Productivity Measurment and Ranking of Research Units Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Today it is necessary and important that productivity is increased and universities and research units have basically roll at development of countries productivity.TThe productivity measurement of research units, their performance analysis and comparison has an important rule in increasing efficiency level these units, as well as, it is a confidence for future programming of units. In this article, malmquist index, which is one of the productivity measurement index is introduced. At the rest, the procedure for determination of the index using DEA method is explained and finally with an experiment example, the malmquist productivity growth index is calculated for 14 research units of Iran polymer and petrochemical institute (IPPI) from 1389 to 1390. therefore costs and human resources as inputs and revenue and scientific achievements as outputs for research groups are compared.
finally, the units are ranked with CCR results and AP model, and progress or regressive research units and faculties is determined.