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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Using life cycle assessment to achieve a circular economy	106
Comparative LCA of concrete with recycled aggregates: a circular economy mindset in Europe	86
The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades	75
Temporal issues in life cycle assessment—a systematic review	70
Upscaling methods used in ex ante life cycle assessment of emerging technologies: a review	66
Fishmeal partial substitution within aquafeed formulations: life cycle assessment of four alternative protein sources	65
Plastic or glass: a new environmental assessment with a marine litter indicator for the comparison of pasteurized milk bottles	61
Life cycle assessment and circularity indicators	57
Exposure and toxicity characterization of chemical emissions and chemicals in products: global recommendations and implementation in USEtox	56
Environmental impacts associated with the production, use, and end-of-life of a woollen garment	54
Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment	54
Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production	54
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	44
Allocation in life cycle assessment of lignin	39
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
A life cycle environmental sustainability analysis of microbial protein production via power-to-food approaches	37
Life cycle impact assessment of microplastics as one component of marine plastic debris	37
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research	36
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	36
In pursuit of environmentally friendly straws: a comparative life cycle assessment of five straw material options in South Africa	36
Life cycle assessment of decarbonization options—towards scientifically robust carbon neutrality	35
Implementing the guidelines for social life cycle assessment: past, present, and future	34
Advances in application of machine learning to life cycle assessment: a literature review	34

Representing crop rotations in life cycle assessment: a review of legume LCA studies	34
Digital transformation—life cycle assessment of digital services, multifunctional devices and cloud computing	33
Future scenarios and life cycle assessment: systematic review and recommendations	33
Applying multi-criteria decision-making on alternatives for earth-retaining walls: LCA, LCC, and S-LCA	32
Could the recycled yarns substitute for the virgin cotton yarns: a comparative LCA	32
Life-cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of biochar produced from forest residues using portable systems	30
Environmental benchmarks for buildings: a critical literature review	29
Environmental costs of buildings: monetary valuation of ecological indicators for the building industry	29
A crustal scarcity indicator for long-term global elemental resource assessment in LCA	29
An economic assessment framework for decommissioning of offshore wind farms using a cost breakdown structure	27
Coffee biowaste valorization within circular economy: an evaluation method of spent coffee grounds potentials for mortar production	27
End-of-life modelling of buildings to support more informed decisions towards achieving circular economy targets	27
Normalization and weighting: the open challenge in LCA	27
Carbon and water footprint of coffee consumed in Finland—life cycle assessment	26
Reviewing environmental life cycle impacts of biobased polymers: current trends and methodological challenges	26
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)	25
Ways to get work done: a review and systematisation of simplification practices in the LCA literature	25
Quantitative study of life cycle carbon emissions from 7 timber buildings in China	25
Life cycle assessment of Portland cement production in Myanmar	25
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cobalt sulfate production derived from a nickel–copper–cobalt mine in China	24
Environmental analysis along the supply chain of dark, milk and white chocolate: a life cycle comparison	24
Social life cycle assessment of Swedish organic and conventional pork production	24
Using life cycle assessment to quantify the environmental benefit of upcycling vine shoots as fillers in biocomposite packaging materials	24
Life cycle assessment applying planetary and regional boundaries to the process level: a model case study	23
Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment	23
Why statistical testing and confidence intervals should not be used in comparative life cycle assessments based on Monte Carlo simulations	23
Global scale life cycle environmental impacts of single- and multi-walled carbon nanotube synthesis processes	22
Towards social life cycle assessment of mobility services: systematic literature review and the way forward	22
Life cycle assessment of behind-the-meter Bitcoin mining at US power plant	22
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	22
Life cycle assessment of ammonia synthesis in China	22
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach	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
Correction to: ReCiPe2016: a harmonised life cycle impact assessment method at midpoint and endpoint level	21
Influence of technical and electrical equipment in life cycle assessments of buildings: case of a laboratory and research building	21
Review and expert survey of allocation methods used in life cycle assessment of milk and beef	21
Increasing the lifetime of products by nanomaterial inclusions—life cycle energy implications	21
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	20
Combining circular and LCA indicators for the early design of urban projects	20
Sustainability Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise handprint methodological framework	20
Capability of social life cycle assessment for analyzing the artisanal small-scale gold mining sector—case study in the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil	20
Investigating the management challenges of the EU Ecolabel through multi-stakeholder surveys	20
Challenges with product environmental footprint: a systematic review	20
Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis	19
An approach to achieve overall farm feed efficiency in pig production: environmental evaluation through individual life cycle assessment	19
Prospective sustainability assessment: the case of wood in automotive applications	18
A framework for implementing holistic and integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of regional bioeconomy	18
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity	18
A meta-analysis of the life cycle greenhouse gas balances of microalgae biodiesel	18

