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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Productivity analysis: roots, foundations, trends and perspectives	13
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	11
Spatial dependence in production frontier models	11
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	10
A commentary on “Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs” by Finn Førsund	10
COVID-19 under-reporting: spillovers and stringent containment strategies of global cases	10
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	10
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	10
Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison	9
The wrong skewness problem in stochastic frontier analysis: a review	8
Another look at productivity growth in industrialized countries	8
Comment: Performance measurement and joint production of intended and unintended outputs	8
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	8
Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model	8
Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands	8
Short-run Johansen frontier-based industry models: methodological refinements and empirical illustration on fisheries	7
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7
Club convergence in regional labor productivity: how do Australian states and territories compare to the US, UK, and Canadian subnational regions?	7
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	7
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	7
Innovation strategies and firm performance	7
In search for the most preferred solution in value efficiency analysis	7
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	7
Capacity utilization change over time	7
Efficiency measurement in the tendering of road surface renewal contracts	6

The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	6
Nonparametric analysis of separable production technologies with intermediate inputs	5
Best practices, performance advantage and trade-offs: new insights from frontier analysis	5
Aggregate productivity and inefficient cropping patterns in Uganda	5
Firm heterogeneity, biased technological change, and total factor productivity: Evidence from China	5
Ph.D. publication productivity: the role of gender and race in supervision in South Africa	5
Performance analysis of hospitals in Australia and its peers: a systematic and critical review	5
Measuring productivity in the open economy: Törnqvist perspectives	5
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	5
Special Symposium on Lifetime Achievements of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	5
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	5
Editors' introduction to the special issue in Honor of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	5
The contribution of industrial robots to labor productivity growth and economic convergence: a production frontier approach	4
Nonparametric measurement of potential gains from mergers: an additive decomposition and application to Indian bank mergers	4
Weighted index of graph efficiency improvements for by-production technology and its application to the Indian coal-based thermal power sector	4
Exploring hospital efficiency within and between Italian regions: new empirical evidence	4
Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators	4
Accounting choices in data envelopment analysis	4
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	3
A generalized flexible functional form for α-returns to scale	3
The structure of production technologies with ratio inputs and outputs	3
Efficient estimation of true fixed-effects stochastic frontier models	3
Correction to: Eliminating congestion in China’s papermaking and paper products industry: from both the perspective of increasing and decreasing inputs	3
Partially Convex Production Technology and Efficiency Measurement	3
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	3
The conditional mode in parametric frontier models	3
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	3
Skewness-based test diagnosis of technical inefficiency in spatial autoregressive stochastic frontier models	3
A note on functional form specification in random coefficients stochastic frontier models	3
Addition and aggregative efficiency	3
Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana	3
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	3
Optimal solutions of multiplier DEA models	3
The impact of local financial development and corruption control on firm efficiency in Vietnam: evidence from a geoadditive stochastic frontier analysis	2
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	2
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	2
Goodness--of--fit tests for stochastic frontier models based on the characteristic function	2
Environmental efficiency measurement when producers control pollutants under heterogeneous conditions: a generalization of the materials balance approach	2
Model uncertainty and efficiency measurement in stochastic frontier analysis with generalized errors	2
A general equilibrium assessment of COVID-19's labor productivity impacts on china's regional economies	2
Performance of Water Utilities Evaluated from Different Stakeholders Perspectives: An Application to the Ivorian Sector	2
Measuring and comparing World Bank regions’ ‘ease of doing business’ opportunity sets	2
The impacts of agricultural productivity on structural transformation, and poverty alleviation in Africa: evidence from Guinea-Bissau	2
Proper modelling of industrial production systems with unintended outputs: a different perspective	2
Two-tiered stochastic frontier models: a Bayesian perspective	2
Do Egocentric information networks influence technical efficiency of farmers? Empirical evidence from Ghana	2
Farm and non-farm labor decisions and household efficiency	2
Spatial and cross-sectoral input spillover effects: the case of the Italian tourism industry	2
The productivity growth of euro area banks	2
The denominator rule with unit ratio difference	2

Bayesian stochastic frontier models under the skew-normal half-normal settings	2
The inefficiency of courts of justice: industry structure, capacity and misallocation	2
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	2
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	2