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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	15
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	12
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	12
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	11
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	11
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	11
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	10
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	10
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	10
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	10
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	9
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	9
Symposium Overview	9
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	9
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	9
Estimation and efficiency evaluation of stochastic frontier models with interval dependent variables	9
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	8
Dedication to my father, Robert	8
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	8
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	8
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	8
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	7
Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	7

Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	7
Capacity utilization change over time	6
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	6
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	6
Rejoinders to the comments on my paper “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs”	5
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	5
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	5
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	5
The productivity growth of euro area banks	5
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	5
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	5
Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach	5
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	5
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry	4
Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity	4
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	4
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	4
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	4
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	4
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	4