OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Industrial Ecology is 4. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Critiques of the circular economy	391
Whole‐life embodied carbon in multistory buildings: Steel, concrete and timber structures	99
Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data	93
Life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion battery recycling using pyrometallurgical technologies	90
Techno‐economic assessment and comparison of different plastic recycling pathways: A German case study	87
Critical review of global plastics stock and flow data	68
Closed‐loop sustainable product design for circular economy	65
Circular economy framework for automobiles: Closing energy and material loops	56
Barriers to the circular economy: The case of the Dutch technical and interior textiles industries	48
Global material flow analysis of glass: From raw materials to end of life	47
Decarbonizing the cementitious materials cycle: A whole‐systems review of measures to decarbonize the cement supply chain in the UK and European contexts	47
Is life cycle assessment enough to address unintended side effects from Circular Economy initiatives?	43
Emission reduction strategies in the EU steel industry: Implications for business model innovation	43
Toward a life cycle inventory for graphite production	43
Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy	41
Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation	41
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling	41
Aquatic micro‐ and nano‐plastics in life cycle assessment: Development of an effect factor for the quantification of their physical impact on biota	36
Opportunities and limitations for the introduction of circular economy principles in EU aquaculture based on the regulatory framework	35
Regional circular economy of building materials: Environmental and economic assessment combining Material Flow Analysis, Input‐Output Analyses, and Life Cycle Assessment	34
Sustainability implications of artificial intelligence in the chemical industry: A conceptual framework	34
Marine biomass for a circular blue‐green bioeconomy? A life cycle perspective on closing nitrogen and phosphorus land‐marine loops	33
A critical perspective on uncertainty appraisal and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment	32
Material intensity database for the Dutch building stock: Towards Big Data in material stock analysis	32
Material efficiency and its contribution to climate change mitigation in Germany: A deep decarbonization scenario analysis until 2060	31

Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach	31
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins	31
Reducing the carbon footprint of ICT products through material efficiency strategies: A life cycle analysis of smartphones	31
Environmental impacts of the future supply of rare earths for magnet applications	30
Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future	30
Effects of the energy transition on environmental impacts of cobalt supply: A prospective life cycle assessment study on future supply of cobalt	29
Three‐dimensional product circularity	28
Calculating the chemical exergy of materials	28
Implementation of uncertainty analysis and moment‐independent global sensitivity analysis for full‐scale life cycle assessment models	28
A terminology for downcycling	28
Shifting expenditure on food, holidays, and furnishings could lower greenhouse gas emissions by almost 40%	28
Evolution of the anthropogenic chromium cycle in China	27
Does increased circularity lead to environmental sustainability?: The case of washing machine reuse in Germany	27
Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment	26
Greenhouse gas emissions of Norwegian seafoods: From comprehensive to simplified assessment	26
Circular economy: A new research field?	26
Rebound effect and sustainability science: A review	26
A review of inventory modeling methods for missing data in life cycle assessment	25
Futura: A new tool for transparent and shareable scenario analysis in prospective life cycle assessment	25
Potential CO₂reduction and uptake due to industrialization and efficient cement use in Brazil by 2050	24
Contributing to carbon peak: Estimating the causal impact of eco‐industrial parks on low‐carbon development in China	24
Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING)	23
Life cycle assessment‐based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment is also relative	22
Life cycle impact assessment methods for estimating the impacts of dissipative flows of metals	22
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of aluminum based on regional industrial transfer in China	22
Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks	22
3D printing to enable the reuse of marine plastic waste with reduced environmental impacts	21
A scalable data collection, characterization, and accounting framework for urban material stocks	21
Greenhouse gas emissions from the global transportation of crude oil: Current status and mitigation potential	20
Emissions of electric vehicle charging in future scenarios: The effects of time of charging	20
International comparison of impurities mixing and accumulation in steel scrap	20
Building feature‐based machine learning regression to quantify urban material stocks: A Hong Kong study	20
A social life cycle assessment of vanadium redox flow and lithium‐ion batteries for energy storage	20
Facilitating systemic eco‐innovation to pave the way for a circular economy: A qualitative‐empirical study on barriers and drivers in the European polyurethane industry	20
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	20
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	20
Development of a bridge circularity assessment framework to promote resource efficiency in infrastructure projects	19
Tracking the diffusion of industrial symbiosis scholarship using bibliometrics: Comparing across Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar	19
