The Diffusion of Research on Productive Efficiency : The Economist ’ s Guide to DEA Evolution
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Recent availability of electronically accessible databases of journal articles makes studies of the diffusion of papers through citations possible. Citation peaks have been found to be typically five to seven years, with a long tailing off. A seminal paper on theoretical and applied efficiency analysis followed quite another diffusion pattern. We identify four papers in the three decades following, based on aspects and ideas of the former. The conventional wisdom that the seminal paper lay dormant for two decades, and that efficiency studies only got rolling after the most cited of the four papers appeared, is shown to be wrong.
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