International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Article	Citations
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives	185
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity	151
Characterization factors for freshwater ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals	97
Mitigating carbon emissions in the taxi service industry: a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of batteries for electric taxis and identification of a greener vehicle fleet	90
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections	74
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco	73
Is laser-induced graphene (LIG) environmentally sustainable? Laboratory-scale life cycle assessment of LIG from petroleum- and bio-derived precursors	73
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges	63
Environmental impact of rocoto chili pepper production: integrated assessment of yield, bioactive composition, and environmental footprint	60
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	57
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	57
From corporate greenhouse gas inventories to design-relevant LCAs: an integrated framework for industrial decarbonization	52
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community	49
How differentiating design strategies across building components lead to maximum reduction of adverse environmental impacts	48
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells	48
Mapping the landscape of life cycle sustainability assessments in Canadian agri-food systems: food commodity trends, gaps, and pathways to net-zero	45
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification	45
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage	45
Social organizational life cycle assessment of wire arc additive manufacturing: a case study of a Belgian company	45
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	42
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment	40
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems	37
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment	36
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization	35
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production	34

What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?	34
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting	33
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank	33
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network	32
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges	32
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop	32
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products	32
A utility-based framework for avoided emissions credit-allocation in product reuse	31
Methodological strategies for social life cycle assessment of an emerging technology: a case study on circular flexible plastic packaging	31
Environmental impact of mezcal production: assessing bagasse valorization and vinasse treatment for a circular economy approach	29
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects	28
Life cycle and environmental impact evaluation of polylactic acid (PLA) production in Ecuador	26
Life cycle assessment of printed circuit boards recycling from waste mobile phones	26
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review	25
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production	25
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)	25
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability	25
A comparison of the life cycle analysis (LCA) models used to determine the carbon intensity of biofuels, biojet/Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)	24
Claiming-based allocation for waste-to-energy in district heating	24
From food loss and waste to feed: a systematic review of life cycle perspectives in livestock systems	24
Combining nutritional value with environmental impact: a novel approach to nutritional life cycle assessment	24
Towards AI-augmented sustainability assessments: integrating large language models in the case of product social life cycle assessment	24
Dissipation-based life cycle impact assessment of mineral resource use—a review, case study, and implications for the product environmental footprint	23
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets	23
Advancing social sustainability of battery: developing social product category rules - Goal and Scope	23
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity	23
Social-LCA providing new insights and learnings for social responsibility—case pulp and paper industry	22
Correction to: Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach	22
Decarbonisation Index (DCI): an LCA-based key performance indicator for the automotive industry	22
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	22
Life cycle assessment of reduce, recycling and final treatment of plastic primary food packaging in Norway using a system expansion with multiple functions scope	22
Identifying uncertainty in the global warming impacts of biomaterials: an analysis of biosuccinic acid	21
Life cycle assessment of an upcoming nuclear power plant decommissioning: the Fessenheim case study from public data	21
Digital technologies and circularity: trade-offs in the development of life cycle assessment	21
Visualisation of building life cycle assessment results using 3D business intelligence dashboards	21
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research	20
Design of a nutrient profiling model for life cycle assessment of “superfoods” to address nutritional deficiencies and enhance environmental protection in Spain	20
Evaluation of design options for green product development: a combined Cuckoo search and life cycle assessment approach	20
LCA to evaluate the environmental opportunity cost of biological performances in finfish farming	20
Response to: how to fit regionalized characterization factors in matrix-based LCA?	20
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review	19
Environmental impacts and improvement implications for industrial meatballs manufacturing: scenario in a developing country	19
