Abstract After its introduction in 1978, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has instantly been recognized as a useful methodology for measuring the relative efficiency of different entities, called Decision Making Units (DMUs), given multiple criteria. Up until nowadays, the popularity of DEA has been growing and a significant number of bibliographical items was published, reporting on both theoretical and empirical results. However, the main applicative area of DEA remained the performance measurement in economics and business. On the 40th anniversary of DEA, the aim of this paper is to present the DEA bibliography of Croatian scientists (up until June 2018). We consider six main categories of DEA-related publications, followed with key statistics and an overview of keywords and research areas. The whole list of DEA-related publications used in this analysis is published online. We believe this research will shed light on the state of DEA in Croatian science and motivate future researches.

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克罗地亚研究人员发布的DEA学术文献调查与分析：1978年至2018年

摘要数据包络分析（DEA）在1978年推出后，立即被认为是一种用于测量不同实体相对效率的有用方法，该方法被称为“决策单位（DMU）”，具有多个标准。直到今天，DEA的流行程度一直在增长，并且出版了大量书目项目，报告了理论和经验结果。但是，DEA的主要应用领域仍然是经济学和商业领域的绩效评估。在DEA成立40周年之际，本文旨在介绍克罗地亚科学家的DEA参考书目（至2018年6月）。我们考虑与DEA相关的出版物的六个主要类别，然后是关键统计数据以及关键字和研究领域的概述。该分析中使用的与DEA相关的出版物的完整列表在线发布。我们相信这项研究将阐明克罗地亚科学中DEA的状况，并激发未来的研究。