International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Article	Citations
Using life cycle assessment to achieve a circular economy	104
Comparative LCA of concrete with recycled aggregates: a circular economy mindset in Europe	84
Temporal issues in life cycle assessment—a systematic review	68
The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades	68
Upscaling methods used in ex ante life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: a review	64
Fishmeal partial substitution within aquafeed formulations: life cycle assessment of four alternative protein sources	62
Plastic or glass: a new environmental assessment with a marine litter indicator for the comparison of pasteurized milk bottles	60
Exposure and toxicity characterization of chemical emissions and chemicals in products: global recommendations and implementation in USEtox	55
Life cycle assessment and circularity indicators	53
Environmental impacts associated with the production, use, and end-of-life of a woollen garment	53
Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production	51
Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment	51
Integrating life cycle assessment and life cycle cost: a review of environmental-economic studies	47
Making the use of scenarios in LCA easier: the superstructure approach	41
Using Social Life Cycle Assessment to analyze the contribution of products to the Sustainable Development Goals: a case study in the textile sector	39
Carbon footprint of plastic from biomass and recycled feedstock: methodological insights	39
Allocation in life cycle assessment of lignin	38
Life cycle impact assessment of microplastics as one component of marine plastic debris	37
A life cycle environmental sustainability analysis of microbial protein production via power-to-food approaches	36
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research	35
Implementing the guidelines for social life cycle assessment: past, present, and future	34
The future of ecolabels	34
Advances in application of machine learning to life cycle assessment: a literature review	33
Life cycle assessment of decarbonization options—towards scientifically robust carbon neutrality	33
Representing crop rotations in life cycle assessment: a review of legume LCA studies	33

In pursuit of environmentally friendly straws: a comparative life cycle assessment of five straw material options in South Africa	33
Digital transformation—life cycle assessment of digital services, multifunctional devices and cloud computing	32
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	31
Applying multi-criteria decision-making on alternatives for earth-retaining walls: LCA, LCC, and S-LCA	29
Could the recycled yarns substitute for the virgin cotton yarns: a comparative LCA	29
Environmental benchmarks for buildings: a critical literature review	29
Life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biochar produced from forest residues using portable systems	28
The environmental attributes of wood fiber composites with bio-based or petroleum-based plastics	28
Future scenarios and life cycle assessment: systematic review and recommendations	28
An economic assessment framework for decommissioning of offshore wind farms using a cost breakdown structure	27
Environmental costs of buildings: monetary valuation of ecological indicators for the building industry	26
Coffee biowaste valorization within circular economy: an evaluation method of spent coffee grounds potentials for mortar production	26
A crustal scarcity indicator for long-term global elemental resource assessment in LCA	26
Normalization and weighting: the open challenge in LCA	26
Carbon and water footprint of coffee consumed in Finland—life cycle assessment	26
End-of-life modelling of buildings to support more informed decisions towards achieving circular economy targets	26
Ways to get work done: a review and systematisation of simplification practices in the LCA literature	25
Reviewing environmental life cycle impacts of biobased polymers: current trends and methodological challenges	25
Life cycle assessment applying planetary and regional boundaries to the process level: a model case study	23
Environmental analysis along the supply chain of dark, milk and white chocolate: a life cycle comparison	23
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cobalt sulfate production derived from a nickel–copper–cobalt mine in China	23
Life cycle assessment of Portland cement production in Myanmar	23
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)	23
Quantitative study of life cycle carbon emissions from 7 timber buildings in China	23
Using life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental benefit of upcycling vine shoots as fillers in biocomposite packaging materials	22
Why statistical testing and confidence intervals should not be used in comparative life cycle assessments based on Monte Carlo simulations	22
Life cycle assessment of ammonia synthesis in China	22
Social life cycle assessment of Swedish organic and conventional pork production	22
Towards social life cycle assessment of mobility services: systematic literature review and the way forward	22
Environmental footprint of regular and intensive inpatient care in a large US hospital	22
Towards a more environmentally sustainable production of graphene-based materials	21
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach	21
Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment	21
Influence of technical and electrical equipment in life cycle assessments of buildings: case of a laboratory and research building	21
Comparative environmental life cycle assessment of several powertrain types for cars and buses in France for two driving cycles: “worldwide harmonized light vehicle test procedure” cycle and urban cyc	21
Increasing the lifetime of products by nanomaterial inclusions—life cycle energy implications	21
Correction to: ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level	21
Review and expert survey of allocation methods used in life cycle assessment of milk and beef	20
Life cycle assessment of behind-the-meter Bitcoin mining at US power plant	20
Sustainability Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise handprint methodological framework	20
