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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	21
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	19
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	17
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	16
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	14
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	14
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	14
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	13
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	13
Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China	13
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	12
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	12
Laspeyres-Paasche bounds for productivity index	12
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	12
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	11
Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award	11
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	11
Fintech and bank efficiency: a robust nonparametric approach for Chinese commercial banks	9
Dedication to my father, Robert	9
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	9
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	9
The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation	9
Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain	9
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	9
Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund	9

Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	9
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
Flying high or falling short? markup and product differentiation in the U.S. airline industry (2002–2022)	8
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	7
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	6
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	6
Capacity utilization change over time	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
Regional differences in Italian school efficiency: A conditional DEA approach	6
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	6
The productivity growth of euro area banks	6
Latent class models with persistence in regime changes: a distributed lag analysis	6
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	5
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	5
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	5
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	5
Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity	5