International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment 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.)
ArticleCitations
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives190
Characterization factors for freshwater ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals104
Mitigating carbon emissions in the taxi service industry: a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of batteries for electric taxis and identification of a greener vehicle fleet98
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community76
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections76
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco75
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations65
From corporate greenhouse gas inventories to design-relevant LCAs: an integrated framework for industrial decarbonization62
Environmental impact of rocoto chili pepper production: integrated assessment of yield, bioactive composition, and environmental footprint60
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity59
Is laser-induced graphene (LIG) environmentally sustainable? Laboratory-scale life cycle assessment of LIG from petroleum- and bio-derived precursors56
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203052
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells50
How differentiating design strategies across building components lead to maximum reduction of adverse environmental impacts49
Mapping the landscape of life cycle sustainability assessments in Canadian agri-food systems: food commodity trends, gaps, and pathways to net-zero48
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?47
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment46
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization45
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank45
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment42
Social organizational life cycle assessment of wire arc additive manufacturing: a case study of a Belgian company38
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification37
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage36
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production36
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia36
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems36
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting35
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products34
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges33
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network33
Methodological strategies for social life cycle assessment of an emerging technology: a case study on circular flexible plastic packaging32
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop32
Environmental impact of mezcal production: assessing bagasse valorization and vinasse treatment for a circular economy approach31
A utility-based framework for avoided emissions credit-allocation in product reuse31
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects28
Reply to the “Land use and land use change emissions of forest land in Finnish provinces—an LCA dataset” by Lehtilä et al. (Int J Life Cycle Assess 30: 896–905. DOI:10.1007/s11367-025–02456-5)28
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability27
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review27
Claiming-based allocation for waste-to-energy in district heating26
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity26
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production26
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets26
A comparison of the life cycle analysis (LCA) models used to determine the carbon intensity of biofuels, biojet/Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)25
Life cycle and environmental impact evaluation of polylactic acid (PLA) production in Ecuador25
Life cycle assessment of printed circuit boards recycling from waste mobile phones25
Combining nutritional value with environmental impact: a novel approach to nutritional life cycle assessment25
Towards AI-augmented sustainability assessments: integrating large language models in the case of product social life cycle assessment25
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment24
Advancing social sustainability of battery: developing social product category rules - Goal and Scope24
From food loss and waste to feed: a systematic review of life cycle perspectives in livestock systems24
Life cycle assessment of an upcoming nuclear power plant decommissioning: the Fessenheim case study from public data23
LCA to evaluate the environmental opportunity cost of biological performances in finfish farming23
Decarbonisation Index (DCI): an LCA-based key performance indicator for the automotive industry23
Response to: how to fit regionalized characterization factors in matrix-based LCA?23
Life cycle assessment of reduce, recycling and final treatment of plastic primary food packaging in Norway using a system expansion with multiple functions scope23
Digital technologies and circularity: trade-offs in the development of life cycle assessment22
Social-LCA providing new insights and learnings for social responsibility—case pulp and paper industry22
Dissipation-based life cycle impact assessment of mineral resource use—a review, case study, and implications for the product environmental footprint21
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of recombinant human lactoferrin produced via precision fermentation: environmental drivers, hotspots and implications for sustainable scale-up21
Design of a nutrient profiling model for life cycle assessment of “superfoods” to address nutritional deficiencies and enhance environmental protection in Spain20
Correction: Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites20
Environmental impacts and improvement implications for industrial meatballs manufacturing: scenario in a developing country20
Visualisation of building life cycle assessment results using 3D business intelligence dashboards20
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review20
Exploring the use phase social impacts of smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning control systems: A scoping review20
Correction: Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203020
