OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Productivity Analysis is 5. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	16
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	13
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	13
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	12
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	12
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	12
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	11
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	11
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	11
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	11
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	11
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	11
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	10
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	9
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	9
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	9
The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation	9
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	9
Dedication to my father, Robert	9
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	8
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	8
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	7
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7

Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	6
The productivity growth of euro area banks	6
Capacity utilization change over time	6
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	6
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	5
Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach	5
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	5
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	5
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	5
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes	5