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Carlos Pestana Barros

Carlos Pestana Barros

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Economics and Finance
Portugal
2024
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Business and Management
Portugal
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
78
Citations
16942
World Ranking
313
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Business and Management in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Carlos Pestana Barros was affiliated with the University of Lisbon in Portugal. Their research spanned multiple areas within engineering, with a focus on diverse subfields including Food Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Immunology, Water Science and Technology, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist contributed to work on a variety of topics such as:

  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
  • Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Spanish History and Politics
  • Spanish Culture and Identity

Recent research publications by Carlos Pestana Barros included:

  • "Antimicrobial Resistant Salmonella in Chelonians: Assessing Its Potential Risk in Zoological Institutions in Spain," 2022, Veterinary Sciences
  • "Maximising ERP capabilities in order to preparate Consolidated Financial Statements- a practical application," 2022, 2022 17th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
  • "Detection and Handling of Threats in Pre-Established Networks Through a Junior Perspective in Internship Scenario," 2021, ARIS2 - Advanced Research on Information Systems Security
  • "Autobiografía política e historiográfica," 2022, Cuadernos de Historia de España
  • "On the use of the artificial neural network to determine heating parameters for active thermography in composites, a feasibility study," 2025, Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines

Frequent publication venues where this researcher contributed included:

  • Veterinary Sciences
  • 2022 17th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)
  • ARIS2 - Advanced Research on Information Systems Security
  • Cuadernos de Historia de España
  • Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines

Collaborations were documented with several coauthors, such as:

  • Clara Marín
  • Bárbara Martín-Maldonado
  • Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar
  • Sandra Sevilla-Navarro
  • Laura Lorenzo-Rebenaque

Best Publications

  • MEASURING EFFICIENCY IN THE HOTEL SECTOR

    Carlos Pestana Barros

  • The technical efficiency of the Japanese banks: Non-radial directional performance measurement with undesirable output

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Shunsuke Managi;Roman Matousek

  • Efficiency in European Seaports with DEA: Evidence from Greece and Portugal

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Manolis Athanassiou

  • The length of stay in tourism

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Luis Pinto Machado

  • Performance evaluation of Italian airports: A data envelopment analysis

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Peter U.C. Dieke

  • Performance of French destinations: tourism attraction perspectives.

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Laurent Botti;Laurent Botti;Nicolas Peypoch;Elisabeth Robinot

  • Technical and allocative efficiency in a chain of small hotels

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Maria José Mascarenhas

  • An evaluation of European airlines’ operational performance

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Nicolas Peypoch

  • Measuring the economic efficiency of airports: A Simar–Wilson methodology analysis

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Peter U.C. Dieke

  • Productivity in the tourism industry

    Carlos P. Barros;Fernando P. Alves

  • The length of stay of golf tourism: a survival analysis.

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Richard Butler;Antónia Correia

  • Evaluating the efficiency of a small hotel chain with a Malmquist productivity index

    Carlos Pestana Barros

  • Hotel efficiency: A bootstrapped metafrontier approach

    Albert Assaf;Carlos Pestana Barros;Alexander Josiassen

  • Performance evaluation of the English Premier Football League with data envelopment analysis

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Stephanie Leach

  • Technical efficiency of African hotels

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Peter U.C. Dieke

  • Analysing the determinants of performance of best and worst European banks: A mixed logit approach

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Candida Ferreira;Jonathan Williams

  • A Benchmark Analysis of Italian Seaports Using Data Envelopment Analysis

    Carlos Pestana Barros

  • Two-stage DEA: An application to major Brazilian banks

    Peter Wanke;Carlos Barros

  • A stochastic cost frontier in the Portuguese hotel industry.

    Carlos Pestana Barros

  • Corporate Governance And Voluntary Disclosure In France

    Carlos P. Barros;Sabri Boubaker;Amal Hamrouni

  • Performance of French destinations: Tourism attraction perspectives

    Carlos Pestana Barros;Laurent Botti;Nicolas Peypoch;Elisabeth Robinot

Frequent Co-Authors

Luis A. Gil-Alana
Luis A. Gil-Alana University of Navarra
Shunsuke Managi
Shunsuke Managi Kyushu University
A. George Assaf
A. George Assaf University of Massachusetts Amherst
Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Guglielmo Maria Caporale Brunel University London
Roman Matousek
Roman Matousek Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
James E. Payne
James E. Payne Oklahoma State University
Stefan Szymanski
Stefan Szymanski University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rangan Gupta
Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria
Ali Emrouznejad
Ali Emrouznejad University of Surrey
Richard Butler
Richard Butler University of Strathclyde

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