Journal of Cleaner Production

Article	Citations
Photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants using TiO2-based photocatalysts: A review	897
A review on conventional and novel materials towards heavy metal adsorption in wastewater treatment application	707
An extensive review on the consequences of chemical pesticides on human health and environment	616
Internet of Things (IoT): Opportunities, issues and challenges towards a smart and sustainable future	452
Applying blockchain technology to improve agri-food traceability: A review of development methods, benefits and challenges	412
The effects of trade openness on decoupling carbon emissions from economic growth – Evidence from 182 countries	403
Recent advances in using of chitosan-based adsorbents for removal of pharmaceutical contaminants: A review	394
The nexus between urbanization, renewable energy, trade, and ecological footprint in ASEAN countries	388
g-C3N4/carbon dot-based nanocomposites serve as efficacious photocatalysts for environmental purification and energy generation: A review	386
Circular business models: A review	379
Digital finance, green technological innovation and energy-environmental performance: Evidence from China's regional economies	376
Artificial intelligence in sustainable energy industry: Status Quo, challenges and opportunities	372
Does technological innovation reduce CO2 emissions?Cross-country evidence	366
A comprehensive review on green synthesis of nature-inspired metal nanoparticles: Mechanism, application and toxicity	363
A review of the state of health for lithium-ion batteries: Research status and suggestions	359
Arsenic removal technologies and future trends: A mini review	338
Circular economy in the construction industry: A systematic literature review	336
Industry 4.0 based sustainable circular economy approach for smart waste management system to achieve sustainable development goals: A case study of Indonesia	321
Blockchain technology and the circular economy: Implications for sustainability and social responsibility	318
A review of China’s municipal solid waste (MSW) and comparison with international regions: Management and technologies in treatment and resource utilization	318
Construction and demolition waste management contributing factors coupled with reduce, reuse, and recycle strategies for effective waste management: A review	300
The Dynamic Impact of Digital Economy on Carbon Emission Reduction: Evidence City-level Empirical Data in China	300
Nexus between green finance, non-fossil energy use, and carbon intensity: Empirical evidence from China based on a vector error correction model	297
Environment friendly, renewable and sustainable poly lactic acid (PLA) based natural fiber reinforced composites – A comprehensive review	294
Management research and the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs): A bibliometric investigation and systematic review	294

Integrating renewable sources into energy system for smart city as a sagacious strategy towards clean and sustainable process	290
Towards closing the attitude-intention-behavior gap in green consumption: A narrative review of the literature and an overview of future research directions	287
Effect of green technology innovation on green total factor productivity in China: Evidence from spatial durbin model analysis	284
Properties of fresh and hardened fly ash/slag based geopolymer concrete: A review	281
A critical review on biochar for enhancing biogas production from anaerobic digestion of food waste and sludge	278
Investigating the nexus between economic complexity, energy consumption and ecological footprint for the United States: New insights from quantile methods	277
Recent progress on flat plate solar collectors and photovoltaic systems in the presence of nanofluid: A review	273
Three pillars of sustainability in the wake of COVID-19: A systematic review and future research agenda for sustainable development	271
Recent advancement in the natural fiber polymer composites: A comprehensive review	270
How renewable energy consumption contribute to environmental quality? The role of education in OECD countries	268
Blockchain technology adoption, architecture, and sustainable agri-food supply chains	267
Current technologies for plastic waste treatment: A review	266
China's agricultural green total factor productivity based on carbon emission: An analysis of evolution trend and influencing factors	260
Green technological innovation, green finance, and financial development and their role in green total factor productivity: Empirical insights from China	258
A review on PEM electrolyzer modelling: Guidelines for beginners	255
The imperativeness of environmental quality in the United States transportation sector amidst biomass-fossil energy consumption and growth	255
Does renewable energy consumption reduce ecological footprint? Evidence from eight developing countries of Asia	255
Acceleration of discharge process of clean energy storage unit with insertion of porous foam considering nanoparticle enhanced paraffin	252
Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve in Malaysia: The role of globalization in sustainable environment	250
How does urbanization affect carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from China	249
Application of industry 4.0 technologies in SMEs for ethical and sustainable operations: Analysis of challenges	247
Life cycle assessment of bio-based and fossil-based plastic: A review	243
Ammonia as an energy vector: Current and future prospects for low-carbon fuel applications in internal combustion engines	241
Innovation, trade openness and CO2 emissions in selected countries in Africa	240
Adsorption of organic dyes from wastewater by metal-doped porous carbon materials	239
Asymmetric impacts of the policy and development of green credit on the debt financing cost and maturity of different types of enterprises in China	237
Sustainable supplier selection: A novel integrated fuzzy best worst method (F-BWM) and fuzzy CoCoSo with Bonferroni (CoCoSo’B) multi-criteria model	237
Can environmental regulation promote urban green innovation Efficiency? An empirical study based on Chinese cities	235
