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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Productivity Analysis is 4. 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
Quadratic-mean-of-order-r indexes of output, input and productivity	10
Productivity, investment slowdown, and misallocation: evidence from Indian manufacturing	10
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
Global Malmquist and cost Malmquist indexes for group comparison	9
Extending the zero-sum gains data envelopment analysis model	8
Capital and labor misallocation in the Netherlands	8
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
Facet analysis in data envelopment analysis: some pitfalls of the CRS models	7
Capacity utilization change over time	7
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
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
Editors' introduction to the special issue in Honor of Rolf Färe and Shawna Grosskopf	5
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
Further improvements of finite sample approximation of central limit theorems for envelopment estimators	4
Accounting choices in data envelopment analysis	4
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