International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Article	Citations
Using life cycle assessment to achieve a circular economy	131
The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades	93
Life cycle assessment and circularity indicators	76
Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production	74
Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment	73
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	69
Exposure and toxicity characterization of chemical emissions and chemicals in products: global recommendations and implementation in USEtox	63
Integrating life cycle assessment and life cycle cost: a review of environmental-economic studies	59
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research	58
Making the use of scenarios in LCA easier: the superstructure approach	55
Advances in application of machine learning to life cycle assessment: a literature review	54
Future scenarios and life cycle assessment: systematic review and recommendations	44
Carbon footprint of plastic from biomass and recycled feedstock: methodological insights	44
Life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biochar produced from forest residues using portable systems	43
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)	41
Life cycle assessment of decarbonization options—towards scientifically robust carbon neutrality	40
An economic assessment framework for decommissioning of offshore wind farms using a cost breakdown structure	37
Coffee biowaste valorization within circular economy: an evaluation method of spent coffee grounds potentials for mortar production	36
Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment	35
Environmental footprint of regular and intensive inpatient care in a large US hospital	34
Environmental benchmarks for buildings: a critical literature review	33
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cobalt sulfate production derived from a nickel–copper–cobalt mine in China	31
Quantitative study of life cycle carbon emissions from 7 timber buildings in China	31
Step-by-step social life cycle assessment framework: a participatory approach for the identification and prioritization of impact subcategories applied to mobility scenarios	29
Investigating the management challenges of the EU Ecolabel through multi-stakeholder surveys	29

Global scale life cycle environmental impacts of single- and multi-walled carbon nanotube synthesis processes	28
Life cycle assessment of ammonia synthesis in China	28
Review and expert survey of allocation methods used in life cycle assessment of milk and beef	28
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity	25
A framework for implementing holistic and integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of regional bioeconomy	25
Challenges with product environmental footprint: a systematic review	25
Combining circular and LCA indicators for the early design of urban projects	25
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach	25
Environmental assessment of a disruptive innovation: comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessments of carbon-reinforced concrete building component	24
Towards a more environmentally sustainable production of graphene-based materials	23
The environmental footprint of electric vehicle battery packs during the production and use phases with different functional units	23
Environmental and social life cycle assessment of growing media for urban rooftop farming	23
Influence of technical and electrical equipment in life cycle assessments of buildings: case of a laboratory and research building	23
Sustainability Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise handprint methodological framework	23
Life cycle assessment of behind-the-meter Bitcoin mining at US power plant	23
Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis	23
Functional unit influence on building life cycle assessment	22
Toward a framework for selecting indicators of measuring sustainability and circular economy in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review	22
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel	22
Environmental payback periods of reusable alternatives to single-use plastic kitchenware products	22
The common understanding of simplification approaches in published LCA studies—a review and mapping	22
Life cycle sustainability assessment analysis of different concrete construction techniques for residential building in Malaysia	21
Comparison of life cycle assessment between lyocell fiber and viscose fiber in China	21
Environmental life cycle assessment of yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) production for human consumption in Austria – a comparison of mealworm and broiler as protein source	21
Life cycle assessment of bacterial cellulose production	21
Life cycle inventory and impact assessment for an asphalt pavement road construction—a case study in Brazil	21
The role of electricity mix and production efficiency improvements on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of building components and future refurbishment measures	21
Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution	21
Selecting the best product alternative in a sea of uncertainty	20
Comparative environmental and social life cycle assessments of off-shore aquaculture rafts made in ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC)	20
Carbon footprint and embodied energy of a wind turbine blade—a case study	20
An approach to achieve overall farm feed efficiency in pig production: environmental evaluation through individual life cycle assessment	20
Toxicity impacts in the environmental footprint method: calculation principles	20
Circular economy paths in the olive oil industry: a Life Cycle Assessment look into environmental performance and benefits	19
Comparison of carbon footprint and water scarcity footprint of milk protein produced by cellular agriculture and the dairy industry	19
Teaching life cycle assessment in higher education	19
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)	19
How can LCA include prospective elements to assess emerging technologies and system transitions? The 76th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, 19 November 2020	19
Social life cycle assessment of an innovative industrial wastewater treatment plant	19