Reducing environmental impacts from garments through best practice garment use and care, using the example of a Merino wool sweater	18
Environmental payback periods of reusable alternatives to single-use plastic kitchenware products	17
Environmental impact of high-value gold scrap recycling	17
Comparison of life cycle assessment between lyocell fiber and viscose fiber in China	17
Comparative environmental and social life cycle assessments of off-shore aquaculture rafts made in ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC)	17
When to replace a product to decrease environmental impact?—a consequential LCA framework and case study on car replacement	17
Step-by-step social life cycle assessment framework: a participatory approach for the identification and prioritization of impact subcategories applied to mobility scenarios	17
Environmental performance scenarios in the production of hollow glass containers for food packaging: an LCA approach	17
Primary data priorities for the life cycle inventory of construction products: focus on foreground processes	17
The environmental footprint of electric vehicle battery packs during the production and use phases with different functional units	17
Functional unit influence on building life cycle assessment	16
Carbon footprint and embodied energy of a wind turbine blade—a case study	16
Life cycle inventory and impact assessment for an asphalt pavement road construction—a case study in Brazil	16
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
Life cycle assessment of bacterial cellulose production	16
Freight transport in the context of industrial ecology and sustainability: evaluation of uni- and multi-modality scenarios via life cycle assessment	16
The common understanding of simplification approaches in published LCA studies—a review and mapping	15
Selecting the best product alternative in a sea of uncertainty	15
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries for sustainable design and manufacturing	15
A longitudinal literature review of life cycle costing applied to urban agriculture	15
The role of electricity mix and production efficiency improvements on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of building components and future refurbishment measures	15
Perceived uncertainties of characterization in LCA: a survey	15
Toxicity impacts in the environmental footprint method: calculation principles	15
Applying three pillar indicator assessments on alternative floor systems: life cycle study	15
Freshwater eutrophication: spatially explicit fate factors for nitrogen and phosphorus emissions at the global scale	15
Is mainstream LCA linear?	15
A framework for environmental decision support in cities incorporating organizational LCA	15
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
Environmental assessment of a disruptive innovation: comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessments of carbon-reinforced concrete building component	14
Environmental and social life cycle assessment of growing media for urban rooftop farming	14
Applying social life cycle assessment in the early stages of a project development — an example from the mining sector	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
Life cycle assessment of peach transportation considering trade-off between food loss and environmental impact	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
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel	13
Costructal law, exergy analysis and life cycle energy sustainability assessment: an expanded framework applied to a boiler	13
Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution	13
Sustainable packaging: an evaluation of crates for food through a life cycle approach	13
Modeling life-cycle social assessment in sustainable pavement management at project level	13
Integrating regionalized Brazilian land use change datasets into the ecoinvent database: new data, premises and uncertainties have large effects in the results	13
Environmental assessment of copper production in Europe: an LCA case study from Sweden conducted using two conventional software-database setups	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
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy	13
A survey of Life Cycle Inventory database implementations and architectures, and recommendations for new database initiatives	13
Life cycle inventory data for the Italian agri-food sector: background, sources and methodological aspects	12
Sustainable built environment: transition towards a net zero carbon built environment	12
Implications of LCA and LCIA choices on interpretation of results and on decision support	12
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	12
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
Mineral resource dissipation in life cycle inventories	12
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack	12
Measuring raw-material criticality of product systems through an economic product importance indicator: a case study of battery-electric vehicles	12
Environmental life cycle assessment for improved management of agri-food companies: the case of organic whole-grain durum wheat pasta in Sicily	12
Exploring sustainability potentials in vineyards through LCA? Evidence from farming practices in South Africa	12
Are large-scale dams environmentally detrimental? Life-cycle environmental consequences of mega-hydropower plants in Myanmar	11
Critical analysis of life cycle inventory datasets for organic crop production systems	11
Life cycle assessment and process simulation of prospective battery-grade cobalt sulfate production from Co-Au ores in Finland	11
Toward a framework for selecting indicators of measuring sustainability and circular economy in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review	11
Modelling of different circular end-of-use scenarios for smartphones	11
Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment: an approach for identification of relevant subcategories for wine production in Italy	11
Upcycling shipping containers as building components: an environmental impact assessment	11
How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy	11
Strategies to improve building environmental and economic performance: an exploratory study on 37 residential building scenarios	11
Social life cycle assessment of an innovative industrial wastewater treatment plant	11
Sharing is caring - the importance of capital goods when assessing environmental impacts from private and shared laundry systems in Sweden	11
The assessment of positive impacts in LCA of products	11
Life cycle assessment of manufacturing cellulose nanofibril-reinforced chitosan composite films for packaging applications	11