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Social Sciences and Humanities
Japan
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
45
Citations
43143
World Ranking
3703
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Kaoru Tone is affiliated with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences, with a substantial emphasis on management science and operations research. The broader fields they contribute to include control and systems engineering, finance, accounting, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's work centers on several key topics:

  • Efficiency Analysis Using DEA
  • Optimization and Mathematical Programming
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Risk and Portfolio Optimization
  • Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
  • Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
  • Corporate Finance and Governance

Kaoru Tone has contributed research articles to a range of academic journals. The most frequent publication venue is the European Journal of Operational Research, with three publications. Other venues include the Journal of Intellectual Capital, Financial Innovation, American Journal of Operations Management and Information Systems, and Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Kaoru Tone include:

  • A modified slacks-based measure of efficiency in data envelopment analysis, 2020, European Journal of Operational Research

Other relevant papers within the same general domain but not authored by Tone are also part of the context, illustrating the active research area.

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Kaoru Tone include Mehdi Toloo, Mohammad Izadikhah, Qian Long Kweh, Wen-Min Lu, and Biresh K. Sahoo, each having partnered on multiple publications.

Kaoru Tone's research significantly involves data envelopment analysis (DEA), with work addressing efficiency measurement models, portfolio evaluation, and resource management efficiency. The research outputs cover diverse methodological advancements and applied explorations within operational research and finance.

Best Publications

  • Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software

    William W. Cooper;Lawrence M. Seiford;Kaoru Tone

  • Data Envelopment Analysis

    William W. Cooper;Lawrence M. Seiford;Kaoru Tone

  • A slacks-based measure of super-efficiency in data envelopment analysis

    Kaoru Tone

  • A Slacks Based Measure of Efficiency in Data Envelopment Analysis

    Kaoru Tone

  • Introduction to Data Envelopment Analysis and Its Uses: With DEA-Solver Software and References

    Lawrence M. Seiford;William W. Cooper;Kaoru Tone

  • Data Envelopment Analysis

    Kaoru Tone

  • Network DEA: A slacks-based measure approach

    Kaoru Tone;Miki Tsutsui

  • Dynamic DEA: A slacks-based measure approach

    Kaoru Tone;Miki Tsutsui

  • Data envelopment analysis: Prior to choosing a model

    Wade D. Cook;Kaoru Tone;Joe Zhu

  • Dynamic DEA with network structure: A slacks-based measure approach

    Kaoru Tone;Miki Tsutsui

  • An epsilon-based measure of efficiency in DEA – A third pole of technical efficiency

    Kaoru Tone;Miki Tsutsui

  • Dealing with Undesirable Outputs in DEA: A Slacks-based Measure (SBM) Approach

    Kaoru Tone

  • Sensitivity and Stability Analysis in DEA: Some Recent Developments

    W. W. Cooper;Shanling Li;L. M. Seiford;Kaoru Tone

  • A STRANGE CASE OF THE COST AND ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCIES IN DEA

    Kaoru Tone

  • A comparative site evaluation study for relocating Japanese government agencies out of Tokyo

    Yoshiharu Takamura;Kaoru Tone

  • Some models and measures for evaluating performances with DEA: past accomplishments and future prospects

    W. W. Cooper;L. M. Seiford;K. Tone;J. Zhu

  • Measures of inefficiency in data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier estimation

    W.W. Cooper;K. Tone

  • Evaluating cost efficiency and returns to scale in the Life Insurance Corporation of India using data envelopment analysis

    Kaoru Tone;Biresh K. Sahoo

  • Degree of scale economies and congestion: A unified DEA approach

    Kaoru Tone;Biresh K Sahoo;Biresh K Sahoo

  • Scale, Indivisibilities and Production Function in Data Envelopment Analysis

    Kaoru Tone;Biresh K. Sahoo

  • An epsilon-based measure of efficiency in DEA

    Kaoru Tone;Miki Tsutsui

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Zhu
Joe Zhu Worcester Polytechnic Institute
William W. Cooper
William W. Cooper The University of Texas at Austin
Lawrence M. Seiford
Lawrence M. Seiford University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William L. Weber
William L. Weber Southeast Missouri State University
Wade D. Cook
Wade D. Cook York University

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