International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mitigating carbon emissions in the taxi service industry: a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of batteries for electric taxis and identification of a greener vehicle fleet219
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity118
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations116
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community88
Characterization factors for freshwater ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals82
From corporate greenhouse gas inventories to design-relevant LCAs: an integrated framework for industrial decarbonization80
Parametrization to solve the issue of correlation in uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment77
Assessing biodiversity impacts of buildings: an evaluation of building elements and limitations in current assessment methods71
Is laser-induced graphene (LIG) environmentally sustainable? Laboratory-scale life cycle assessment of LIG from petroleum- and bio-derived precursors69
Environmental impact of rocoto chili pepper production: integrated assessment of yield, bioactive composition, and environmental footprint63
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives61
Carbon footprint analysis of waste plastic-to-fuel pyrolysis: implications of feedstock composition and processing conditions60
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco59
Social life cycle assessment of integrated municipal solid waste management scenarios: a case study of Pakistan53
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203051
Mapping the landscape of life cycle sustainability assessments in Canadian agri-food systems: food commodity trends, gaps, and pathways to net-zero50
How differentiating design strategies across building components lead to maximum reduction of adverse environmental impacts50
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment48
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification48
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia47
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment46
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank45
Social organizational life cycle assessment of wire arc additive manufacturing: a case study of a Belgian company44
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage41
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products40
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production39
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?39
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems39
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells38
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting37
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization36
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges33
Life cycle and critical raw material analysis of shared e-scooters in Helsinki, Finland33
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production31
Comparative life cycle assessment and implementation of disposable, biodegradable, and reusable absorbent mats in healthcare31
Towards AI-augmented sustainability assessments: integrating large language models in the case of product social life cycle assessment30
From food loss and waste to feed: a systematic review of life cycle perspectives in livestock systems30
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)29
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects29
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability29
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review29
A utility-based framework for avoided emissions credit-allocation in product reuse29
Environmental impact of mezcal production: assessing bagasse valorization and vinasse treatment for a circular economy approach28
Methodological strategies for social life cycle assessment of an emerging technology: a case study on circular flexible plastic packaging28
Claiming-based allocation for waste-to-energy in district heating27
A comparison of the life cycle analysis (LCA) models used to determine the carbon intensity of biofuels, biojet/Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)27
Life cycle assessment of printed circuit boards recycling from waste mobile phones27
Combining nutritional value with environmental impact: a novel approach to nutritional life cycle assessment27
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity26
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets25
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop25
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network24
Social-LCA providing new insights and learnings for social responsibility—case pulp and paper industry24
Identifying uncertainty in the global warming impacts of biomaterials: an analysis of biosuccinic acid23
Visualisation of building life cycle assessment results using 3D business intelligence dashboards23
Dissipation-based life cycle impact assessment of mineral resource use—a review, case study, and implications for the product environmental footprint23
Response to: how to fit regionalized characterization factors in matrix-based LCA?22
Life cycle assessment of reduce, recycling and final treatment of plastic primary food packaging in Norway using a system expansion with multiple functions scope22
Revamping the LCIA framework through the lens of ecosystem services22
Life cycle assessment of an upcoming nuclear power plant decommissioning: the Fessenheim case study from public data22
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment22
Decarbonisation Index (DCI): an LCA-based key performance indicator for the automotive industry22
Advancing social sustainability of battery: developing social product category rules - Goal and Scope22
Digital technologies and circularity: trade-offs in the development of life cycle assessment22
LCA to evaluate the environmental opportunity cost of biological performances in finfish farming22
A carbon footprint of drinking water pipes in Tokyo: exploring the neglected use phase21
Correction: Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203021
Correction: A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment21
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review21
Environmental impacts and improvement implications for industrial meatballs manufacturing: scenario in a developing country21
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of recombinant human lactoferrin produced via precision fermentation: environmental drivers, hotspots and implications for sustainable scale-up21
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel21
Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units21
Correction: Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites21
An analysis of the effects of changes in Premise databases on the environmental impacts of key products20
Social hotspots in the automotive industry’s aluminum value chains—combining primary and generic data20
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)20
Correction: Expanding life cycle impact assessment to account for marine plastic emissions: a case study for the fishing industry20
Attribution of Global Warming Potential impacts in a multifunctional metals industry system using different system expansion and allocation methodologies20
Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of technology systems at different stages of development20
The social life cycle assessment of products and organizations—methodological developments and implementations20
Life cycle–based assessment methods for circular economy strategies in the agri-food sector20
Exploring the use phase social impacts of smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning control systems: A scoping review20
Design of a nutrient profiling model for life cycle assessment of “superfoods” to address nutritional deficiencies and enhance environmental protection in Spain20
A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment19
Life cycle assessment of offshore low-head pumped hydro storage and its comparison with other energy storage technologies19
Life cycle assessment of gas-based EAF steel production: environmental impacts and strategies for footprint reduction19