Freshwater eutrophication: spatially explicit fate factors for nitrogen and phosphorus emissions at the global scale	19
Comparative sustainability assessment of lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and all-solid-state traction batteries	19
Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater	18
Implications of LCA and LCIA choices on interpretation of results and on decision support	18
Applying three pillar indicator assessments on alternative floor systems: life cycle study	18
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	18
Environmental assessment of energy-driven biorefineries: the case of the coffee cut-stems (CCS) in Colombia	18
Environmental life cycle assessment for improved management of agri-food companies: the case of organic whole-grain durum wheat pasta in Sicily	18
The Bioeconomy in emerging economies: a study of the critical success factors based on Life Cycle Assessment and Delphi and Fuzzy-Delphi methods	17
lca_algebraic: a library bringing symbolic calculus to LCA for comprehensive sensitivity analysis	17
Allocation in recycling of composites - the case of life cycle assessment of products from carbon fiber composites	17

Mineral resource dissipation in life cycle inventories	17
Bringing nutrition and life cycle assessment together (nutritional LCA): opportunities and risks	16
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy	16
Freight transport in the context of industrial ecology and sustainability: evaluation of uni- and multi-modality scenarios via life cycle assessment	16
Applying social life cycle assessment in the early stages of a project development — an example from the mining sector	16
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries for sustainable design and manufacturing	16
Life cycle inventory data for the Italian agri-food sector: background, sources and methodological aspects	16
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel	16
Variance-based global sensitivity analysis and beyond in life cycle assessment: an application to geothermal heating networks	16
Critical analysis of life cycle inventory datasets for organic crop production systems	15
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets	15
Life cycle assessment of manufacturing cellulose nanofibril-reinforced chitosan composite films for packaging applications	15
Sharing is caring - the importance of capital goods when assessing environmental impacts from private and shared laundry systems in Sweden	15
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting	15
Carbon footprint of transhumant sheep farms: accounting for natural baseline emissions in Mediterranean systems	15
Measuring raw-material criticality of product systems through an economic product importance indicator: a case study of battery-electric vehicles	15
Exploring sustainability potentials in vineyards through LCA? Evidence from farming practices in South Africa	15
Life cycle assessment of peach transportation considering trade-off between food loss and environmental impact	14
Environmental assessment of copper production in Europe: an LCA case study from Sweden conducted using two conventional software-database setups	14
Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost of repairing surgical scissors	14
Life cycle assessment and process simulation of prospective battery-grade cobalt sulfate production from Co-Au ores in Finland	14
Influence of methodological choices on maintenance and replacement in building LCA	14
Strategies to improve building environmental and economic performance: an exploratory study on 37 residential building scenarios	14
Life cycle environmental and economic impact of a food waste recycling-farming system: a case study of organic vegetable farming in Japan	13
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	13
Social organisational LCA for the academic activity of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU	13
Life cycle assessment of a concrete 3D printing process	13
A social panorama within the life cycle thinking and the circular economy: a literature review	13
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack	13
Life Cycle Assessment in mineral processing – a review of the role of flotation	13
Feasibility analysis for floating offshore wind energy	13
Social impacts of large-scale hydropower project in Myanmar: a social life cycle assessment of Shweli hydropower dam 1	13
Modelling of different circular end-of-use scenarios for smartphones	12
Environmental and techno-economic analyses of bio-jet fuel produced from jatropha and castor oilseeds in China	12
Integration of life cycle assessment into a decision support system for selecting sustainable road asphalt pavement mixtures prepared with waste	12
Method to decompose uncertainties in LCA results into contributing factors	12
Distribution of environmental performance in life cycle assessments—implications for environmental benchmarking	12
Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects	12
Challenges in using soil carbon modelling in LCA of agricultural products—the devil is in the detail	12
Environmental life cycle assessment of rice production in northern Italy: a case study from Vercelli	12
The assessment of positive impacts in LCA of products	12
Understanding variability in greenhouse gas emission estimates of smallholder dairy farms in Indonesia	12
How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy	12
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin	12
Life cycle assessment of wind farms in Ethiopia	12
A modular environmental and economic assessment applied to the production of Hermetia illucens larvae as a protein source for food and feed	12
Including maintenance in life cycle assessment of road and rail infrastructure—a literature review	12
Use of life cycle assessment to evaluate circular economy business models in the case of Li-ion battery remanufacturing	12
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges	12
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical packaging	12
Terminology for future-oriented life cycle assessment: review and recommendations	11
Social Organisational Life Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment: different twins? Correlations from a case study	11
Implementing environmental labelling of food products in France	11
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry	11
