OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 12. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	57
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	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
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
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review	25
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
A comparison of the life cycle analysis (LCA) models used to determine the carbon intensity of biofuels, biojet/Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)	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
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
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review	19
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
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances	18
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
Potential impact of abiotic resource use considering country-specific supply chain: consumption-based characterization and normalization utilizing a multi-regional input–output model	17
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?	17
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA	17
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers	17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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