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  1. Gaganis, Chrysovalantis & Pasiouras, Fotios & Tasiou, Menelaos & Zopounidis, Constantin, 2021. "CISEF: A composite index of social, environmental and financial performance," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 291(1), pages 394-409.
  2. Danilo Cavapozzi & Wei Han & Raffaele Miniaci, 2015. "Alternative weighting structures for multidimensional poverty assessment," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 13(3), pages 425-447, September.
  3. Wipo, 2015. "Global Innovation Index 2015," WIPO Economics & Statistics Series, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division, number 2015:gii, January.
  4. Luzzati, T. & Gucciardi, G., 2015. "A non-simplistic approach to composite indicators and rankings: an illustration by comparing the sustainability of the EU Countries," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 25-38.
  5. Luca Farnia & Laura Cavalli & Sergio Vergalli, 2019. "Italian Cities SDGs Composite Index: A Methodological Approach to Measure the Agenda 2030 at Urban Level," Working Papers 2019.18, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
  6. Roshanghalb, Afsaneh & Mazzali, Cristina & Lettieri, Emanuele & Paganoni, Anna Maria & Bottle, Alex, 2021. "Stability over time of the “hospital effect” on 30-day unplanned readmissions: Evidence from administrative data," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(10), pages 1393-1397.
  7. Valiant O Odhiambo & Sheryl L Hendriks & Eness P Mutsvangwa-Sammie, 2021. "The effect of an objective weighting of the global food security index’s natural resources and resilience component on country scores and ranking," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 13(6), pages 1343-1357, December.
  8. Marta Kuc-Czarnecka & Andrea Saltelli, 2025. "Ranking the rankers. An analysis of science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 130(3), pages 1497-1517, March.
  9. Eda Ustaoglu & Gloria Ortega Lopez & Alejandro Gutierrez-Alcoba, 2025. "Building composite indicators for the territorial quality of life assessment in European regions: combining data reduction and alternative weighting techniques," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 27(3), pages 6025-6063, March.
  10. Gisselquist, Rachel M., 2013. "Evaluating Governance Indexes: Critical and Less Critical Questions," WIDER Working Paper Series 068, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  11. Eric Tate & Aaron Strong & Travis Kraus & Haoyi Xiong, 2016. "Flood recovery and property acquisition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 80(3), pages 2055-2079, February.
  12. Milica Maricic & Jose A. Egea & Veljko Jeremic, 2019. "A Hybrid Enhanced Scatter Search—Composite I-Distance Indicator (eSS-CIDI) Optimization Approach for Determining Weights Within Composite Indicators," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 144(2), pages 497-537, July.
  13. Martin Schlossarek & Miroslav Syrovátka & Ondřej Vencálek, 2019. "The Importance of Variables in Composite Indices: A Contribution to the Methodology and Application to Development Indices," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 145(3), pages 1125-1160, October.
  14. Meng-Chen Zhang & Bo-Wei Zhu & Chao-Meng Huang & Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng, 2021. "Systematic Evaluation Model for Developing Sustainable World-Class Universities: An East Asian Perspective," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-20, April.
  15. Zhang, L.P. & Zhou, P., 2024. "Reassessing energy security risk incorporating external shock: A variance-based composite indicator approach," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 358(C).
  16. Wiriya Puntub & Stefan Greiving, 2022. "Advanced Operationalization Framework for Climate-Resilient Urban Public Health Care Services: Composite Indicators-Based Scenario Assessment of Khon Kaen City, Thailand," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(3), pages 1-20, January.
  17. Tommaso Luzzati & Bruno Cheli & Gianluca Gucciardi, 2017. "Communicating the uncertainty of synthetic indicators: a reassessment of the HDI ranking," Discussion Papers 2017/228, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
  18. María del Carmen Bas & Stefano Tarantola & José Miguel Carot & Andrea Conchado, 2017. "Sensitivity Analysis: A Necessary Ingredient for Measuring the Quality of a Teaching Activity Index," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 131(3), pages 931-946, April.
  19. Andrea Saltelli & Arnald Puy, 2023. "What can mathematical modelling contribute to a sociology of quantification?," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-8, December.
  20. Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano, 2016. "Methodological challenges in building composite indexes: Linking theory to practice," MPRA Paper 73276, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  21. Angilella, Silvia & Doumpos, Michalis & Pappalardo, Maria Rosaria & Zopounidis, Constantin, 2024. "Assessing the performance of banks through an improved sigma-mu multicriteria analysis approach," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 127(C).
  22. Greco, Salvatore & Ishizaka, Alessio & Tasiou, Menelaos & Torrisi, Gianpiero, 2019. "The Ordinal Input for Cardinal Output Approach of Non-compensatory Composite Indicators: The PROMETHEE Scoring Method," MPRA Paper 95816, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  23. Berlemann, Michael & Haucap, Justus, 2015. "Which factors drive the decision to opt out of individual research rankings? An empirical study of academic resistance to change," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 44(5), pages 1108-1115.