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting19
Torrefied plastic-fiber fuel pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels — a case study life cycle assessment for Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA19
Development of an LCA-based tool to assess the environmental sustainability level of cosmetics products19
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances19
Life cycle assessment of bioethanol production from banana, potato, and papaya waste19
Potential impact of abiotic resource use considering country-specific supply chain: consumption-based characterization and normalization utilizing a multi-regional input–output model19
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA19
The basket-of-functions approach applied to compare the climate aspects of high-quality mechanical recycling and downcycling of plastics19
Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research18
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity18
Rethinking social life cycle assessment for agricultural systems: insights using the pig value chain in the Republic of Ireland as a case study18
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers18
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment18
From analysis-LCA to message-LCA: a lost cause?18
Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project18
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach18
Quantifying the impact of data quality on machine learning prediction: a large-scale study of construction product environmental declarations18
Environmental assessment of jalapeño pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) cultivation using the LCA methodology: comparison between conventional open field and aeroponic production17
Integrating the Job Demands–Resources Model into social LCA: the JD-R tool for buffering harmful working conditions17
ISO 14075 and social sustainability: balancing organizational and product approaches in Social Life Cycle Assessment17
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon17
Towards a non-speciesist social life cycle assessment17
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors17
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review17
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of heavy machinery manufacturing: a case study in Türkiye16
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis16
Avocado production in different biomes throughout Peru: do differing cultivation practices translate into differences in environmental impacts?16
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains16
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones16
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and machine learning for sustainable designs: a case study on protective layers made of mineral-bonded fiber-reinforced composites16
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry16
Life cycle assessment of insect farming: a review16
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery16
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing16
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production16
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling16
Including biochar’s soil effects in lifecycle assessment: application to a practice-oriented case study in Aguascalientes, Mexico16
How does the energy transition reshape ecodesign of automotive components in battery electric vehicles? retrospective vs. prospective life cycle assessment15
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases15
Profiling employability skills for life cycle professionals amid the circular and digital economy15
Evaluating social sustainability in European photovoltaic module supply chains through social life cycle assessment15
Life cycle assessment of a marine biorefinery producing protein, bioactives and polymeric packaging material15
Environmental impact analysis of molded pulp cups based on different LCA tools15
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts15
Ex ante life cycle assessment of bauxite residue vitrification technology15
Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review14
From static to dynamic: Reviewing the application and potential of dynamic LCA to bio-based systems14
Balancing the green carbon cycle — Biogenic carbon within life cycle assessment14
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment14
Correction: Avocado production in different biomes throughout Peru: do differing cultivation practices translate into differences in environmental impacts?14
Toward sustainable fertilization: life cycle assessment of bio-based and mineral fertilizer production14
Beyond carbon: multi-criteria evaluation of environmental impact reduction alternatives in higher education institutions14
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products14
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment14
Replacing location-based electricity consumption with market-based residual mixes in background data to avoid possible double counting: a quantitative analysis of effects and challenges14
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility14
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) initiative14
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies13
Process simulation-based life cycle assessment of the six-step Cu-Cl Cycle of green hydrogen generation and comparative analysis with other Cu-Cl cycles13
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting13
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production13
Recycling and reusing a robust solution, or a utopia for lowering the greenhouse gas emissions of buildings? The case of Denmark13
Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan13
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study13
Joint production with multiple determining products: the case of platinum-group metals13
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel13
Meta-analysis of life cycle assessments for Li-ion batteries production emissions13
The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project12
Nutrient substitution for secondary fertilizer: Is current practice comprehensive enough? A review to reveal the LCA methodological challenges12
Life cycle assessment of different strawberry production methods in Germany with a particular focus on plastic emissions12
Grave without death? a plea for a more accurate wording of study scopes12
Towards a method for poverty reduction potential in social life cycle assessment with application to the cobalt supply chain12
Sustainability results must be contextualized for improved communication12
Adapting social life cycle assessment stakeholder categories and impact subcategories for informal economic sectors: insights from fish farming in Ghana12
Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study12
A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value12
Correction: Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA12
Correction to: Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery12
Correction: Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment12
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 systems12
Social performance and impact assessment of an autonomous system in the meat processing sector12
Beyond nutrients: advancing nutritional Life Cycle Assessment towards food context and health effects12
Policy implications of time-differentiated climate change analysis in life cycle assessment of building elements in Aotearoa New Zealand12
Uncovering the environmental burden of hops: a spatially resolved agricultural LCA for modern beer supply chains12
Is small or big solar better for the environment? Comparative life cycle assessment of solar photovoltaic rooftop vs. ground-mounted systems12
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context12
Ionizing radiation potential in life cycle impact assessment: broadening the assessment through inclusion of radioactive decay products12
Correction: Dynamic ELCC assessment of hospital building: contrast assembled interior decoration with traditional interior decoration12
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