An approach to achieve overall farm feed efficiency in pig production: environmental evaluation through individual life cycle assessment	19
Challenges with product environmental footprint: a systematic review	19
Combining circular and LCA indicators for the early design of urban projects	19
Global scale life cycle environmental impacts of single- and multi-walled carbon nanotube synthesis processes	19
Investigating the management challenges of the EU Ecolabel through multi-stakeholder surveys	19
Top-down characterization of resource use in LCA: from problem definition of resource use to operational characterization factors for dissipation of elements to the environment	19
Capability of social life cycle assessment for analyzing the artisanal small-scale gold mining sector—case study in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil	18
A meta-analysis of the life cycle greenhouse gas balances of microalgae biodiesel	18
Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis	18
Environmental payback periods of reusable alternatives to single-use plastic kitchenware products	17

Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater	17
Primary data priorities for the life cycle inventory of construction products: focus on foreground processes	17
Prospective sustainability assessment: the case of wood in automotive applications	17
Environmental impact of high-value gold scrap recycling	17
Comparison of life cycle assessment between lyocell fiber and viscose fiber in China	17
Environmental performance scenarios in the production of hollow glass containers for food packaging: an LCA approach	17
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity	17
When to replace a product to decrease environmental impact?—a consequential LCA framework and case study on car replacement	17
The environmental footprint of electric vehicle battery packs during the production and use phases with different functional units	17
Environmental life cycle assessment of yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) production for human consumption in Austria – a comparison of mealworm and broiler as protein source	16
Teaching life cycle assessment in higher education	16
A framework for implementing holistic and integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of regional bioeconomy	16
Functional unit influence on building life cycle assessment	16
Life cycle assessment of bacterial cellulose production	16
The role of electricity mix and production efficiency improvements on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of building components and future refurbishment measures	15
Is mainstream LCA linear?	15
Freight transport in the context of industrial ecology and sustainability: evaluation of uni- and multi-modality scenarios via life cycle assessment	15
A longitudinal literature review of life cycle costing applied to urban agriculture	15
Perceived uncertainties of characterization in LCA: a survey	15
Life cycle inventory and impact assessment for an asphalt pavement road construction—a case study in Brazil	15
Step-by-step social life cycle assessment framework: a participatory approach for the identification and prioritization of impact subcategories applied to mobility scenarios	15
Comparative environmental and social life cycle assessments of off-shore aquaculture rafts made in ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC)	15
Selecting the best product alternative in a sea of uncertainty	15
A framework for environmental decision support in cities incorporating organizational LCA	15
Life cycle assessment of peach transportation considering trade-off between food loss and environmental impact	14
Environmental and social life cycle assessment of growing media for urban rooftop farming	14
The Bioeconomy in emerging economies: a study of the critical success factors based on Life Cycle Assessment and Delphi and Fuzzy-Delphi methods	14
Carbon footprint and embodied energy of a wind turbine blade—a case study	14
Bringing nutrition and life cycle assessment together (nutritional LCA): opportunities and risks	14
Circular economy paths in the olive oil industry: a Life Cycle Assessment look into environmental performance and benefits	14
Life cycle sustainability assessment analysis of different concrete construction techniques for residential building in Malaysia	14
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	14
Applying three pillar indicator assessments on alternative floor systems: life cycle study	14
The common understanding of simplification approaches in published LCA studies—a review and mapping	14
Freshwater eutrophication: spatially explicit fate factors for nitrogen and phosphorus emissions at the global scale	14
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries for sustainable design and manufacturing	14
Sustainable packaging: an evaluation of crates for food through a life cycle approach	13
Integrating regionalized Brazilian land use change datasets into the ecoinvent database: new data, premises and uncertainties have large effects in the results	13
A survey of Life Cycle Inventory database implementations and architectures, and recommendations for new database initiatives	13
Environmental assessment of energy-driven biorefineries: the case of the coffee cut-stems (CCS) in Colombia	13
Allocation in recycling of composites - the case of life cycle assessment of products from carbon fiber composites	13
Toxicity impacts in the environmental footprint method: calculation principles	13
Applying social life cycle assessment in the early stages of a project development — an example from the mining sector	13
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy	13
Environmental assessment of copper production in Europe: an LCA case study from Sweden conducted using two conventional software-database setups	13
Life cycle environmental and economic assessment of industrial symbiosis networks: a review of the past decade of models and computational methods through a multi-level analysis lens	12
Sustainable built environment: transition towards a net zero carbon built environment	12
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel	12
Costructal law, exergy analysis and life cycle energy sustainability assessment: an expanded framework applied to a boiler	12
Modeling life-cycle social assessment in sustainable pavement management at project level	12