  24. Wipo, 2014. "Global Innovation Index 2014," WIPO Economics & Statistics Series, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division, number 2014:gii, January.
  25. Greco, Salvatore & Ishizaka, Alessio & Tasiou, Menelaos & Torrisi, Gianpiero, 2018. "σ-µ efficiency analysis: A new methodology for evaluating units through composite indices," MPRA Paper 83569, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  26. Rosalia CASTELLANO & Antonella ROCCA, 2018. "Gender disparities in European labour markets: A comparison of conditions for men and women in paid employment," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 157(4), pages 589-608, December.
  27. Marta Kuc-Czarnecka & Samuele Lo Piano & Andrea Saltelli, 2020. "Quantitative Storytelling in the Making of a Composite Indicator," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 149(3), pages 775-802, June.
  28. Jacqmin, Julien & Lefebvre, Mathieu, 2016. "Does sector-specific experience matter? The case of European higher education ministers," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(5), pages 987-998.
  29. Vladimír Holý & Jan Zouhar, 2022. "Modelling time‐varying rankings with autoregressive and score‐driven dynamics," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 71(5), pages 1427-1450, November.
  30. Paredes-Gazquez, Juan Diego & Rodriguez-Fernandez, José Miguel & de la Cuesta-Gonzalez, Marta, 2016. "Measuring corporate social responsibility using composite indices: Mission impossible? The case of the electricity utility industry," Revista de Contabilidad - Spanish Accounting Review, Elsevier, vol. 19(1), pages 142-153.
  31. Víctor Amor-Esteban & Mª-Purificación Galindo-Villardón & Isabel-María García-Sánchez, 2019. "A Multivariate Proposal for a National Corporate Social Responsibility Practices Index (NCSRPI) for International Settings," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 143(2), pages 525-560, June.
  32. Carlo Drago, 2021. "The Analysis and the Measurement of Poverty: An Interval-Based Composite Indicator Approach," Economies, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-17, October.
  33. Samira El Gibari & Trinidad Gómez & Francisco Ruiz, 2019. "Building composite indicators using multicriteria methods: a review," Journal of Business Economics, Springer, vol. 89(1), pages 1-24, February.
  34. Maričić Milica & Bulajić Milica & Radojičić Zoran & Jeremić Veljko, 2019. "Shedding Light on the Doing Business Index: a Machine Learning Approach," Business Systems Research, Sciendo, vol. 10(2), pages 73-84, September.
  35. Rachel M. Gisselquist, 2013. "Evaluating Governance Indexes: Critical and Less Critical Questions," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2013-068, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
  36. Wipo, 2012. "Global Innovation Index 2012: Stronger Innovation Linkages for Global Growth," WIPO Economics & Statistics Series, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division, number 2012:gii, January.
  37. Biggeri, Mario & Clark, David A. & Ferrannini, Andrea & Mauro, Vincenzo, 2019. "Tracking the SDGs in an ‘integrated’ manner: A proposal for a new index to capture synergies and trade-offs between and within goals," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 628-647.
  38. Anna Matysiak & Dorota Węziak-Białowolska, 2016. "Country-Specific Conditions for Work and Family Reconciliation: An Attempt at Quantification," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 32(4), pages 475-510, October.
  39. Shakri, Irfan Haider & Yong, Jaime & Xiang, Erwei, 2022. "Does compliance with corporate governance increase profitability? Evidence from an emerging economy: Pakistan," Global Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 53(C).
  40. Kateryna Tkach & Chiara Gigliarano, 2022. "Multidimensional Poverty Index with Dependence-Based Weights," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 161(2), pages 843-872, June.
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  42. Eric L. Sevigny & Michaela Saisana, 2016. "Measuring Interstate Variations in the Consequences of Illegal Drugs: A Composite Indicator Approach," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 128(2), pages 501-529, September.
  43. Akeem Rahaman & Scott Mark Romeo Mahadeo, 2024. "Constructing country-specific debt sustainability indices for developing countries," Working Papers in Economics & Finance 2024-01, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth Business School, Economics and Finance Subject Group.
  44. Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, 2016. "Spatial Variation in EU Poverty with Respect to Health, Education and Living Standards," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 125(2), pages 451-479, January.
  45. Sandu, Suwin & Yang, Muyi & Phoumin, Han & Aghdam, Reza Fathollahzadeh & Shi, Xunpeng, 2021. "Assessment of accessible, clean and efficient energy systems: A statistical analysis of composite energy performance indices," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 304(C).
