A Survey of DEA Window Analysis Applications

This article aims to review, analyze, and classify the published research applications of the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) window analysis technique. The number of filtered articles included in the study is 109, retrieved from 79 journals in the web of science (WoS) database during the period 1996–2019. The papers are classified into 15 application areas: energy and environment, transportation, banking, tourism, manufacturing, healthcare, power, agriculture, education, finance, petroleum, sport, communication, water, and miscellaneous. Moreover, we present descriptive statistics related to the growth of publications over time, the journals publishing the articles, keyword terms used, length of articles, and authorship analysis (including institutional and country affiliations). To the best of the authors knowledge, this is the first survey reviewing the literature of the DEA window analysis applications in the 15 areas mentioned in the paper.