OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Productivity Analysis is 4. 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
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
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
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
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
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
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	4