  46. Van Puyenbroeck, Tom & Montalto, Valentina & Saisana, Michaela, 2021. "Benchmarking culture in Europe: A data envelopment analysis approach to identify city-specific strengths," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(2), pages 584-597.
  47. Marijana Nikolic & Milenko Krajisnik, 2019. "Impact Of International Country Rankings On Economic Development Of European Countries In Transition," UTMS Journal of Economics, University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia, vol. 10(2), pages 259-273.
  48. Wipo, 2013. "Global Innovation Index 2013: Local Dynamics Key to Overcoming Global Innovation Divide," WIPO Economics & Statistics Series, World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division, number 2013:gii, January.
  49. Francesco Vidoli & Elisa Fusco & Claudio Mazziotta, 2015. "Non-compensability in Composite Indicators: A Robust Directional Frontier Method," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 635-652, July.
  50. Stephen Morse, 2016. "Measuring the Success of Sustainable Development Indices in Terms of Reporting by the Global Press," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 125(2), pages 359-375, January.
  51. Lola Martin-Moro & Meltem Öztürk & Florence Laufer, 2022. "Modelling the Prison Life Index with Value Focused Thinking Methodology," Working Papers hal-03851980, HAL.
  52. Giulio Giacomo Cantone, 2024. "How to measure interdisciplinary research? A systemic design for the model of measurement," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 129(8), pages 4937-4982, August.
  53. Henk F. Moed, 2017. "A critical comparative analysis of five world university rankings," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 110(2), pages 967-990, February.
  54. F. Franceschini & D. Maisano, 2020. "Adapting Thurstone’s Law of Comparative Judgment to fuse preference orderings in manufacturing applications," Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, Springer, vol. 31(2), pages 387-402, February.
  55. Bartzokas-Tsiompras, Alexandros & Bakogiannis, Efthimios & Nikitas, Alexandros, 2023. "Global microscale walkability ratings and rankings: A novel composite indicator for 59 European city centres," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 111(C).
  56. Greco, Salvatore & Ishizaka, Alessio & Tasiou, Menelaos & Torrisi, Gianpiero, 2021. "The ordinal input for cardinal output approach of non-compensatory composite indicators: the PROMETHEE scoring method," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 288(1), pages 225-246.
  57. Sosso Feindouno & Michael Goujon, 2019. "Human Assets Index: Insights from a Retrospective Series Analysis," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(3), pages 959-984, February.
  58. Zofio, Jose Luis & Aparicio, Juan & Barbero, Javier & Zabala-Iturriagagoitia, Jon Mikel, 2023. "The influence of bottlenecks on innovation systems performance: Put the slowest climber first," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 193(C).
  59. Battheu-Noirfalise, Caroline & Mertens, Alexandre & Faivre, Arno & Charles, Catherine & Dogot, Thomas & Stilmant, Didier & Beckers, Yves & Froidmont, Eric, 2024. "Classifying and explaining Walloon dairy farms in terms of sustainable food security using a multiple criteria decision making method," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 221(C).
  60. Ruiz, Francisco & El Gibari, Samira & Cabello, José M. & Gómez, Trinidad, 2020. "MRP-WSCI: Multiple reference point based weak and strong composite indicators," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 95(C).
  61. See, Kok Fong & Ng, Ying Chu & Yu, Ming-Miin, 2022. "An alternative assessment approach to national higher education system evaluation," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
  62. Cantone, Giulio Giacomo & Tomaselli, Venera, 2024. "On the Coherence of Composite Indexes: Multiversal Model and Specification Analysis for an Index of Well-Being," MetaArXiv d5y26, Center for Open Science.
  63. Ziwei Shu & Ramón Alberto Carrasco & Javier Portela García-Miguel & Manuel Sánchez-Montañés, 2022. "Multiple Scenarios of Quality of Life Index Using Fuzzy Linguistic Quantifiers: The Case of 85 Countries in Numbeo," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-28, June.
  64. Giovanna Boccuzzo & Licia Maron, 2017. "Proposal of a composite indicator of job quality based on a measure of weighted distances," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 51(5), pages 2357-2374, September.
  65. Giuseppe Coco & Raffaele Lagravinese & Giuliano Resce, 2020. "Beyond the weights: a multicriteria approach to evaluate inequality in education," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 18(4), pages 469-489, December.
  66. Dobrota, Marina & Martic, Milan & Bulajic, Milica & Jeremic, Veljko, 2015. "Two-phased composite I-distance indicator approach for evaluation of countries’ information development," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 39(5), pages 406-420.
  67. Iván Boal-San Miguel & Luis César Herrero-Prieto, 2020. "Reliability of Creative Composite Indicators with Territorial Specification in the EU," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(8), pages 1-27, April.