Identifying uncertainty in the global warming impacts of biomaterials: an analysis of biosuccinic acid20
Correction: A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment20
Life cycle–based assessment methods for circular economy strategies in the agri-food sector20
A carbon footprint of drinking water pipes in Tokyo: exploring the neglected use phase19
Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of technology systems at different stages of development19
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)19
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel19
Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units19
Attribution of Global Warming Potential impacts in a multifunctional metals industry system using different system expansion and allocation methodologies19
Torrefied plastic-fiber fuel pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels — a case study life cycle assessment for Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA19
The social life cycle assessment of products and organizations—methodological developments and implementations19
Social hotspots in the automotive industry’s aluminum value chains—combining primary and generic data19
In defense of the avocado: a life cycle perspective19
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers18
A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment18
Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project18
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances18
Potential impact of abiotic resource use considering country-specific supply chain: consumption-based characterization and normalization utilizing a multi-regional input–output model18
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA18
From analysis-LCA to message-LCA: a lost cause?18
Life cycle assessment of gas-based EAF steel production: environmental impacts and strategies for footprint reduction18
Life cycle assessment of offshore low-head pumped hydro storage and its comparison with other energy storage technologies18
Development of an LCA-based tool to assess the environmental sustainability level of cosmetics products18
Rethinking social life cycle assessment for agricultural systems: insights using the pig value chain in the Republic of Ireland as a case study18
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production17
The basket-of-functions approach applied to compare the climate aspects of high-quality mechanical recycling and downcycling of plastics17
Quantifying the impact of data quality on machine learning prediction: a large-scale study of construction product environmental declarations17
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach17
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?17
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting17
Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research17
Integrating the Job Demands–Resources Model into social LCA: the JD-R tool for buffering harmful working conditions17
Life cycle assessment of bioethanol production from banana, potato, and papaya waste17
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity17
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment16
ISO 14075 and social sustainability: balancing organizational and product approaches in Social Life Cycle Assessment16
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones16
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal16
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors16
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review16
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing16
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis16
Towards a non-speciesist social life cycle assessment16
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery16
Environmental assessment of jalapeño pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivation using the LCA methodology: comparison between conventional open field and aeroponic production16
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases15
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry15
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon15
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and machine learning for sustainable designs: a case study on protective layers made of mineral-bonded fiber-reinforced composites15
Life cycle assessment of insect farming: a review15
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of heavy machinery manufacturing: a case study in Türkiye15
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling14
Environmental impact analysis of molded pulp cups based on different LCA tools14
Including biochar’s soil effects in lifecycle assessment: application to a practice-oriented case study in Aguascalientes, Mexico14
From static to dynamic: Reviewing the application and potential of dynamic LCA to bio-based systems14
Profiling employability skills for life cycle professionals amid the circular and digital economy14
How does the energy transition reshape ecodesign of automotive components in battery electric vehicles? retrospective vs. prospective life cycle assessment14
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains14
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment14
Employee mobility and service-related management in the carbon footprint of services—German case studies14
Replacing location-based electricity consumption with market-based residual mixes in background data to avoid possible double counting: a quantitative analysis of effects and challenges14
Correction: Avocado production in different biomes throughout Peru: do differing cultivation practices translate into differences in environmental impacts?13
Avocado production in different biomes throughout Peru: do differing cultivation practices translate into differences in environmental impacts?13
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts13
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context13
Life cycle assessment of a marine biorefinery producing protein, bioactives and polymeric packaging material13
Evaluating social sustainability in European photovoltaic module supply chains through social life cycle assessment13
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment13