An effect factor approach for quantifying the impact of plastic additives on aquatic biota in life cycle assessment	11
A research perspective towards a more complete biodiversity footprint: a report from the World Biodiversity Forum	11
How to evaluate circularity through an LCA study based on the standards EN 15804 and EN 15978	11
Environmental impact evaluation of co-products: decision-aid tool for allocation in LCA	11
Improving environmental performance in wine production by life cycle assessment: case of Lebanese wine	11
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceuticals: the ciprofloxacin hydrochloride case	11
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?	11
An improved resource midpoint characterization method for supply risk of resources: integrated assessment of Li-ion batteries	11
Two-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations in LCA: an innovative approach to guide the choice for the environmentally preferable option	11
Life-cycle impact assessment methods for physical energy scarcity: considerations and suggestions	11
Life-cycle assessment of redwood lumber products in the US	11
Cup plant, an alternative to conventional silage from a LCA perspective	11
Life cycle assessment of aquaculture bivalve shellfish production — a critical review of methodological trends	11
Life cycle assessment of regeneration technology routes for sintered NdFeB magnets	11
How to overcome barriers limiting LCA adoption? The role of a collaborative and multi-stakeholder approach	10
Environmental assessment of common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) from a small-scale fishery in Algarve (Portugal)	10
Distance-to-target weighting in LCA—A matter of perspective	10
A general framework for including biogenic carbon emissions and removals in the life cycle assessments for forestry products	10
Social evaluation of municipal solid waste management systems from a life cycle perspective: a systematic literature review	10
Application of holistic and integrated LCSA: Case study on laminated veneer lumber production in Central Germany	10
Normalization in LCA: how to ensure consistency?	10
Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance	10
Marine plastics in LCA: current status and MarILCA’s contributions	9
Environmental impacts of household goods in Europe: a process-based life cycle assessment model to assess consumption footprint	9
A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value	9
An LCA of hospital pathology testing	9

Wood forest resource consumption impact assessment based on a scarcity index accounting for wood functionality and substitutability (WoodSI)	9
Environmental impact assessment of ground source heat pump system for heating and cooling: a case study in China	9
Performance and environmental accounting of nutrient cycling models to estimate nitrogen emissions in agriculture and their sensitivity in life cycle assessment	9
Accounting for correlational structures in stochastic comparative life cycle assessments through copula modeling	9
Modeling spatially resolved characterization factors for eutrophication potential in life cycle assessment	9
Development of a method for estimating product-specific leakage propensity and its inclusion into the life cycle management of plastic products	9
Environmental Product Declarations for plants and soils: how to quantify carbon uptake in landscape design and construction?	9
The environmental consequences of a change in Australian cotton lint production	9
Addressing water quality in water footprinting: current status, methods and limitations	9
Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach	8
Water footprint assessment of lemon and its derivatives in Argentina: a case study in the province of Tucumán	8
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	8
Life-LCA: the first case study of the life cycle impacts of a human being	8
LCA and nutritional assessment of southern Benin market vegetable gardening across the production continuum	8
From social impact subcategories to human health: an application of multivariate analysis on S-LCA	8
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases	8
Life cycle assessment (LCA) on waste management options for derelict fishing gear	8
Estimating quantity and equity of carbon emission from roads based on an improved LCA approach: the case of China	8
A human-centered review of life cycle assessments of bioplastics	8
Integration of a circular economy metric with life cycle assessment: methodological proposal of compared agri-food products	8
A novel social life cycle assessment method for determining workers’ human development: a case study of the sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil	8
Life cycle assessment including traffic noise: conventional vs. rubberized asphalt	8
Life cycle assessment during packaging of market-sized seabass and meagre: necessary adaptations toward GHG neutrality	8
Environmental assessment of a new building envelope material derived from urban agriculture wastes: the case of the tomato plants stems	8
Applied properties and life cycle assessment of flexible packaging lamination processes: a comparative study	8
Carbon footprint and life cycle costing of maize production in Thailand with temporal and geographical resolutions	8
Spatial and territorial developments for life cycle assessment applied to urban mobility—case study on Lyon area in France	8
A new impact pathway towards ecosystem quality in life cycle assessment: characterisation factors for fisheries	8
Recalculating Australian water scarcity characterisation factors using the AWARE method	8
Challenges and risks when communicating comparative LCA results to management	8
Review of carbon emissions offsetting guidelines using instructional criteria	7
Life cycle assessment of different strawberry production methods in Germany with a particular focus on plastic emissions	7
A comparative cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment of single-use plastic shopping bags and various alternatives available in South Africa	7
Cause-effect chains in S-LCA based on DPSIR framework using Markov healthcare model: an application to “working hours” in Canada	7
Towards a non-ambiguous view of the amortization period for quantifying direct land-use change in LCA	7
Reducing cooling load and lifecycle cost for residential buildings: a case of Lahore, Pakistan	7
