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Overview

Cinzia Daraio is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences, with a particular emphasis on management science and operations research, economics and econometrics, statistics, probability and uncertainty, strategy and management, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
  • Scientometrics and Bibliometrics Research
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Innovation Policy and R&D
  • Municipal Solid Waste Management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence

Recent papers authored by or coauthored with Cinzia Daraio include:

  • "Strategies for developing sustainable communities in higher education institutions," 2023, Scientific Reports
  • "Driving EU sustainability: Promoting the circular economy through municipal waste efficiency," 2024, Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • "Quality as a latent heterogeneity factor in the efficiency of universities," 2021, Economic Modelling
  • "Exogenous crimes and the assessment of public safety efficiency and effectiveness," 2020, Annals of Operations Research
  • "A comparison of three multidisciplinarity indices based on the diversity of Scopus subject areas of authors' documents, their bibliography and their citing papers," 2020, Scientometrics

Frequent coauthors of Cinzia Daraio are:

  • Simone Di Leo
  • Renato Bruni
  • Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno
  • Giancarlo Ruocco
  • Léopold Simar

Publications by Cinzia Daraio are frequently found in the following venues:

  • Scientometrics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Data and Information Science
  • International Transactions in Operational Research
  • Scientific Reports

The scope of their research bridges quantitative assessment methodologies like data envelopment analysis, with scientometric and bibliometric studies on research performance and quality. Their work also touches environmental and sustainability topics, innovation policy, and applications of big data and AI in management contexts. This diverse portfolio reflects integration of analytical modeling, data quality concerns, and sustainability challenges across public and academic sectors.

Best Publications

  • Advanced Robust and Nonparametric Methods in Efficiency Analysis: Methodology and Applications

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • Introducing environmental variables in nonparametric frontier models : a probabilistic approach

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • Conditional nonparametric frontier models for convex and nonconvex technologies: A unifying approach

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • How to measure the impact of environmental factors in a nonparametric production model

    Luiza Bădin;Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • Universities and Strategic Knowledge Creation. Specialization and Performance in Europe

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio

  • Optimal bandwidth selection for conditional efficiency measures: A data-driven approach

    Luiza Badin;Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar;Léopold Simar

  • Advanced indicators of productivity of universities. An application of robust nonparametric methods to Italian data

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • Central limit theorems for conditional efficiency measures and tests of the ‘separability’ condition in non-parametric, two-stage models of production

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar;Paul W. Wilson

  • Rankings and university performance: a conditional multidimensional approach

    Cinzia Daraio;Andrea Bonaccorsi;Léopold Simar

  • Efficiency and effectiveness in the urban public transport sector: A critical review with directions for future research

    Cinzia Daraio;Marco Diana;Flavia Di Costa;Claudio Leporelli

  • Explaining inefficiency in nonparametric production models: the state of the art

    Luiza Bădin;Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • Exploring size and agglomeration effects on public research productivity

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio

  • A robust nonparametric approach to evaluate and explain the performance of mutual funds

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar

  • The European university landscape: A micro characterization based on evidence from the Aquameth project

    Cinzia Daraio;Andrea Bonaccorsi;Aldo Geuna;Benedetto Lepori

  • University technology transfer: how (in)efficient are French universities?

    Claudia Curi;Cinzia Daraio;Patrick Llerena

  • Directional Distances and their Robust versions: Computational and Testing Issues

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar;Léopold Simar

  • A robust nonparametric approach to the analysis of scientific productivity

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio

  • The advantages of an Ontology-Based Data Management approach: openness, interoperability and data quality

    Cinzia Daraio;Maurizio Lenzerini;Claudio Leporelli;Paolo Naggar

  • Indicators on individual higher education institutions: addressing data problems and comparability issues

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio;Benedetto Lepori;Stig Slipersæter

  • Econometric Approaches to the Analysis of Productivity of R&D Systems

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio

  • Relationships between technical efficiency and the quality and costs of health care in Italy

    S. Nuti;C. Daraio;C. Speroni;M. Vainieri

  • Universities in the New Knowledge Landscape: Tensions, Challenges, Change—An Introduction

    Andrea Bonaccorsi;Cinzia Daraio;Aldo Geuna

  • A bootstrap approach for bandwidth selection in estimating conditional efficiency measures

    Luiza Bădin;Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar;Léopold Simar

  • Competition and efficiency in the Italian airport system: new insights from a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis

    Tiziana D’Alfonso;Cinzia Daraio;Alberto Nastasi

  • PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS SOFTWARE: AN EXPLORATORY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE OPTIONS

    Cinzia Daraio;Kristiaan H.J. Kerstens;Thyago Celso Cavalcante Nepomuceno;Robin Sickles

  • Fast and efficient computation of directional distance estimators

    Cinzia Daraio;Léopold Simar;Léopold Simar;Paul W. Wilson

  • Grand challenges in data integration--state of the art and future perspectives: an introduction

    Cinzia Daraio;Wolfgang Glänzel

  • Bibliometric indicators: the origin of their log-normal distribution and why they are not a reliable proxy for an individual scholar’s talent

    Giancarlo Ruocco;Giancarlo Ruocco;Cinzia Daraio;Viola Folli;Marco Leonetti;Marco Leonetti

  • Empirical tools to assess the sensitivity of directional distance functions to direction selection

    Antonio Peyrache;Cinzia Daraio

Frequent Co-Authors

Léopold Simar
Léopold Simar Université Catholique de Louvain
Andrea Bonaccorsi
Andrea Bonaccorsi University of Pisa
Giancarlo Ruocco
Giancarlo Ruocco Italian Institute of Technology
Henk F. Moed
Henk F. Moed Sapienza University of Rome
Paul W. Wilson
Paul W. Wilson Clemson University
Maurizio Lenzerini
Maurizio Lenzerini Sapienza University of Rome
Renato Bruni
Renato Bruni University of Parma
Kristiaan Kerstens
Kristiaan Kerstens IESEG School of Management
Robin C. Sickles
Robin C. Sickles Rice University

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