ABSTRACT
The role of education in transforming individuals, communities, and the country qualifies its public provision. However, the need to evaluate the use of allocated educational resources is of great importance due to competing demands for scarce public funds. Therefore the concept of efficiency in education comes in. This study aimed to explore research output produced on efficiency in education, including that linked efficiency with equity, quality, or inclusion to identify gaps for future research. The analysis used documents from the Scopus database published between 1990 and 2021. Results indicate that a total of 347 papers sourced from 247 journals and produced by 827 authors researched efficiency in education during the study period. The paper also documented frequently explored themes, principal contributing authors, documents, diaries, countries, and the most relevant affiliations and sponsors on efficiency in education studies. The gaps and limitations of the paper identified the recommendations for future research.