Can China’s policy of carbon emission trading promote carbon emission reduction?	231
The relationship between organizational culture, sustainability, and digitalization in SMEs: A systematic review	231
A comprehensive review of engineered biochar: Production, characteristics, and environmental applications	230
Carbon emission transfer strategies in supply chain with lag time of emission reduction technologies and low-carbon preference of consumers	228
Predictive modeling for sustainable high-performance concrete from industrial wastes: A comparison and optimization of models using ensemble learners	227
Green innovation: A systematic literature review	226
Solar photovoltaic energy optimization methods, challenges and issues: A comprehensive review	226
Unleashing the convergence amid digitalization and sustainability towards pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): A holistic review	221
Review on biomass feedstocks, pyrolysis mechanism and physicochemical properties of biochar: State-of-the-art framework to speed up vision of circular bioeconomy	220
Cleaner dyeing of textiles using plasma treatment and natural dyes: A review	220
To identify industry 4.0 and circular economy adoption barriers in the agriculture supply chain by using ISM-ANP	219
A state-of-the-art review and meta-analysis on sustainable supply chain management: Future research directions	219
Plastic recycling in additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review and opportunities for the circular economy	217
Ecological footprint, economic complexity and natural resources rents in Latin America: Empirical evidence using quantile regressions	217
Beyond the environmental Kuznets Curve in E7 economies: Accounting for the combined impacts of institutional quality and renewables	215
Critical success factors of green innovation: Technology, organization and environment readiness	212
Effect of using mineral admixtures and ceramic wastes as coarse aggregates on properties of ultrahigh-performance concrete	211
Can environmental regulation directly promote green innovation behavior?—— based on situation of industrial agglomeration	211
The past and future of sustainable concrete: A critical review and new strategies on cement-based materials	209
Forecasting the trajectory of electric vehicle sales and the consequences for worldwide CO2 emissions	207
Chlorination disinfection by-products in municipal drinking water – A review	206
Comprehensive utilization status of red mud in China: A critical review	205

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on environmental awareness, sustainable consumption and social responsibility: Evidence from generations in Brazil and Portugal	204
A review of biodegradable plastics to biodegradable microplastics: Another ecological threat to soil environments?	202
A review of emerging trends in membrane science and technology for sustainable water treatment	202
Industry 4.0 and sustainable development: A systematic mapping of triple bottom line, Circular Economy and Sustainable Business Models perspectives	201
Do technological innovations have symmetric or asymmetric effects on environmental quality? Evidence from Pakistan	199
Artificial neural network model to predict the compressive strength of eco-friendly geopolymer concrete incorporating silica fume and natural zeolite	199
What does the China’s economic recovery after COVID-19 pandemic mean for the economic growth and energy consumption of other countries?	199
Bridge the gap: Consumers’ purchase intention and behavior regarding sustainable clothing	198
Towards circular and more sustainable buildings: A systematic literature review on the circular economy in the built environment	198
How technological progress affects the carbon emission efficiency? Evidence from national panel quantile regression	197
Fundamentals and photocatalysis of methylene blue dye using various nanocatalytic assemblies- a critical review	197
Recent technical advancements, economics and environmental impacts of floating photovoltaic solar energy conversion systems	196
Key resources for industry 4.0 adoption and its effect on sustainable production and circular economy: An empirical study	195
Surface morphology assessment of CFRP transverse grinding using CNT nanofluid minimum quantity lubrication	194
Hydrogeochemical characterization and quality assessment of groundwater based on integrated-weight water quality index in a concentrated urban area	194
Review of availability of source materials for geopolymer/sustainable concrete	192
Industry 4.0, cleaner production and circular economy: An integrative framework for evaluating ethical and sustainable business performance of manufacturing organizations	192
Nanofluids: Physical phenomena, applications in thermal systems and the environment effects- a critical review	191
Testing the EKC hypothesis for the top six hydropower energy-consuming countries: Evidence from Fourier Bootstrap ARDL procedure	191
Food waste in hospitality and food services: A systematic literature review and framework development approach	191
An assessment of consumers’ willingness to utilize solar energy in China: End-users’ perspective	190
Improving construction and demolition waste collection service in an urban area using a simheuristic approach: A case study in Sydney, Australia	189
A review on municipal solid waste as a renewable source for waste-to-energy project in India: Current practices, challenges, and future opportunities	189
Review of rare earth elements recovery from secondary resources for clean energy technologies: Grand opportunities to create wealth from waste	189
Potential of building integrated and attached/applied photovoltaic (BIPV/BAPV) for adaptive less energy-hungry building’s skin: A comprehensive review	188
Recent development of super-wettable materials and their applications in oil-water separation	186
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on socio-economic, energy-environment and transport sector globally and sustainable development goal (SDG)	184
Breaking circular economy barriers	184
The role of institutional quality and environment-related technologies in environmental degradation for BRICS	183
