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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives	14
COVID-19 under-reporting: spillovers and stringent containment strategies of global cases	13
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	13
The closest strong efficient targets in the FDH technology: an enumeration method	11
A commentary on “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” by Finn Førsund	11
Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China	10
Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries	10
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	10
Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison	10
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	9
Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	9
Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands	8
Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model	8
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	8
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa	7
Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries	7
Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions?	7
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	7
Capacity utilization change over time	7
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	7
In search for the most preferred solution in value efficiency analysis	7
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	7
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	6
Innovation strategies and firm performance	6

The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	6
Aggregate productivity and inefficient cropping patterns in Uganda	5
Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence	5
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	5
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	5
Nonparametric measurement of potential gains from mergers: an additive decomposition and application to Indian bank mergers	5
From micro to macro: a note on the analysis of aggregate productivity dynamics using firm-level data	5
Editors' introduction to the special issue in Honor of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	5
Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs	5
Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	5
Accounting choices in data envelopment analysis	5
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	5
Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts	5
Weighted index of graph efficiency improvements for by-production technology and its application to the Indian coal-based thermal power sector	4
Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement	4
A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models	4
Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators	4
Performance analysis of hospitals in Australia and its peers: a systematic and critical review	4
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	4
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	4
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	3
Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana	3
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	3
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models	3
Do Egocentric information networks influence technical efficiency of farmers? Empirical evidence from Ghana	3
Addition and aggregative efficiency	3
Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
The conditional mode in parametric frontier models	3
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	3
Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors	3
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	3
A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale	3
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	3
Efficient estimation of true fixed-effects stochastic frontier models	3
The inefficiency of courts of justice: industry structure, capacity and misallocation	3
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	3
The denominator rule with unit ratio difference	2
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	2
Goodness--of--fit tests for stochastic frontier models based on the characteristic function	2
Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis	2
Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry	2
The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis	2
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	2
Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective	2
Farm and non-farm labor decisions and household efficiency	2
Performance of Water Utilities Evaluated from Different Stakeholders Perspectives: An Application to the Ivorian Sector	2
A general equilibrium assessment of COVID-19's labor productivity impacts on china's regional economies	2
Measuring heterogeneity in hospital productivity: a quantile regression approach	2
Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets	2
The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau	2

Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	2
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	2
Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective	2
On the problem of the purchasing power of money by A. A. Konüs and S. S. Byushgens: translation and commentary	2
The productivity growth of euro area banks	2