Comparative life cycle assessment of railway subballast layer with natural and coal overburden aggregates in India	19
A carbon footprint of drinking water pipes in Tokyo: exploring the neglected use phase	19
Life cycle–based assessment methods for circular economy strategies in the agri-food sector	19
Attribution of Global Warming Potential impacts in a multifunctional metals industry system using different system expansion and allocation methodologies	19
Exploring the use phase social impacts of smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning control systems: A scoping review	19
Correction: A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment	19
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances	18
Correction: Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	18

A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)	18
Life cycle assessment of bioethanol production from banana, potato, and papaya waste	18
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel	18
Correction: Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites	18
Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of technology systems at different stages of development	18
Social hotspots in the automotive industry’s aluminum value chains—combining primary and generic data	18
Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research	18
Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units	18
The social life cycle assessment of products and organizations—methodological developments and implementations	18
Torrefied plastic-fiber fuel pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels — a case study life cycle assessment for Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA	18
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?	17
A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment	17
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers	17
Potential impact of abiotic resource use considering country-specific supply chain: consumption-based characterization and normalization utilizing a multi-regional input–output model	17
In defense of the avocado: a life cycle perspective	17
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA	17
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity	16
Rethinking social life cycle assessment for agricultural systems: insights using the pig value chain in the Republic of Ireland as a case study	16
The basket-of-functions approach applied to compare the climate aspects of high-quality mechanical recycling and downcycling of plastics	16
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach	16
Life cycle assessment of gas-based EAF steel production: environmental impacts and strategies for footprint reduction	16
Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project	16
From analysis-LCA to message-LCA: a lost cause?	16
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production	16
Development of an LCA-based tool to assess the environmental sustainability level of cosmetics products	16
Life cycle assessment of offshore low-head pumped hydro storage and its comparison with other energy storage technologies	16
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting	16
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones	15
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment	15
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis	15
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing	15
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal	15
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of heavy machinery manufacturing: a case study in Türkiye	15
Environmental assessment of jalapeño pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivation using the LCA methodology: comparison between conventional open field and aeroponic production	15
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review	15
Integrating the Job Demands–Resources Model into social LCA: the JD-R tool for buffering harmful working conditions	15
ISO 14075 and social sustainability: balancing organizational and product approaches in Social Life Cycle Assessment	15
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	15
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon	14
Employee mobility and service-related management in the carbon footprint of services—German case studies	14
Ex ante life cycle assessment of bauxite residue vitrification technology	14
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry	14
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors	14
Balancing the green carbon cycle — Biogenic carbon within life cycle assessment	14
Towards a non-speciesist social life cycle assessment	14
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and machine learning for sustainable designs: a case study on protective layers made of mineral-bonded fiber-reinforced composites	14
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains	14
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts	13
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility	13
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases	13
Life cycle assessment of a marine biorefinery producing protein, bioactives and polymeric packaging material	13
Avocado production in different biomes throughout Peru: do differing cultivation practices translate into differences in environmental impacts?	13
Environmental impact analysis of molded pulp cups based on different LCA tools	13
Replacing location-based electricity consumption with market-based residual mixes in background data to avoid possible double counting: a quantitative analysis of effects and challenges	13
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment	13
Life cycle assessment of insect farming: a review	13
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment	13
Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review	13
Profiling employability skills for life cycle professionals amid the circular and digital economy	13
Including biochar’s soil effects in lifecycle assessment: application to a practice-oriented case study in Aguascalientes, Mexico	13
From static to dynamic: Reviewing the application and potential of dynamic LCA to bio-based systems	13