Correction: Elementary flow mapping across life cycle inventory data systems: A case study for data interoperability under the global life cycle assessment data access (GLAD) initiative13
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility13
Ex ante life cycle assessment of bauxite residue vitrification technology13
Balancing the green carbon cycle — Biogenic carbon within life cycle assessment13
Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review13
Process simulation-based life cycle assessment of the six-step Cu-Cl Cycle of green hydrogen generation and comparative analysis with other Cu-Cl cycles13
Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan12
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products12
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study12
Generic and site-specific social life cycle assessment of municipal wastewater treatment systems in Spain: challenges and limitations of the method when applied to resource recovery systems12
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting12
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies12
Meta-analysis of life cycle assessments for Li-ion batteries production emissions12
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel12
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production12
Recycling and reusing a robust solution, or a utopia for lowering the greenhouse gas emissions of buildings? The case of Denmark12
Joint production with multiple determining products: the case of platinum-group metals12
Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study11
Uncovering the environmental burden of hops: a spatially resolved agricultural LCA for modern beer supply chains11
Towards a method for poverty reduction potential in social life cycle assessment with application to the cobalt supply chain11
Grave without death? a plea for a more accurate wording of study scopes11
Sustainability results must be contextualized for improved communication11
Correction: Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment11
Adapting social life cycle assessment stakeholder categories and impact subcategories for informal economic sectors: insights from fish farming in Ghana11
Nutrient substitution for secondary fertilizer: Is current practice comprehensive enough? A review to reveal the LCA methodological challenges11
Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil11
Correction to: Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery11
The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project11
Ionizing radiation potential in life cycle impact assessment: broadening the assessment through inclusion of radioactive decay products11
Correction: Dynamic ELCC assessment of hospital building: contrast assembled interior decoration with traditional interior decoration11
A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value11
Policy implications of time-differentiated climate change analysis in life cycle assessment of building elements in Aotearoa New Zealand11
Beyond nutrients: advancing nutritional Life Cycle Assessment towards food context and health effects11
Meta-analysis of the greenhouse gases emissions of nuclear electricity generation: learnings for process-based LCA10
Life cycle assessment of hemp-based milk alternative production in Lower Saxony, Germany, based on a material flow analysis of a pilot scale10
Correction: Environmental impacts of battery electric light-duty vehicles using a dynamic life cycle assessment for qatar’s transport system (2022 to 2050)10
Correction: Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA10
Blockchain technology and Social Life Cycle Assessment: synergies and implications10
Increasing temporal resolution in greenhouse gas accounting of electricity consumption divided into Scopes 2 and 3: case study of Germany10
Life cycle assessment of Seed-to-Cup specialty coffee cultivated by smallholders in Yemen10
Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment10
Social performance and impact assessment of an autonomous system in the meat processing sector10
Life cycle assessment of different strawberry production methods in Germany with a particular focus on plastic emissions10
Author Correction to: Evaluating the environmental impact of debit card payments10
Partitioning product footprint changes into yield and environmental improvement effects: toward life cycle assessment of agricultural system transitions10
Life cycle assessment of ICT in higher education: a comparison between desktop and single-board computers10
Is small or big solar better for the environment? Comparative life cycle assessment of solar photovoltaic rooftop vs. ground-mounted systems10
Choosing reference land use for carbon and biodiversity footprints9
A comparative and prospective life cycle assessment of agricultural fruit wastes disposal: A case study9
Comparative life cycle assessment of four clean coal power generation technologies in Anhui province, China9
Identifying influencing physical and environmental parameters on fate and characterization factors for microplastic emissions in the marine environment9
Food waste management: evaluating the environmental impacts of kerbside collection and food waste disposers9
Life cycle impact assessment framework for assessing physical effects on biota of marine microplastics emissions9
Evaluating the environmental performance of mezcal production in Michoacán, México: A life cycle assessment approach9
Examining life cycle impacts of metropolitan food system scenarios: comparing top-down and bottom-up LCA modeling approaches9
Life cycle assessment of peat for growing media and evaluation of the suitability of using the Product Environmental Footprint methodology for peat9
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)9
Assessing the potential human health impacts of freshwater consumption: considering inequalities in water availability to assess the consequences of domestic water deprivation9
Prosperdyn—a tool to describe dynamic transitions in prospective life cycle assessment9
A parametric life-cycle model for assessing environmental impacts of 4G and 5G cellular base stations9
Life cycle assessment software unveiled: exploring features and functions9
Review of carbon emissions offsetting guidelines using instructional criteria9