  68. Su, Weihua & Chen, Sibo & Zhang, Chonghui & Li, Kevin W., 2023. "A subgroup dominance-based benefit of the doubt method for addressing rank reversals: A case study of the human development index in Europe," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 307(3), pages 1299-1317.
  69. Khatab Alqararah, 2023. "Assessing the robustness of composite indicators: the case of the Global Innovation Index," Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Springer, vol. 12(1), pages 1-22, December.
  70. Eric Tate & Aaron Strong & Travis Kraus & Haoyi Xiong, 2016. "Flood recovery and property acquisition in Cedar Rapids, Iowa," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 80(3), pages 2055-2079, February.
  71. Riccardo Natoli & Simon Feeny & Junde Li & Segu Zuhair, 2024. "Aggregating the Human Development Index: A Non-compensatory Approach," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 172(2), pages 499-515, March.
  72. Greco, Salvatore & Ishizaka, Alessio & Tasiou, Menelaos & Torrisi, Gianpiero, 2019. "Sigma-Mu efficiency analysis: A methodology for evaluating units through composite indicators," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 278(3), pages 942-960.
  73. Zornić, Nikola & Dobrota, Marina & Jeremić, Veljko, 2016. "Measuring the Stability of University Rankings in the Field of Education," Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (2016), Rovinj, Croatia, in: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Rovinj, Croatia, 8-9 September 2016, pages 294-301, IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy, Zagreb.
  74. Sitara Karim & Norlida Abdul Manab & Rusmawati Binti Ismail, 2019. "Legitimising the Role of Corporate Boards and Corporate Social Responsibility on the Performance of Malaysian Listed Companies," Indian Journal of Corporate Governance, , vol. 12(2), pages 125-141, December.
  75. Syrovátka, Miroslav & Schlossarek, Martin, 2019. "Measuring development with inequality: How (should) aggregate indicators of development account for inequality?," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 1-1.
  76. Olavarrieta, Sergio & Quinteros, María José & Villena, Mauricio, 2021. "A Strategic Impact Model for Latin American Business Schools," MPRA Paper 107813, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 17 Apr 2021.
  77. John Rennie Short & Justin Vélez-Hagan & Leah Dubots, 2019. "What Do Global Metrics Tell Us about the World?," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(5), pages 1-16, May.
  78. Shilai Xian & Li Zhang, 2025. "Robustness Measurement of Comprehensive Evaluation Model Based on the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-20, May.
  79. Giuliano Resce & Fritz Schiltz, 2021. "Sustainable Development in Europe: A Multicriteria Decision Analysis," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 67(2), pages 509-529, June.
  80. Salvatore Greco & Alessio Ishizaka & Menelaos Tasiou & Gianpiero Torrisi, 2019. "On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 141(1), pages 61-94, January.
  81. Marek Walesiak & Grażyna Dehnel & Marek Obrębalski, 2021. "Assessment of the Europe 2020 Strategy: A Multidimensional Indicator Analysis via Dynamic Relative Taxonomy," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-20, August.
  82. Rabia Bovkir & Eda Ustaoglu & Arif Cagdas Aydinoglu, 2023. "Assessment of Urban Quality of Life Index at Local Scale with Different Weighting Approaches," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 165(2), pages 655-678, January.
  83. Mosnier, Claire & Boukhriss, Sanae & Minviel, Jean-Joseph, 2023. "Does pig production improves cattle farm sustainability in the French massif central? A hierarchical constrained directional benefit-of-the-doubt approach," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 210(C).
  84. Chao Shi & Kenneth C. Land, 2021. "The Data Envelopment Analysis and Equal Weights/Minimax Methods of Composite Social Indicator Construction: a Methodological Study of Data Sensitivity and Robustness," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 16(4), pages 1689-1716, August.
  85. Jordi Pons-Novell & Montserrat Guillen, 2022. "The Autonomous Capacity of the Elderly Population in Spain for Shopping and Preparing Meals," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(22), pages 1-16, November.
  86. Becker William & Paruolo Paolo & Saltelli Andrea, 2021. "Variable Selection in Regression Models Using Global Sensitivity Analysis," Journal of Time Series Econometrics, De Gruyter, vol. 13(2), pages 187-233, July.
  87. Matheus Pereira Libório & Lívia Maria Leite Silva & Petr Iakovlevitch Ekel & Letícia Ribeiro Figueiredo & Patrícia Bernardes, 2022. "Consensus-Based Sub-Indicator Weighting Approach: Constructing Composite Indicators Compatible with Expert Opinion," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 164(3), pages 1073-1099, December.
  88. Tommaso Luzzati & Bruno Cheli & S. Arcuri, 2014. "Measuring the sustainability performances of the Italian regions," Discussion Papers 2014/187, Dipartimento di Economia e Management (DEM), University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
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