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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	32
Global- and Biennial Malmquist Indexes with a Location Favourability Decomposition	27
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	24
Growth decomposition and analysis: a comparative study of mauritius and senegal	22
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	21
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	19
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	18
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	14
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	14
Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China	13
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	12
Laspeyres-Paasche bounds for productivity index	11
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	11
Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award	10
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	9
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	9
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	9
Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund	8
Dedication to my father, Robert	8
Shape-aware deep learning for models of production	8
Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain	8
Is newer always better? A reinvestigation of productivity dynamics using updated PWT data	7
Regularized conditional estimators of unit inefficiency in stochastic frontier analysis, with application to electricity distribution market	7
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	7
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	7

The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation	7
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	7
Fintech and bank efficiency: a robust nonparametric approach for Chinese commercial banks	7
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	6
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	6
Regional differences in Italian school efficiency: A conditional DEA approach	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	6
Flying high or falling short? markup and product differentiation in the U.S. airline industry (2002–2022)	6
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	6
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
Capacity utilization change over time	6
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	6
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Estimating the propagation of both reported and undocumented COVID-19 cases in Spain: a panel data frontier approximation of epidemiological models	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5
Latent class models with persistence in regime changes: a distributed lag analysis	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	5
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	5
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Estimates with Trade-offs for Improved Reallocation Processes	5