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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Resource capacity and economic growth convergence	32
The role of poverty measurements in achieving educational equity through school finance reform	25
Global- and Biennial Malmquist Indexes with a Location Favourability Decomposition	24
Alternative output, input and income concepts for the production accounts	22
Growth decomposition and analysis: a comparative study of mauritius and senegal	19
Analyzing the land and labour productivity of farms producing renewable energy: the Italian case study	18
Assessing environmentally sensitive productivity growth: incorporating externalities and heterogeneity into water sector evaluations	18
Nonparametric estimation of allocative efficiency using indirect production theory: Application to container ports in Norway	17
Finance, productivity, and exports: Theory and firm-level evidence from China	14
Direct utility functions for rank two and quadratic logarithmic continuous demand systems	14
Estimation of industry-level productivity with cross-sectional dependence by using spatial analysis	12
Laspeyres-Paasche bounds for productivity index	12
The evaluation of productivity in South African deciduous fruit industry: evidence from stone and pome fruits	12
Some Remarks on the Occasion of Léopold Simar’s Lifetime Achievement Award	11
Aggregation in efficiency and productivity analysis: a brief review with new insights and justifications for constant returns to scale	10
A class of generalized autoregressive score panel stochastic frontier models	10
General network production theory for good and bad inputs and outputs	9
Production under Physical Constraints: In honor of Finn Førsund	9
Firm exit and entry over the business cycle in Spain	9
Dedication to my father, Robert	8
Introduction to the special issue on African productivity	8
Shape-aware deep learning for models of production	8
The generalized panel data stochastic frontier model: A review and nonparametric estimation	8
Flying high or falling short? markup and product differentiation in the U.S. airline industry (2002–2022)	7
On aggregation of technical and revenue efficiency measures	7

Fintech and bank efficiency: a robust nonparametric approach for Chinese commercial banks	7
In Memoriam: R. Robert Russell, 1938–2023	7
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
Capacity utilization change over time	6
Efficiency in electricity distribution in Sweden and the effects of small-scale generation, electric vehicles and dynamic tariffs	6
Measurement and decomposition of profit efficiency under alternative definitions in nonparametric models	6
Two-tier stochastic frontier analysis: heterogeneous error distributions and model selection	6
Approximations and inference for envelopment estimators of production frontiers	6
The productivity growth of euro area banks	6
Adjusting for teammate effects in evaluating college prospects for the NBA draft	6
Persistent and transient productive efficiency in the African airline industry	6
Assessing total factor productivity across Africa: an empirical investigation	6
Using stochastic frontier analysis to assess the performance of public service providers in the presence of demand uncertainty	6
Regional differences in Italian school efficiency: A conditional DEA approach	5
Semi-parametric modelling of inefficiencies in stochastic frontier analysis	5
Introduction to the symposium on inequality, discrimination, and productivity	5
Latent class models with persistence in regime changes: a distributed lag analysis	5
R& D investments, outsourcing and non-neutral productivity growth	5
Production analysis with asymmetric noise	5
Stochastic vs. deterministic frontier distance output function: Evidence from Brazilian higher education institutions	5
Positive weights in data envelopment analysis	5