Renato Villano

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
124 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Renato Villano is a scholar working on General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Renato Villano has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 49 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 47 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Renato Villano's work include Efficiency Analysis Using DEA (47 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (33 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (18 papers). Renato Villano is often cited by papers focused on Efficiency Analysis Using DEA (47 papers), Agricultural Innovations and Practices (33 papers) and Agricultural risk and resilience (18 papers). Renato Villano collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Ghana and United States. Renato Villano's co-authors include Euan Fleming, Isaac Koomson, David Hadley, Marc Jim M. Mariano, George E. Battese, Brian Dollery, Bright Owusu Asante, Lin Crase, Joel Byrnes and Boris E. Bravo‐Ureta and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Renato Villano

116 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Factors influencing farmers’ adoption of modern rice technologies and good management practices in the Philippines

2012 323 citations Renato Villano, Euan Fleming et al. Agricultural Systems profile →
Effect of Financial Inclusion on Poverty and Vulnerability to Poverty: Evidence Using a Multidimensional Measure of Financial Inclusion

2020 229 citations Renato Villano, David Hadley et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renato Villano Australia	22	859	812	564	371	227	124	2.3k
Gudbrand Lien Norway	31	824 1.0×	907 1.1×	559 1.0×	416 1.1×	80 0.4×	134	2.9k
Allen M. Featherstone United States	25	1.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.4×	363 0.6×	559 1.5×	266 1.2×	151	2.3k
Vangelis Tzouvelekas Greece	19	931 1.1×	624 0.8×	578 1.0×	346 0.9×	36 0.2×	66	1.9k
Colin Thirtle United Kingdom	27	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	795 1.4×	491 1.3×	55 0.2×	127	2.8k
Viet‐Ngu Hoang Australia	26	387 0.5×	569 0.7×	244 0.4×	317 0.9×	53 0.2×	85	2.0k
Euan Fleming Australia	18	832 1.0×	371 0.5×	411 0.7×	299 0.8×	41 0.2×	101	1.5k
Laure Latruffe France	22	1.1k 1.3×	671 0.8×	1.1k 1.9×	226 0.6×	67 0.3×	44	2.1k
Thomas Glauben Germany	24	834 1.0×	825 1.0×	196 0.3×	409 1.1×	53 0.2×	151	2.2k
Michele C. Marra United States	21	837 1.0×	748 0.9×	110 0.2×	287 0.8×	118 0.5×	74	2.4k
Philip Garcia United States	30	428 0.5×	2.1k 2.6×	232 0.4×	489 1.3×	148 0.7×	160	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Renato Villano

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Renato Villano

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20 of 20 papers shown

Asante, Bright Owusu, et al.. (2025). Do Migrants Matter for Farm Efficiency? A Stochastic Frontier Assessment of Rural-Urban Migration in Ghanaian Maize Production. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 57(4). 696–721.

Temoso, Omphile, et al.. (2024). The role of commercial agriculture in meeting sustainable development goals in South Africa: Evidence from municipal-level total factor productivity analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production. 463. 142723–142723. 5 indexed citations

Cacho, Oscar J., et al.. (2020). Dissemination strategies and the adoption of improved agricultural technologies: The case of improved cassava varieties in Ghana. Technology in Society. 63. 101408–101408. 11 indexed citations

Battese, George E., et al.. (2019). Family farms plus cooperatives in China: Technical efficiency in crop production. Journal of Asian Economics. 64. 101129–101129. 48 indexed citations

Piggott, Nicholas E., et al.. (2019). Determinants of Australian consumer lamb demand: alternative methods of index construction in consumer demand system analysis. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 1 indexed citations

Azeem, Muhammad Masood, et al.. (2019). Response to stockout in grocery stores: A small city case in a changing competitive environment. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. 49. 242–252. 14 indexed citations

Villano, Renato, et al.. (2019). Environmentally-adjusted efficiencies of Vietnamese higher education institutions: a multi-stage bootstrap DEA method. International Journal of Operational Research. 36(3). 413–413. 4 indexed citations

Asante, Bright Owusu, et al.. (2019). Evaluating productivity gaps in maize production across different agroecological zones in Ghana. Agricultural Systems. 176. 102650–102650. 31 indexed citations

Villano, Renato, et al.. (2016). An empirical analysis of the performance of Vietnamese higher education institutions. Journal of Further and Higher Education. 41(4). 530–544. 28 indexed citations

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Grant, Bligh, et al.. (2015). THE AUSTRALIAN WINE INDUSTRY AT THE CROSSROADS: A COMPARISON OF PERFORMANCE ACROSS MAJOR WINE- EXPORTING COUNTRIES IN 2000. UTS ePRESS (University of Technology Sydney). 21(1). 3. 4 indexed citations

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Villano, Renato, et al.. (2015). Cash transfers, local government's efficiency and poverty alleviation : the case of Davao region in the Philippines. Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Science. 6(7). 311–318. 2 indexed citations

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Hadley, David, Euan Fleming, & Renato Villano. (2013). Is Input Mix Inefficiency Neglected in Agriculture? A Case Study of Pig‐based Farming Systems in England and Wales. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 64(2). 505–515. 9 indexed citations

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Fleming, Euan, et al.. (2012). SPATIO-TEMPORAL GROWTH IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTIVITY IN PAKISTAN. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture. 28(2). 309–317.

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Villano, Renato, et al.. (2012). Measuring Operation Efficiency of Thai Hotels Industry: Evidence from Meta-frontier Analysis. RUNE (Research UNE). 3 indexed citations

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Villano, Renato, et al.. (2010). When Is Metafrontier Analysis Appropriate? An Example of Varietal Differences in Pistachio Production in Iran. Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology. 12(4). 379–389. 23 indexed citations

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Byrnes, Joel, Lin Crase, Brian Dollery, & Renato Villano. (2009). An Analysis of the relative efficiency of wastewater utilities in non-metropolitan New South Wales and Victoria. RUNE (Research UNE). 15(2). 153. 14 indexed citations

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Villano, Renato, et al.. (2009). Evidence of farm-level synergies in mixed-farming systems in the Australian Wheat-Sheep Zone. Agricultural Systems. 103(3). 146–152. 31 indexed citations

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Bastiaans, L., et al.. (2008). Improvement of Technical Efficiency in Rice Farming through Interplanting: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis in Yunnan, China. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 9 indexed citations

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Byrnes, Joel, Lin Crase, Brian Dollery, & Renato Villano. (2007). Putting Water to Work - Urban Water Utilities in Regional New South Wales and Victoria #.

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Pandey, Sushil, et al.. (1999). CHARACTERIZATION AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF INTENSIVE CROPPING SYSTEMS IN RAINFED LOWLANDS OF ILOCOS NORTE, PHILIPPINES. Experimental Agriculture. 35(2). 211–224. 10 indexed citations

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