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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	15
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	13
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	13
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	12
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	12
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	12
Technical efficiency and firm heterogeneity in stochastic frontier models: application to smallholder maize farms in Ethiopia	11
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	11
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	11
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	11
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	10
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	10
Dedication to my father, Robert	9
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	9
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	9
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	9
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	9
Elasticity measurement on multiple levels of DEA frontiers: an application to agriculture	9
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	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
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	8
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	7
Estimation of bank performance from multiple perspectives: an alternative solution to the deposit dilemma	7
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	7

Capacity utilization change over time	7
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	6
The choice of efficiency benchmarking metric in evaluating firm productivity and viability	6
The productivity growth of euro area banks	5
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	5
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	5
A generalization of environmental productivity analysis	5
Vertical integration vs. specialization: a nonparametric conditional efficiency estimate for the global semiconductor industry	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
Trade for catch-up: examining how global value chains participation affects productive efficiency	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Changes in the productive efficiency of U.S. flour mills in the late nineteenth century: an input-distance-function approach	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	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