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack	12
Life cycle inventory data for the Italian agri-food sector: background, sources and methodological aspects	11
Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment: an approach for identification of relevant subcategories for wine production in Italy	11
Mineral resource dissipation in life cycle inventories	11
Environmental assessment of a disruptive innovation: comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessments of carbon-reinforced concrete building component	11
Exploring sustainability potentials in vineyards through LCA? Evidence from farming practices in South Africa	11
Modelling of different circular end-of-use scenarios for smartphones	11
Critical analysis of life cycle inventory datasets for organic crop production systems	11
The assessment of positive impacts in LCA of products	11
Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution	11
Strategies to improve building environmental and economic performance: an exploratory study on 37 residential building scenarios	11
Are large-scale dams environmentally detrimental? Life-cycle environmental consequences of mega-hydropower plants in Myanmar	11
Upcycling shipping containers as building components: an environmental impact assessment	11
Implications of LCA and LCIA choices on interpretation of results and on decision support	11
How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy	11
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	11
lca_algebraic: a library bringing symbolic calculus to LCA for comprehensive sensitivity analysis	10
Life cycle assessment of a hot-pressing machine to manufacture particleboards: hotspots, environmental indicators, and solutions	10
Comparing the incomparable? A review of methodical aspects in the sustainability assessment of wood in vehicles	10
A national-level LCA of a water supply system in a Mediterranean semi-arid climate—Israel as a case study	10
Life cycle assessment of manufacturing cellulose nanofibril-reinforced chitosan composite films for packaging applications	10
Challenges in using soil carbon modelling in LCA of agricultural products—the devil is in the detail	10
Sharing is caring - the importance of capital goods when assessing environmental impacts from private and shared laundry systems in Sweden	10
Environmental life cycle assessment for improved management of agri-food companies: the case of organic whole-grain durum wheat pasta in Sicily	10
Life cycle assessment and process simulation of prospective battery-grade cobalt sulfate production from Co-Au ores in Finland	10
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	10
Cup plant, an alternative to conventional silage from a LCA perspective	10
Regionalized LCA in practice: the need for a universal shapefile to match LCI and LCIA	10
Measuring raw-material criticality of product systems through an economic product importance indicator: a case study of battery-electric vehicles	10
Understanding variability in greenhouse gas emission estimates of smallholder dairy farms in Indonesia	10

Life-cycle assessment of redwood lumber products in the US	10
Toward a framework for selecting indicators of measuring sustainability and circular economy in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review	10
Life cycle environmental and economic impact of a food waste recycling-farming system: a case study of organic vegetable farming in Japan	9
Improving environmental performance in wine production by life cycle assessment: case of Lebanese wine	9
Regionalized environmental impacts of construction machinery	9
Carbon footprint of transhumant sheep farms: accounting for natural baseline emissions in Mediterranean systems	9
Life cycle assessment of aquaculture bivalve shellfish production — a critical review of methodological trends	9
Distribution of environmental performance in life cycle assessments—implications for environmental benchmarking	9
Distance-to-target weighting in LCA—A matter of perspective	9
Life cycle assessment of wind farms in Ethiopia	9
Performance and environmental accounting of nutrient cycling models to estimate nitrogen emissions in agriculture and their sensitivity in life cycle assessment	9
Implementing environmental labelling of food products in France	9
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting	9
An improved resource midpoint characterization method for supply risk of resources: integrated assessment of Li-ion batteries	9
Assessing life cycle impacts from changes in agricultural practices of crop production	9
Variance-based global sensitivity analysis and beyond in life cycle assessment: an application to geothermal heating networks	9
Integration of life cycle assessment into a decision support system for selecting sustainable road asphalt pavement mixtures prepared with waste	9
A modular environmental and economic assessment applied to the production of Hermetia illucens larvae as a protein source for food and feed	9
Comparison of carbon footprint and water scarcity footprint of milk protein produced by cellular agriculture and the dairy industry	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
No simple menu for sustainable food production and consumption	9
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical packaging	9
Social life cycle assessment of an innovative industrial wastewater treatment plant	9
Development of a method for estimating product-specific leakage propensity and its inclusion into the life cycle management of plastic products	8
Environmental impact evaluation of co-products: decision-aid tool for allocation in LCA	8
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets	8
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceuticals: the ciprofloxacin hydrochloride case	8
A research perspective towards a more complete biodiversity footprint: a report from the World Biodiversity Forum	8
Life Cycle Assessment in mineral processing – a review of the role of flotation	8
Environmental Product Declarations for plants and soils: how to quantify carbon uptake in landscape design and construction?	8
Including maintenance in life cycle assessment of road and rail infrastructure—a literature review	8
Life cycle assessment during packaging of market-sized seabass and meagre: necessary adaptations toward GHG neutrality	8
