahmut Bağcı

From investment to impact: Exploring socio-economic prospect of hydrogen investment in Tees Valley, UK

Vahid Ghorbani Pashakolaie, Bjarnhedinn Gudlaugsson and Tariq G. Ahmed

The conjoint use of the dynamic factor analysis and weighted forecasts: an application on inclusiveness in Europe

Paolo Mariani, Andrea Marletta and Piero Quatto

Impact of rural Return Entrepreneurship pilot policies on agricultural carbon emissions in China's Yangtze river Economic Belt

Hanxiang Luo, Zhaoyang Xiang and Tianwei Xie

Research on the operational strategies of data products under China's data element policy: Subsidizing service providers or manufacturers?

Yazhou Liu, Wenxiu Hu, Li Liu and Xin Wang

Designing an agricultural waste collection and transport network based on robust optimization

Yanju Chen, Yan Liu and Yuhan Wang

Quantitative assessment of the synergistic effect of pollution reduction and carbon reduction in the planting industry from the perspective of marginal abatement costs - Evidence from the main producing areas in the Yangtze River Basin of China

Yangyang Zhu, Xicong Wang and Zhenhong Qi

Improving business environment quality through online government service integration: A quasi-natural experiment in China

Yuqiong Lei, Xiaoming Liang and Zhanyu Liu

Probabilistic and statistical modelling for risk evaluation

Francesca Pierri, Marialuisa Restaino and Mariangela Zenga

Which indicator best measures cultural engagement? A comparative analysis

Alessandro Gallo, Francesca Adele Giambona and Daniele Vignoli

Assessing the global impact of artificial intelligence on energy resilience: The role of financial inclusion

Yanchao Feng, Tong Yan and Jia Guo

The impact of artificial intelligence technological innovation on global entrepreneurial activities

Yuqi Tian, Xiaowen Wang, Nanxu Chen and Zhenhua Zhang

Delivering fresh produce during a lockdown: The post-pandemic pickup and distribution problem with time constraints

Tianyang Cai and Yusen Ye

A review on multi-criteria decision-making in passenger transportation: Trends, methods, and future directions

Eren Kamber, Buse Yücel and Mehmet Gümüş

Foreword to the Special Issue “Data envelopment analysis: Novel models and methodologies for efficiency and performance assessment of public organizations”

Grammatoula Papaioannou and Victor V. Podinovski

Firm-level evidence on AI-driven output expansion and productivity in China

Quan Sun and Minjie Huang

Are European regions on the right track to achieve the 2030 strategic education and training targets? A comprehensive performance assessment

Maria João Durães, Flávia Barbosa, D’Inverno, Giovanna and Ana S. Camanho

Robust optimization of emergency resource location and coupling allocation considering multiple uncertainties

Jingwen Li, Xiang Zhang, Fengxin Dai, Liang Tang and Sitong Liu