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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Performance analysis for three pillars of sustainability	21
Operational efficiency vs clinical safety, care appropriateness, timeliness, and access to health care	19
The sensitivity of efficiency scores to input and other choices in stochastic frontier analysis: an empirical investigation	17
Latent heterogeneity to evaluate the effect of human capital on world technology frontier	12
Stochastic frontier models using the Generalized Exponential distribution	12
World agricultural convergence	11
Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	11
Resource allocation in multi-divisional multi-product firms	10
Size and productivity: a conditional approach for Italian pharmaceutical sector	10
Efficiency measurement for general network systems: a slacks-based measure model	10
On aggregation of multi-factor productivity indexes	9
Unknown latent structure and inefficiency in panel stochastic frontier models	9
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	9
A new family of copulas, with application to estimation of a production frontier system	8
Energy intensity improvement and energy productivity changes: an analysis of BRICS and G7 countries	7
The shadow prices of CO2, SO2 and NOx for U.S. coal power industry 2010–2017: a convex quantile regression method	6
Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands	6
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	6
Nonparametric measurement of potential gains from mergers: an additive decomposition and application to Indian bank mergers	6
Modeling dependence in two-tier stochastic frontier models	5
Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry	5
Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model	5
Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis	5
On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model	5
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	5

Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence	5
Environmental information disclosure and firm production: evidence from the estimated efficiency of publicly listed firms in China	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison	5
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	4
Heterogeneity in frontier analysis: does it matter for benchmarking farms?	4
Probabilistic frontier regression model for multinomial ordinal type output data	4
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	4
Cross-country agricultural TFP convergence and capital deepening: evidence for induced innovation from 17 OECD countries	4
The closest strong efficient targets in the FDH technology: an enumeration method	4
Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance	4
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	4
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	3
A solution to log of dependent variables with negative observations	3
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	3
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	3
Capacity utilization change over time	3
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	3
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	3
Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: From both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors	3
From micro to macro: a note on the analysis of aggregate productivity dynamics using firm-level data	3
Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives	3
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	3
Investment Inefficiency and Corporate Social Responsibility	3
Estimation of costs of technical and allocative inefficiency	3
Do Egocentric information networks influence technical efficiency of farmers? Empirical evidence from Ghana	3
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	3
In search for the most preferred solution in value efficiency analysis	3
The productivity growth of euro area banks	2
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	2
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	2
A non-parametric investigation of supply side factors and healthcare efficiency in the U.S	2
Knowledge accumulation in US agriculture: research and learning by doing	2
Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective	2
A general equilibrium assessment of COVID-19's labor productivity impacts on china's regional economies	2
Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	2
Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model	2
Evidence from shadow price of equity on “Too-Big-to-Fail” Banks	2
Detecting Learning by Exporting and from Exporters	2
A semiparametric stochastic input distance frontier model with application to the Indonesian banking industry	2
Technical progress and induced innovation in China: a variable profit function approach	2
Evaluating the efficiency of municipalities in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity	2
A commentary on “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” by Finn Førsund	2
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	2
Modeling the effect of competition on US manufacturing sectors’ efficiency: an order-m frontier analysis	2
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	2