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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	15
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	13
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	13
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	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
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	11
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	11
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	11
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	11
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	10
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	10
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	10
Dedication to my father, Robert	9
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	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	9
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	9
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	9
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	9
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	8
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	8
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	8
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	7
Capacity utilization change over time	7
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	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
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	5
The productivity growth of euro area banks	5
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
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	4
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	4
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	4
Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs	4
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	4
Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China	4
Productivity slowdown and regional productivity heterogeneity	4
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes	4
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	4
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	3
Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	3
Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective	3
Correction: The contribution of innovation to farm-level productivity	3
Symmetries and duality in economic indexes inspired by R. Robert Russell	3
Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions?	3
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	3
Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
Correction: Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	3
Can digital transformation enhance total factor productivity? Evidence from chinese listed manufacturing firms	3
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	3
A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models	3
The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau	3
Productivity in Procurement Auctions of Pavement Contracts in Mexico	3
Bayesian stochastic frontier models under the skew-normal half-normal settings	2
Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets	2
Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis	2
Weighted index of graph efficiency improvements for by-production technology and its application to the Indian coal-based thermal power sector	2
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa	2
“Wrong” skewness and endogenous regressors in stochastic frontier models: an instrument-free copula approach with an application to estimate firm efficiency in Vietnam	2
Labor productivity growth effects of structural reforms: evidence from developing countries	2
Sequential data envelopment analysis: decentralization and solutions for panel data	2
The conditional mode in parametric frontier models	2
Productive efficiency analysis with incomplete output information	2
Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry	2
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	2

Efficiency measurement of higher education units using multilevel frontier analysis	2
Density deconvolution with Laplace errors and unknown variance	2
Persistent and transient inefficiency in a spatial autoregressive panel stochastic frontier model	2
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	2
The denominator rule with unit ratio difference	2
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	2
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models	2
Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana	2
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	2
Inter-industry and intra-industry switching as sources of productivity growth: structural change of Finland’s ICT industries	2
On asymmetry and quantile estimation of the stochastic frontier model	2
Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries	2