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling	13
How does the energy transition reshape ecodesign of automotive components in battery electric vehicles? retrospective vs. prospective life cycle assessment	13
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context	12
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) initiative	12
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting	12
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production	12
Process simulation-based life cycle assessment of the six-step Cu-Cl Cycle of green hydrogen generation and comparative analysis with other Cu-Cl cycles	12
Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan	12
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products	12
Recycling and reusing a robust solution, or a utopia for lowering the greenhouse gas emissions of buildings? The case of Denmark	12
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies	12
Meta-analysis of life cycle assessments for Li-ion batteries production emissions	12
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study	11
Grave without death? a plea for a more accurate wording of study scopes	11
The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project	11
Correction: Dynamic ELCC assessment of hospital building: contrast assembled interior decoration with traditional interior decoration	11
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel	11
Correction to: Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	11
Policy implications of time-differentiated climate change analysis in life cycle assessment of building elements in Aotearoa New Zealand	11

Nutrient substitution for secondary fertilizer: Is current practice comprehensive enough? A review to reveal the LCA methodological challenges	11
Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study	11
Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil	11
Blockchain technology and Social Life Cycle Assessment: synergies and implications	10
Correction: Environmental impacts of battery electric light-duty vehicles using a dynamic life cycle assessment for qatar’s transport system (2022 to 2050)	10
Partitioning product footprint changes into yield and environmental improvement effects: toward life cycle assessment of agricultural system transitions	10
A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value	10
Sustainability results must be contextualized for improved communication	10
Assessing the potential human health impacts of freshwater consumption: considering inequalities in water availability to assess the consequences of domestic water deprivation	10
Correction: Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA	10
Life cycle assessment of Seed-to-Cup specialty coffee cultivated by smallholders in Yemen	10
Life cycle assessment of peat for growing media and evaluation of the suitability of using the Product Environmental Footprint methodology for peat	10
Ionizing radiation potential in life cycle impact assessment: broadening the assessment through inclusion of radioactive decay products	10
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 systems	10
Adapting social life cycle assessment stakeholder categories and impact subcategories for informal economic sectors: insights from fish farming in Ghana	10
Correction: Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	10
Author Correction to: Evaluating the environmental impact of debit card payments	10
Prospective LCA to support the agri-food sector’s transition towards sustainability—89th LCA discussion forum conference report	10
Social performance and impact assessment of an autonomous system in the meat processing sector	10
Is small or big solar better for the environment? Comparative life cycle assessment of solar photovoltaic rooftop vs. ground-mounted systems	10
Beyond nutrients: advancing nutritional Life Cycle Assessment towards food context and health effects	10
Towards a method for poverty reduction potential in social life cycle assessment with application to the cobalt supply chain	10
Evaluating the environmental performance of mezcal production in Michoacán, México: A life cycle assessment approach	9
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)	9
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of leather-like materials from mycelium: Indonesian case study	9
Meta-analysis of the greenhouse gases emissions of nuclear electricity generation: learnings for process-based LCA	9
Life cycle assessment of ICT in higher education: a comparison between desktop and single-board computers	9
A parametric life-cycle model for assessing environmental impacts of 4G and 5G cellular base stations	9
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cylindrical sulfide-based solid-state batteries	9
Sustainable management in the slow fashion industry: carbon footprint of an Italian brand	9
Life cycle assessment of hemp-based milk alternative production in Lower Saxony, Germany, based on a material flow analysis of a pilot scale	9
Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment	9
Guidelines on the selection and inventory of social life cycle assessment indicators: a case study on flexible plastic packaging in the European circular economy	9
Assessing the circularity and sustainability of circular carpets — a demonstration of circular life cycle sustainability assessment	9
Life cycle impact assessment framework for assessing physical effects on biota of marine microplastics emissions	9
Life cycle assessment software unveiled: exploring features and functions	9
A comparative and prospective life cycle assessment of agricultural fruit wastes disposal: A case study	9
Life cycle assessment of different strawberry production methods in Germany with a particular focus on plastic emissions	9
Increasing temporal resolution in greenhouse gas accounting of electricity consumption divided into Scopes 2 and 3: case study of Germany	9
Life cycle assessment of Chlorination–Electrolysis and conventional aluminum production: environmental insights from low-grade bauxite utilization	9
