OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Productivity Analysis is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	15
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	12
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	12
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	11
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	11
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	11
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	10
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	10
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	10
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	10
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	9
Estimation and efficiency evaluation of stochastic frontier models with interval dependent variables	9
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	9
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	9
Symposium Overview	9
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	9
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	8
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	8
Dedication to my father, Robert	8
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	8
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	8
Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	7
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	7
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7

Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	7
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	6
Capacity utilization change over time	6
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	5
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Rejoinders to the comments on my paper “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs”	5
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	5
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	5
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	5
The productivity growth of euro area banks	5
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	5
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	5
Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach	5
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	4
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	4
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	4
Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry	4
Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity	4
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	4
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	4
Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China	3
Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	3
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	3
Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective	3
Correction: The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity	3
Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs	3
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	3
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	3
Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
Can digital transformation enhance total factor productivity? Evidence from chinese listed manufacturing firms	3
Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model	3
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	3
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	3
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	3
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	3
The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau	3
A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models	3
Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions?	3
Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?	2
Symmetries and duality in economic indexes inspired by R. Robert Russell	2
Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance	2
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	2
Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries	2
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models	2
Labor productivity growth effects of structural reforms: evidence from developing countries	2
Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries	2
Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico	2
“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam	2
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa	2

Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis	2
The conditional mode in parametric frontier models	2
On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model	2
Sequential data envelopment analysis: decentralization and solutions for panel data	2
Correction: Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	2
Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis	2
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	2
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	2