Evaluating the Circular Footprint Formula (CFF) in the environmental assessment of mono-material carpets recycling: a case study approach9
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of leather-like materials from mycelium: Indonesian case study9
Prospective LCA to support the agri-food sector’s transition towards sustainability—89th LCA discussion forum conference report9
Guidelines on the selection and inventory of social life cycle assessment indicators: a case study on flexible plastic packaging in the European circular economy9
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cylindrical sulfide-based solid-state batteries9
Life cycle assessment of Chlorination–Electrolysis and conventional aluminum production: environmental insights from low-grade bauxite utilization9
Capital goods in life cycle inventory of products: a global systematic review and future research agenda9
Product environmental footprint of New Zealand leather production9
Prospective LCA of future pathways for used cooking oil valorisation: advancing renewable energy and sustainable materials8
Complacency in the quantification and reporting of climate impacts as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions8
Assessing the circularity and sustainability of circular carpets — a demonstration of circular life cycle sustainability assessment8
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical and clinical packaging required for medication administration practices8
Life cycle assessment of importing canned tuna into Aruba through different supply chains, in varying can sizes and in oils, brine or tomato sauce8
2022 SETAC Europe award for lifetime achievement in life cycle assessment8
Publisher Correction: Life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision-making for sustainable building parts: criteria, methods, and application8
Life cycle assessment of hospital bed assembly manufacturing: a baseline study of environmental impacts8
Life cycle impacts assessment of two gold extraction systems in Colombia: open-pit and alluvial mining8
Agrifood systems transformation for climate action and environmental improvements, with co-benefits for food security and nutrition8
Material flow analysis and life cycle assessment of chemical recycling of the polyethylene-aluminium fraction from used beverage cartons: effects of methodological choices in LCA8
Life cycle assessment for primary gallium production at industrial-scale8
Life cycle assessment of coke production based on real plant and model-optimised data8
Cooling load reduction strategies for community worship place towards attaining sustainability: a life cycle cost perspective8
Sustainable management in the slow fashion industry: carbon footprint of an Italian brand8
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of iodine production from caliche ore in Chile8
Correction to: Including GHG emissions from mangrove forests LULUC in LCA: a case study on shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam8
Environmental and socio-economic analysis of the Ivorian market vegetables suburban systems in the context of an agroecological transition8
LCA of transformers: a systematic review of methods, dominant contributors and research gaps8
Comparative study on environmental and economic assessment of straw heating across administrative areas scale of rural China8
Sustainable leafy greens: a techno-economic and environmental assessment of baby rocket production in a photovoltaic-powered growth room7
Time‑explicit life cycle assessment of a lyocell dress using bw_timex with biogenic carbon accounting7
Ecodesign of collagen extraction from tilapia skin: an integrated economic–environmental framework for process and product improvement at the laboratory scale7
Enhancing life cycle thinking in emerging sectors: the example of hydrogen technologies and the opportunities of the Life Cycle Data Network7
Soil-less is more? A comparative life cycle assessment case study of agricultural growing methods7
Correction: Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review7
Environmental and social life cycle assessment of milk—the effect of leguminous feed crops in dairy cow diets on sustainability7
Life cycle environmental impact assessment of lab-scale preparation of porous alumina pellets as substrate for hydrogen separation metal layer-based membranes7
Assessing climate impacts of agroforestry system in LCA: case study in Zambia7
Testing the use of a large language model (LLM) for performing data quality assessment7
Toxicity impacts evolution in the Environmental Footprint methods: an example-based interpretation of the results7
A comparison of circular business models using life cycle assessment, focusing on clothing retail, distribution and use7
Towards a non-ambiguous view of the amortization period for quantifying direct land-use change in LCA7
Extrapolation factors for calculating ecotoxicity effects in LCA7
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of a wildlife park in northern Germany7
Meta-analysis of the life cycle of small-sized power converters: a systematic review7
Methods for quantifying and incorporating biomass carbon sequestration by trees in life cycle assessments7
Modelling greenhouse gas emissions of land use and land-use change using spatially explicit land conversion data for French crops7
Factors contributing to the relevance and continuity of life cycle assessment networks7
Evaluating the end-of-life modelling for circular economy strategies in the life cycle assessment of building materials7
Milk production from family agro-industries in São Paulo state: Carbon balance accounting7
Life cycle assessment of cement industry with CO2 capture and purification: environmental feasibility and synergistic emission reduction7
Factors influencing the carbon footprint of rice production in Northeastern Vietnam7
Life cycle assessment: from industry to policy to politics7
Environmental impact of biodegradable and non-biodegradable agricultural mulch film: A case study for Nordic conditions7
Transforming the feeding regime towards low-input increases the environmental impact of organic milk production on a case study farm in central germany7
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