Planning sustainable carbon neutrality pathways: accounting challenges experienced by organizations and solutions from industrial ecology	7
Comparative life cycle assessment of railway subballast layer with natural and coal overburden aggregates in India	7
Life cycle assessment of bio-based fertilizers production systems: where are we and where should we be heading?	7
Environmental life cycle assessment of production of the high intensity sweetener steviol glycosides from Stevia rebaudiana leaf grown in Europe: The SWEET project	7
Environmental co-benefits and trade-offs of climate mitigation strategies applied to net-zero-emission neighbourhoods	7
Clarify the nexus between life cycle assessment and circularity indicators: a SETAC/ACLCA interest group	7
An axiomatic method for goal-dependent allocation in life cycle assessment	7
Application of territorial emission factors with open-access data—a territorial LCA case study of land use for livestock production in Wallonia	7
A comparative LCA as a tool for evaluating existing best available techniques (BATs) in facing brick manufacturing and more eco-sustainable coating solutions	7
A parametric study on the impact of open-source inventory variability and uncertainty for the life cycle assessment of road bituminous pavements	7
A systematic review of consequential LCA on buildings: the perspectives and challenges of applications and inventory modelling	6
Multifunctional modelling in the life cycle assessment of honey considering pollination	6
Quantification of the environmental and economic benefits of the electrification of lawn mowers on the US residential market	6
The average versus marginal debate in LCIA: paradigm regained	6
Guidelines for defining the reference study period and system boundaries in comparative LCA of building renovation and reconstruction	6
Multicriteria optimization for electric vehicles in an arid oil state based on a triple bottom line approach	6
Comparative assessment of life cycle impacts of various plastic waste management scenarios in Johannesburg, South Africa	6
An instrumental value-based framework for assessing the damages of abiotic resources use in life cycle assessment	6
Applying an iterative prospective LCA approach to emerging wood-based technologies: three German case studies	6
Assessing decarbonization pathways of China’s heavy-duty trucks in a well-to-wheels perspective	6
A proposed framework to develop nutrient profiling algorithms for assessments of sustainable food: the metrics and their assumptions matter	6
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting	6
A scalable and spatiotemporally resolved agricultural life cycle assessment of California almonds	6
Assessing overfishing based on the distance-to-target approach	6
Internalisation of environmental costs of decentralised nitrogen fertilisers production	6
Status and prospects of life cycle assessments and carbon and water footprinting studies in South Africa	6
Life cycle-based dashboard for circular agri-food sector	6
Sustainability improvement in complex systems composed of products and services	6
Development of integrated oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB)-based dissolving pulp and furfural production: a consequential LCA approach	6
Regionalized phosphorus fate factors for freshwater eutrophication in Bahia, Brazil: an analysis of spatial and temporal variability	6
Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment	6
Reducing the carbon and water footprints of Brazilian green coconut	6
Product environmental footprint of New Zealand leather production	5
Recommending a new building structure to alleviate environmental impact in tropical climates: increasing the use of wood in construction	5
Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil	5
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network	5
The role of digital technologies for the LCA empowerment towards circular economy goals: a scenario analysis for the agri-food system	5
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products	5
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal	5
Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites	5
What are the main environmental impacts and products contributing to the biodiversity footprint of EU consumption? A comparison of life cycle impact assessment methods and models	5
A climate goal–based, multicriteria method for system evaluation in life cycle assessment	5
A study of social well-being among university students	5
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and quantitative risk assessment (QRA) to address model uncertainties: defining a landfill reference case under varying environmental and engineering conditions	5
Loss of mineral resource value in LCA: application of the JRC-LCI method to multiple case studies combined with inaccessibility and value-based impact assessment	5
Linking land use inventories to biodiversity impact assessment methods	5
Integration of consumer preferences into dynamic life cycle assessment for the sharing economy: methodology and case study for shared mobility	5
Prototypes for automating product system model assembly	5
Life cycle assessment of peat for growing media and evaluation of the suitability of using the Product Environmental Footprint methodology for peat	5
The population equivalent as a novel approach for life cycle assessment of cities and inter-city comparisons	5
Evaluation and improvement of the greenness of plasma spraying through life cycle assessment and grey relational analysis	5
Revising regionalized water scarcity characterization factors for selected watersheds along the hyper-arid Peruvian coast using the AWARE method	5
Characterizing country-specific human and ecosystem health impact and damage cost of agricultural pesticides: the case for Thailand	5
Environmental impact assessment of aluminum electrolytic capacitors in a product family from the manufacturer’s perspective	4
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage	4
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting	4
Unveiling the social performance of selected agri-food chains in Costa Rica: the case of green coffee, raw milk and leafy vegetables	4
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?	4
Participatory approach for pertinent impact subcategory identification: Local community	4