Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

1967 - 2026

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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

Volume 102, issue C, 2025

University library performance management: Applying zero-sum gains DEA models to resource allocation

Marcella Bernardo, Matheus Alves Madeira de Souza, Ramon Sávio Moreira Lopes and Lásara Fabrícia Rodrigues

Carbon-economic equilibrium strategy towards a green electric coal supply chain integrated with coalbed methane under low carbon policies and hydropower volatilities

Siwei Zhao, Xuewu Chen and Lu Gan

A sustainable Two-Echelon waste collection routing: Understanding waste picker behavior

Diana A. Peña, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres and Lionel Amodeo

Search externalities, job-housing distribution and commuting subsidies in a two-city system

Ting-Ting Miao and Hai-Jun Huang

A location routing approach for mass evacuation planning with electric Trucks: An application to volcano-related disasters in Indonesia

Rahmad Inca Liperda, A.A.N. Perwira Redi and Meilinda Fitriani Nur Maghfiroh

Improving scholarship assignment using approximate dynamic programming: A Chilean case study

Sofía Redondo, Alejandro Cataldo, José Tomás Marquinez, Pablo A. Rey and Antoine Sauré

A street corner-level methodology to analyze the influence of points of interest on urban crime

Débora Barbosa Leite Silva, Thales Vieira, Evandro de Barros Costa, Afonso Paiva and Luis Gustavo Nonato

Testing facility location with constrained queue time problem: A case study on Brazilian capital cities

Almir Monteiro, Rafael Schneider, Laura Bahiense, Vanessa de Almeida Guimarães and Pedro Henrique González

A Bayesian approach for correcting bias of data envelopment analysis estimators using the super-efficiency frontier

Panagiotis Zervopoulos, Angelos Kanas, Andreas Fousteris, Gang Cheng and Salem Abdulrahman Alqasimi

Balancing fairness and efficiency in policing: A mean-variance utility and data envelopment analysis approach to arrest practices in U.S. cities

Soumyatanu Mukherjee and Sayan Mukherjee

The required link for actions on green macroprudential implementations to improve circularity performance in Europe: Fresh insights from PVAR

Le Thanh Ha

Performance evaluation of emerging grid infrastructure Operations: Evidence from ultra-high-voltage transmission lines in China

Bai-Chen Xie, Qian-Xu Wu, Yu-Yan Qin and Can Zhang

On the coherence of composite indexes of well-being: Multiverse analysis for formative models of measurement

Giulio Giacomo Cantone and Venera Tomaselli

Designing a bi-level waste disposal network by integrating environmental protection and sustainable development

Yuanzhe Liu, Huili Pei, Yaxi Zhang and Naiqi Liu

An innovative approach to efficiency measurement: Combining convexified efficiency analysis trees and data envelopment analysis to benchmark U.S. museums

Juan Aparicio, José L. Zofío, Doug Noonan, Dylan Thompson and Joanna Woronkowicz

Efficiency evaluation of the forest sector in China: A meta-frontier DEA approach

Dawei Wang, Feng Yang, Xiaoqi Zhang and Yu Sun

Two stages method-based on Africa smart irrigation system assessment for willingness to pay: A case of Ghana Northern Region

Tamimu Mohammed Gadafi, Decui Liang and Adjei Peter Darko

Wind of change for agent decisions and innovation diffusion: The ASPID predictive model for technology adoption

Carlos Sáenz-Royo, Ramón Hermoso and Francisco Chiclana

How does horizontal ecological compensation promote the coupled development of ecological environment protection and high-quality economy growth? Evidence from China's circular economy practices

Qingyuan Shen, Jintao Lu, Ilaria Tutore, Nicola Cucari and Qingbin Guo

Decision-making in sustainable dual-channel supply chain under carbon trading, risk aversion, and government subsidy policy

Abhijit Barman and Shib Sankar Sana

Multi-objective optimization for risk mitigation of medical waste disposal reverse logistics network

Yi Shi and Xingli Wu

Institutional variables and power firms’ productivity: Micro panel estimation with time-invariant variables

Simona Bigerna, D’Errico, Maria Chiara and Paolo Polinori

The half is more than the whole: How China's economic growth target affects forest eco-efficiency

Bohao Jin and Heming Wang

An evolutionary multi-stage public-private cooperation framework for emergency supply reserves with corporate reputation considerations

Langyu Zhou, Jing Zhang, Jing Gong, Chaoyong Zhang and Huige Xing

Agriculture-service integration and agricultural green total factor productivity: A case study of China

Yaoyao Song, Weiyin Zhu, Yuelin Yang and Erdou Su

Modeling socio-spatial resilience of public engagement with urban spaces

Qianqi Guo and Yuliang Wang

Trickle-down or siphon: The spillover effects of the digital economy on green innovation from the perspective of the circular economy

Yi Qiu, Cong Gao and Na Song

SLEP-less in Santiago: The effect of local educational services in Chile

Rómulo A. Chumacero and Leonardo Letelier S

Resolving stakeholder conflicts in high-speed railway route planning: An overlapping network and evolutionary game approach

Fengting Zhang, Pengcheng Xiang, Dan Wang and Jiafu Su

Impact mechanism and contribution measurement of digital transformation on scale expansion of Chinese enterprises

Meng Tian, Yiwei Wang, Lei Han and Zhuowen Yang

Multi-period capacity utilization measurement using a TOPSIS-DEA approach: A case study of the forestry industry

Yan Huang, Hanting Yu, Jiawei Wang and Meiling Li

Knowledge and technology transfer in German universities: An exploratory study leveraging information from university websites

Torben Schubert, Denilton Darold and Henning Kroll

Enhancing public safety through integrated UAV and police patrols

Shangyao Yan, Tsung-Hsun Hsieh and Yu-Chien Lai

Assessing the effectiveness of recent pension reforms: The French experiment

Jorge Miguel Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso and Najat El Mekkaoui

A hybrid method combining three-way decision and DEA game cross-efficiency for procurement mode selection in contract farming

Sen Liu, Rongrong Jiang, Ling Liu and Felix T.S. Chan

Assessing the resilience of water and wastewater utilities: A multi-criteria approach for Chile

Alexandros Maziotis and Maria Molinos-Senante

Game theory meets circular economy and sustainability: Bargaining game range adjusted measure unleashed

Mohammad Tavassoli and Reza Farzipoor Saen

How does open public data affect enterprise green transformation?

Long Ling, Lu Hu, Shaoqiu Li, Xing Zhao and Xixi Ye

Coordinated governance for data value release in China

Manman Cheng and Bin Zhang

Prepositioning of relief supplies jointly by a risk-averse humanitarian organisation and risk-neutral suppliers through an option contract

T Devi Prasad Patra and J.K. Jha