OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 11. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain	109
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections	98
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity	94
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
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	84
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives	83
UM3-LCE3-ISN: a methodology for multi-level life cycle environmental and economic evaluation of industrial symbiosis networks	65
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco	62
Making the use of scenarios in LCA easier: the superstructure approach	61
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	53
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community	51
Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis	43
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges	43
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	42
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage	40
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems	40
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting	39
Unveiling the social performance of selected agri-food chains in Costa Rica: the case of green coffee, raw milk and leafy vegetables	38
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products	37
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack	36
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production	36
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment	36
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank	34
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cobalt sulfate production derived from a nickel–copper–cobalt mine in China	33
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment	32

Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution	31
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?	31
Exergy-aided environmental life cycle assessment of propylene oxide production	29
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production	29
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification	29
Life cycle and environmental impact evaluation of polylactic acid (PLA) production in Ecuador	29
Combining nutritional value with environmental impact: a novel approach to nutritional life cycle assessment	29
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network	29
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability	28
Understanding variability in greenhouse gas emission estimates of smallholder dairy farms in Indonesia	28
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop	28
From food loss and waste to feed: a systematic review of life cycle perspectives in livestock systems	28
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets	28
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects	28
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges	27
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review	27
Correction to: Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance	26
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity	26
Decarbonisation Index (DCI): an LCA-based key performance indicator for the automotive industry	25
LCA to evaluate the environmental opportunity cost of biological performances in finfish farming	25
Correction to: Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach	25
Social-LCA providing new insights and learnings for social responsibility—case pulp and paper industry	24
Identifying uncertainty in the global warming impacts of biomaterials: an analysis of biosuccinic acid	24
Digital technologies and circularity: trade-offs in the development of life cycle assessment	23
Visualisation of building life cycle assessment results using 3D business intelligence dashboards	23
Evaluation of design options for green product development: a combined Cuckoo search and life cycle assessment approach	23
Life cycle assessment and circularity indicators	22
Life cycle assessment of an upcoming nuclear power plant decommissioning: the Fessenheim case study from public data	22
Dissipation-based life cycle impact assessment of mineral resource use—a review, case study, and implications for the product environmental footprint	22
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research	21
Comparative life cycle assessment of railway subballast layer with natural and coal overburden aggregates in India	21
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	21
Social hotspots in the automotive industry’s aluminum value chains—combining primary and generic data	20
Environmental impacts and improvement implications for industrial meatballs manufacturing: scenario in a developing country	20
Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of technology systems at different stages of development	20
Attribution of Global Warming Potential impacts in a multifunctional metals industry system using different system expansion and allocation methodologies	20
Social life cycle assessment of an innovative industrial wastewater treatment plant	20
Correction: A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment	20
Correction: Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	20
Life cycle–based assessment methods for circular economy strategies in the agri-food sector	20
Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach	19
Life cycle assessment of behind-the-meter Bitcoin mining at US power plant	19
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel	18
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)	18
Exploring the use phase social impacts of smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning control systems: A scoping review	18
Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project	17
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers	17
Design of a nutrient profiling model for life cycle assessment of “superfoods” to address nutritional deficiencies and enhance environmental protection in Spain	17
Life cycle assessment of bioethanol production from banana, potato, and papaya waste	17
A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment	17

In defense of the avocado: a life cycle perspective	17
Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units	17
Recalculating Australian water scarcity characterisation factors using the AWARE method	17
Torrefied plastic-fiber fuel pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels — a case study life cycle assessment for Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA	17
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review	17
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances	16
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?	16
Development of an LCA-based tool to assess the environmental sustainability level of cosmetics products	16
Life cycle assessment of gas-based EAF steel production: environmental impacts and strategies for footprint reduction	16
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting	16
From analysis-LCA to message-LCA: a lost cause?	16
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones	15
Modeling spatially resolved characterization factors for eutrophication potential in life cycle assessment	15
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach	15
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA	15
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors	15
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin	15
Life cycle assessment including traffic noise: conventional vs. rubberized asphalt	15
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity	15
Electric and biomethane-fuelled urban buses: comparison of environmental performance of different powertrains	15
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing	15
Correction to: Waste is not a service	15
Coffee biowaste valorization within circular economy: an evaluation method of spent coffee grounds potentials for mortar production	15
Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research	15
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment	15
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production	15
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis	15
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and machine learning for sustainable designs: a case study on protective layers made of mineral-bonded fiber-reinforced composites	15
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal	14
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon	14
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	14
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of heavy machinery manufacturing: a case study in Türkiye	14
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review	14
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry	14
Life-cycle assessment of redwood lumber products in the US	13
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts	13
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains	13
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases	13
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment	13
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility	13
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment	13
Life cycle management in bakeries: a proposed roadmap towards sustainability	13
Employee mobility and service-related management in the carbon footprint of services—German case studies	13
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
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	12
Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment	12
Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review	12
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting	12
Life cycle assessment of a marine biorefinery producing protein, bioactives and polymeric packaging material	12
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy	12
Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan	12
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies	12
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling	12
Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain	12
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study	12
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products	11
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach	11
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel	11
A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value	11
Towards a method for poverty reduction potential in social life cycle assessment with application to the cobalt supply chain	11
The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project	11
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	11
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context	11
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	11
Correction: Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	11
Publisher Correction to: Life‑LCA: the first case study of the life cycle impacts of a human being	11
Two-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations in LCA: an innovative approach to guide the choice for the environmentally preferable option	11
Policy implications of time-differentiated climate change analysis in life cycle assessment of building elements in Aotearoa New Zealand	11
A social panorama within the life cycle thinking and the circular economy: a literature review	11
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production	11
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	11
An axiomatic method for goal-dependent allocation in life cycle assessment	11
Correction to: Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	11
Ionizing radiation potential in life cycle impact assessment: broadening the assessment through inclusion of radioactive decay products	11
Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil	11