Water scarcity in Brazil: part 2—uncertainty assessment in regionalized characterization factors	8
Marine plastics in LCA: current status and MarILCA’s contributions	8
Environmental impacts of household goods in Europe: a process-based life cycle assessment model to assess consumption footprint	8
Normalization in LCA: how to ensure consistency?	8
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel	8
Application of holistic and integrated LCSA: Case study on laminated veneer lumber production in Central Germany	8
Influence of methodological choices on maintenance and replacement in building LCA	8
Environmental and techno-economic analyses of bio-jet fuel produced from jatropha and castor oilseeds in China	8
A novel social life cycle assessment method for determining workers’ human development: a case study of the sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil	7
Cause-effect chains in S-LCA based on DPSIR framework using Markov healthcare model: an application to “working hours” in Canada	7
A social panorama within the life cycle thinking and the circular economy: a literature review	7
Estimating quantity and equity of carbon emission from roads based on an improved LCA approach: the case of China	7
Reducing cooling load and lifecycle cost for residential buildings: a case of Lahore, Pakistan	7
Life cycle assessment and life cycle cost of repairing surgical scissors	7
An axiomatic method for goal-dependent allocation in life cycle assessment	7
Life-cycle impact assessment methods for physical energy scarcity: considerations and suggestions	7
Water footprint assessment of lemon and its derivatives in Argentina: a case study in the province of Tucumán	7
Toward more comprehensive environmental impact assessments: interlinked global models of LCIA and IAM applicable to this century	7
A human-centered review of life cycle assessments of bioplastics	7
The environmental consequences of a change in Australian cotton lint production	7
Feasibility analysis for floating offshore wind energy	7
Addressing water quality in water footprinting: current status, methods and limitations	7
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry	7
Social evaluation of municipal solid waste management systems from a life cycle perspective: a systematic literature review	6
A comparative LCA as a tool for evaluating existing best available techniques (BATs) in facing brick manufacturing and more eco-sustainable coating solutions	6
Life-LCA: the first case study of the life cycle impacts of a human being	6
Development of integrated oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB)-based dissolving pulp and furfural production: a consequential LCA approach	6
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?	6
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)	6
Carbon footprint and life cycle costing of maize production in Thailand with temporal and geographical resolutions	6
Method to decompose uncertainties in LCA results into contributing factors	6
Applied properties and life cycle assessment of flexible packaging lamination processes: a comparative study	6
Social organisational LCA for the academic activity of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU	6
Recalculating Australian water scarcity characterisation factors using the AWARE method	6
How to evaluate circularity through an LCA study based on the standards EN 15804 and EN 15978	6
Social Organisational Life Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment: different twins? Correlations from a case study	6
LCA and nutritional assessment of southern Benin market vegetable gardening across the production continuum	6
Prioritizing regionalization to enhance interpretation in consequential life cycle assessment: application to alternative transportation scenarios using partial equilibrium economic modeling	6
Spatial and territorial developments for life cycle assessment applied to urban mobility—case study on Lyon area in France	6
Life cycle assessment including traffic noise: conventional vs. rubberized asphalt	6
Environmental impact assessment of ground source heat pump system for heating and cooling: a case study in China	6
Building an ILCD/EcoSPOLD2–compliant data-reporting template with application to Canadian agri-food LCI data	5
The population equivalent as a novel approach for life cycle assessment of cities and inter-city comparisons	5
Should we neglect cement carbonation in life cycle inventory databases?	5
Application of territorial emission factors with open-access data—a territorial LCA case study of land use for livestock production in Wallonia	5
Environmental co-benefits and trade-offs of climate mitigation strategies applied to net-zero-emission neighbourhoods	5
Social impacts of large-scale hydropower project in Myanmar: a social life cycle assessment of Shweli hydropower dam 1	5
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges	5
How to overcome barriers limiting LCA adoption? The role of a collaborative and multi-stakeholder approach	5
Two-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations in LCA: an innovative approach to guide the choice for the environmentally preferable option	5
A general framework for including biogenic carbon emissions and removals in the life cycle assessments for forestry products	5
Quantification of the environmental and economic benefits of the electrification of lawn mowers on the US residential market	5
Designing hybrid life cycle assessment models based on uncertainty and complexity	5
Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects	5
Comparative sustainability assessment of lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and all-solid-state traction batteries	5
Multifunctional modelling in the life cycle assessment of honey considering pollination	5
Environmental assessment of common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) from a small-scale fishery in Algarve (Portugal)	5
Status and prospects of life cycle assessments and carbon and water footprinting studies in South Africa	5
Life cycle-based dashboard for circular agri-food sector	5
Sustainability improvement in complex systems composed of products and services	5
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin	5
The average versus marginal debate in LCIA: paradigm regained	5