Optimizing local climate zones to mitigate urban heat island effect in human settlements	182
Sustainable toxic dyes removal with advanced materials for clean water production: A comprehensive review	182
Alternative fuel options for low carbon maritime transportation: Pathways to 2050	182
Does renewable energy reduce ecological footprint at the expense of economic growth? An empirical analysis of 120 countries	182
Wind energy for sustainable development: Driving factors and future outlook	181
Sustainability innovations and firm competitiveness: A review	181
Identifying the impacts of natural and human factors on ecosystem service in the Yangtze and Yellow River Basins	180
Carbon emission efficiency of China’s industry sectors: From the perspective of embodied carbon emissions	179
Coupling coordination degree of production, living and ecological spaces and its influencing factors in the Yellow River Basin	179
A review of dust accumulation and cleaning methods for solar photovoltaic systems	179
Potentials of industry 4.0 for supply chain management within the triple bottom line of sustainability – A systematic literature review	179
Mitigations pathways towards sustainable development: Assessing the influence of fiscal and monetary policies on carbon emissions in BRICS economies	179
The effect of emission trading policy on carbon emission reduction: Evidence from an integrated study of pilot regions in China	178
A systematic review for measuring circular economy: The 61 indicators	178
Intelligent algorithms and control strategies for battery management system in electric vehicles: Progress, challenges and future outlook	177
Social sustainability tensions in multi-tier supply chain: A systematic literature review towards conceptual framework development	177
Environmental regulation and green innovation: Evidence from China’s new environmental protection law	177
Efficient encapsulation of toxic dyes from wastewater using several biodegradable natural polymers and their composites	176
Lignocellulosic biomass from agricultural waste to the circular economy: a review with focus on biofuels, biocomposites and bioplastics	176
Stepping up and stepping out of COVID-19: New challenges for environmental sustainability policies in the global airline industry	175
The criticality of information and communication technology and human capital in environmental sustainability: Evidence from Latin American and Caribbean countries	175
A review of industrial waste heat recovery system for power generation with Organic Rankine Cycle: Recent challenges and future outlook	175
Construction of landscape ecological network based on landscape ecological risk assessment in a large-scale opencast coal mine area	174
Review on state-of-health of lithium-ion batteries: Characterizations, estimations and applications	174
Predicting energy consumption in multiple buildings using machine learning for improving energy efficiency and sustainability	173
The effect of the Covid-19 on sharing economy activities	173
How environmental regulation affect corporate green investment: Evidence from China	173
Lignin as a potential source of high-added value compounds: A review	173
Chitosan-based materials: Preparation, modification and application	172
The effect of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: Non-parametric evidence	170
A review on European Union’s strategy for plastics in a circular economy and its impact on food safety	169
Reviewing two decades of cleaner alternative marine fuels: Towards IMO's decarbonization of the maritime transport sector	169
Deep learning models for solar irradiance forecasting: A comprehensive review	168
Does green innovation mitigate financing constraints? Evidence from China’s private enterprises	167
Data-driven state of charge estimation of lithium-ion batteries: Algorithms, implementation factors, limitations and future trends	167
A comprehensive review on the pretreatment process in lithium-ion battery recycling	167
Comprehensive overview of maximum power point tracking algorithms of PV systems under partial shading condition	167
Effects of heavy metal contamination on river water quality due to release of industrial effluents	166
A review on the characteristics of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants: A source for toxic chemicals	166
E-waste in India at a glance: Current trends, regulations, challenges and management strategies	165
Plant extracts as green corrosion inhibitor for ferrous metal alloys: A review	165
Spatiotemporal change detection of ecological quality and the associated affecting factors in Dongting Lake Basin, based on RSEI	165
Links between circular economy and climate change mitigation in the built environment	164
A sustainable paradigm of sewage sludge biochar: Valorization, opportunities, challenges and future prospects	164
Measuring green total factor productivity of China's agricultural sector: A three-stage SBM-DEA model with non-point source pollution and CO2 emissions	164
Industry 4.0 ten years on: A bibliometric and systematic review of concepts, sustainability value drivers, and success determinants	164
Environmental cost of non-renewable energy and economic progress: Do ICT and financial development mitigate some burden?	164
Developments in the life cycle assessment of chemical recycling of plastic waste – A review	164
Technology assessment of blockchain-based technologies in the food supply chain	163
Current knowledge from heavy metal pollution in Chinese smelter contaminated soils, health risk implications and associated remediation progress in recent decades: A critical review	162
Green credit policy, government behavior and green innovation quality of enterprises	162

Green human resource management practices and environmental performance in Malaysian green hotels: The role of green intellectual capital and pro-environmental behavior	161
Is there a green premium in the green bond market? Systematic literature review revealing premium determinants	161
Sustainable manufacturing. Bibliometrics and content analysis	160
Exploring factors influencing construction waste reduction: A structural equation modeling approach	160
Corporate social responsibility and financial performance: Evidence from U.S tech firms	159