Prosperdyn—a tool to describe dynamic transitions in prospective life cycle assessment	9
Identifying influencing physical and environmental parameters on fate and characterization factors for microplastic emissions in the marine environment	8
Evaluating the Circular Footprint Formula (CFF) in the environmental assessment of mono-material carpets recycling: a case study approach	8
Correction to: Including GHG emissions from mangrove forests LULUC in LCA: a case study on shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam	8
Material flow analysis and life cycle assessment of chemical recycling of the polyethylene-aluminium fraction from used beverage cartons: effects of methodological choices in LCA	8
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of iodine production from caliche ore in Chile	8
Capital goods in life cycle inventory of products: a global systematic review and future research agenda	8
Choosing reference land use for carbon and biodiversity footprints	8
Comparative life cycle assessment of four clean coal power generation technologies in Anhui province, China	8
Prospective LCA of future pathways for used cooking oil valorisation: advancing renewable energy and sustainable materials	8
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical and clinical packaging required for medication administration practices	8
Life cycle assessment of importing canned tuna into Aruba through different supply chains, in varying can sizes and in oils, brine or tomato sauce	8
Review of carbon emissions offsetting guidelines using instructional criteria	8
Examining life cycle impacts of metropolitan food system scenarios: comparing top-down and bottom-up LCA modeling approaches	8
Product environmental footprint of New Zealand leather production	8
Life cycle assessment of hospital bed assembly manufacturing: a baseline study of environmental impacts	8
Agrifood systems transformation for climate action and environmental improvements, with co-benefits for food security and nutrition	8
Complacency in the quantification and reporting of climate impacts as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions	8
Methods for quantifying and incorporating biomass carbon sequestration by trees in life cycle assessments	7
Environmental and social life cycle assessment of milk—the effect of leguminous feed crops in dairy cow diets on sustainability	7
Meta-analysis of the life cycle of small-sized power converters: a systematic review	7
2022 SETAC Europe award for lifetime achievement in life cycle assessment	7
Meat versus microbial protein‒a life cycle assessment of present-day value chains	7
Environmental impact of biodegradable and non-biodegradable agricultural mulch film: A case study for Nordic conditions	7
A comparison of circular business models using life cycle assessment, focusing on clothing retail, distribution and use	7
Bibliometric analysis and visualisation of research on life cycle assessment in Africa (1992–2022)	7
Correction: Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review	7
Assessing climate impacts of agroforestry system in LCA: case study in Zambia	7
Publisher Correction: Life cycle assessment and multi-criteria decision-making for sustainable building parts: criteria, methods, and application	7
Life cycle assessment of coke production based on real plant and model-optimised data	7
Life cycle environmental impact assessment of lab-scale preparation of porous alumina pellets as substrate for hydrogen separation metal layer-based membranes	7
Life cycle impacts assessment of two gold extraction systems in Colombia: open-pit and alluvial mining	7
Life cycle assessment of cement industry with CO2 capture and purification: environmental feasibility and synergistic emission reduction	7
Testing the use of a large language model (LLM) for performing data quality assessment	7
Sustainable leafy greens: a techno-economic and environmental assessment of baby rocket production in a photovoltaic-powered growth room	7
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of a wildlife park in northern Germany	7
Cooling load reduction strategies for community worship place towards attaining sustainability: a life cycle cost perspective	7
Life cycle assessment: from industry to policy to politics	7
Life cycle assessment for primary gallium production at industrial-scale	7
Environmental and socio-economic analysis of the Ivorian market vegetables suburban systems in the context of an agroecological transition	7
Comparative study on environmental and economic assessment of straw heating across administrative areas scale of rural China	7
Transforming the feeding regime towards low-input increases the environmental impact of organic milk production on a case study farm in central germany	7
Systematising the LCA approaches’ soup: a framework based on text mining	7
Factors contributing to the relevance and continuity of life cycle assessment networks	7
Modelling greenhouse gas emissions of land use and land-use change using spatially explicit land conversion data for French crops	7
Assessing social and energy vulnerabilities through a novel S-LCA approach: A rural case study in Colombia’s Pacific region	7
Nitrogen, carbon, and water scarcity footprints of Brassica oleracea production	6
Benefits and impacts of offshore wind farms on benthic marine biodiversity in a life cycle assessment context	6
Chain of custody modelling in carbon footprinting and life cycle assessment	6
Midpoint characterization factors to assess impacts of turbine water use from hydropower production	6
Expanding the dynamic climate change impact model for dynamic LCA based on the climate science	6
From waste to circularity: the potential of different treatments of poultry manure and forestry residues in a hot-spot production region in Portugal	6
Application of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) in the gold mining sector: a systematic review	6
Hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment of shared e-scooters: utilization rate as a key driver of sustainability performance	6
Constraints in supply of wild fish: empirical evidence and substitution effects	6