Farm efficiency and productivity
The topic studies how well farms turn land, labour, capital and energy into output and income. Technical efficiency, productivity and profitability are measured with data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontiers, often on data from the EU farm accountancy network. It also studies the link between farm size and productivity, the effects of policies on economic results and environmental efficiency, meaning how much is produced per unit of emissions or resources. Recent research looks at the economic value of irrigation water, the effects of climate on yields and incomes, circular strategies in the olive oil chain and the future of livestock in a sustainable system.
Description written by AI from the keywords, journals, most-cited works and recent works of the topic.
The last share tells how far the topic passes through few hands: in the field it ranges from 12% to 39%. 19% means that the topic has some reference groups but remains widespread. Signatures are counted, not papers: an article with four authors on the topic weighs four times, because the question is how much of the work passes through few people.
Trend over time and quality of outlets
Documents and citations per year
Journal quartiles (SJR · SCImago)
Attention in the last three years
The topic is in line with the field: citations received by its papers went from 2,519 (2020–2022) to 3,555 (2023–2025), while those of the whole field grew 1.55 times. Citations received in those years by all papers on the topic are counted, including older ones.
Who leads the topic in the last three years
- Majid Zadmirzaei Soleimandarabi · Enti stranieri · 164 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Fabio Albino Madau · SASSARI · 145 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Alberto Zezza · Enti stranieri · 131 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Sina Ahmadikaliji · BOLOGNA · 131 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
- Pietro Pulina · SASSARI · 121 citations received 2023–2025 from papers on the topic
Most active researchers on the topic
By papers on the topic. The last column still shows specialisation, to tell apart those who work on it a lot in absolute terms from those who work on it above all.
Who is most specialised in this topic
Not those who published the most on it, but those who devote the largest share of their output to it compared with the field average. Above 1 there is specialisation; the tick marks parity. Researchers with fewer than three papers on the topic are excluded.
| Name | Institution | Papers on the topic | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Majid Zadmirzaei Soleimandarabi | Foreign institutions | 15 | 20.08 |
| Concetta Cardillo | CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia | 11 | 11.81 |
| Orlando Cimino | CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia | 10 | 10.63 |
| Edoardo Baldoni | Foreign institutions | 11 | 9.51 |
| Fabio Albino Madau | Università degli Studi di Sassari | 12 | 6.02 |
| Roberto Henke | CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia | 12 | 5.43 |
| Silvia Coderoni | Università degli Studi di Teramo | 9 | 4.34 |
| Maria Bonaventura Forleo | Università degli Studi del Molise | 9 | 4.12 |
| Anna Irene De Luca | Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria | 10 | 3.46 |
| Giacomo Falcone | Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria | 9 | 3.41 |
Most active institutions
The number tells how much work on the topic comes from each institution; specialisation tells how much the topic weighs within the institution compared with the field average. A small, focused institution can be more specialised than a large one that does everything.
| Institution | Papers on the topic | Specialisation |
|---|---|---|
| CREA – Centro di ricerca Politiche e Bioeconomia | 138 | 2.73 |
| Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna | 46 | 0.75 |
| Università degli Studi di Catania | 43 | 0.64 |
| Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria | 43 | 1.81 |
| Università degli Studi di Palermo | 43 | 1.14 |
| Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro | 42 | 1.36 |
| Foreign institutions | 42 | 1.06 |
| Università degli Studi di Milano | 42 | 1.20 |
| Università degli Studi di Perugia | 35 | 1.55 |
| Università degli Studi di Sassari | 35 | 3.01 |
Institutions in Italy
- CREA-PB (Roma)85
- Bologna29
- Palermo22
- Milano21
- Bari20
- Tuscia (Viterbo)20
- Napoli Parthenope19
- Napoli Federico II (Portici)18
International collaboration
Related topics
The topics that most often appear in the same papers. The number is the papers in common.
Recurring keywords
Main journals
- Sustainability (Switzerland) · 21 papers
- Agricultural and Food Economics · 20 papers
- Bio-based and Applied Economics · 14 papers
- Economia Agro-Alimentare · 14 papers
- Quality - Access to Success · 13 papers
- Journal of Cleaner Production · 12 papers
- Land · 11 papers
- Agriculture (Switzerland) · 10 papers
- New Medit · 10 papers
- Wine Economics and Policy · 9 papers
- Agricultural Water Management · 7 papers
- Italian Review of Agricultural Economics · 7 papers
Most cited publications on the topic
- Design efficiency for non-market valuation with choice modelling: How to measure it, what to report and why2008 · 523 citations
- Fact or artifact: The impact of measurement errors on the farm size-productivity relationship2013 · 255 citations
- A Cross-Country Comparison of Rural Income Generating Activities2010 · 255 citations
- Environmental efficiency analysis and estimation of CO2 abatement costs in dairy cattle farms in Umbria (Italy): A SBM-DEA model with undesirable output2018 · 204 citations
- A non-parametric bootstrap-data envelopment analysis approach for environmental policy planning and management of agricultural efficiency in EU countries2017 · 176 citations
- Sustainability evaluation of Sicily's lemon and orange production: Anenergy, economic and environmental analysis2013 · 137 citations
- The intersection of blockchain technology and circular economy in the agri-food sector12023 · 130 citations
- Optimization of organic and conventional olive agricultural practices from a Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing perspectives2014 · 127 citations
- Assessing the economic marginality of agricultural lands in Italy to support land use planning2018 · 123 citations
- Assessing eco-efficiency of arable farms in rural areas2017 · 121 citations