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	19
The link between product service lifetime and GHG emissions: A comparative study for different consumer products	19
The evolution of material stock research: From exploring to rising to hot studies	19
Extending urban stocks and flows analysis to urban greenhouse gas emission accounting: A case of Odense, Denmark	19
A data framework for assessing social inequality and equity in multi‐sector social, ecological, infrastructural urban systems: Focus on fine‐spatial scales	18
Stocks and flows of buildings: Analysis of existing, demolished, and constructed buildings in Tampere, Finland, 2000–2018	18
Sharing economy rebound: The case of peer‐to‐peer sharing of food waste	18
Design of an endpoint indicator for mineral resource supply risks in life cycle sustainability assessment: The case of Li‐ion batteries	18
Packaging environmental impact on seafood supply chains: A review of life cycle assessment studies	18
A field experiment on workplace norms and electric vehicle charging etiquette	18
The role of socio‐economic material stocks for natural resource use in the United States of America from 1870 to 2100	18
How to handle the policy conflict between resource circulation and hazardous substances in the use of waste?	17

Increasing the energy efficiency of a data center based on machine learning	17
Critical transmission sectors in embodied atmospheric mercury emission network in China	17
High‐resolution quantification of building stock using multi‐source remote sensing imagery and deep learning	17
Does it pay to be science‐based green? The impact of science‐based emission‐reduction targets on corporate financial performance	17
Turning trash into treasure: An approach to the environmental assessment of waste prevention and its application to clothing and furniture in Switzerland	17
Combining industrial ecology tools to assess potential greenhouse gas reductions of a circular economy: Method development and application to Switzerland	17
Quantifying longevity and circularity of copper for different resource efficiency policies at the material and product levels	17
Modern slavery footprints in global supply chains	16
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains	16
Taking stock for repair and refurbishing: A review of harvesting of spare parts from electrical and electronic products	15
Life cycle assessment of an industrial‐scale vanadium flow battery	15
Determining the material intensities of buildings selected by random sampling: A case study from Vienna	15
Material system analysis: A novel multilayer system approach to correlate EU flows and stocks of Li‐ion batteries and their raw materials	15
Quantifying urban mass gain and loss by a GIS‐based material stocks and flows analysis	15
Gender in sustainability research: Inclusion, intersectionality, and patterns of knowledge production	15
A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint	14
Identifying sectoral impacts on global scarce water uses from multiple perspectives	14
The sociometabolic transition of a small Greek island: Assessing stock dynamics, resource flows, and material circularity from 1929 to 2019	14
Developing a methodology to quantify mismanaged plastic waste entering the ocean in coastal countries	14
Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU: An integrated supply chain network optimization and life cycle assessment approach	14
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	14
Exploring machine learning techniques to predict deforestation to enhance the decision‐making of road construction projects	14
The carbon footprint of capital formation: An empirical analysis on its relationship with a country's income growth	14
Attributional and consequential life cycle assessments in a circular economy with integration of a quality indicator: A case study of cascading wood products	14
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency	14
Quantifying uncertainty for AWARE characterization factors	13
Integrating vehicle‐to‐grid technology into energy system models: Novel methods and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions	13
Developing Regenerate: A circular economy engagement tool for the assessment of new and existing buildings	13
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component	13
Sector‐specific scenarios for future stocks and flows of aluminum: An analysis based on shared socioeconomic pathways	13
Characterization factors for ocean acidification impacts on marine biodiversity	13
A practice‐based framework for defining functional units in comparative life cycle assessments of materials	13
Comparing the environmental performance of distributed versus centralized plastic recycling systems: Applying hybrid simulation modeling to life cycle assessment	13
Consumer acceptance of circular business models and potential effects on economic performance: The case of washing machines	13
A core ontology for modeling life cycle sustainability assessment on the Semantic Web	13
Toward the development of subnational hybrid input–output tables in a multiregional framework	13
Interrelationships between electricity, gas, and water consumption in large‐scale buildings	13
Estimation of entity‐level land use and its application in urban sectoral land use footprint: A bottom‐up model with emerging geospatial data	12
Machine learning‐based stocks and flows modeling of road infrastructure	12
A transitions framework for circular business models	12
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade	12
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment	12
Contribution of circular economy strategies to climate change mitigation: Generic assessment methodology with focus on developing countries	12
A review of methods to trace material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis: From industry shipments in physical units to monetary input–output tables, Part 1	12
Life cycle assessment of salinity gradient energy recovery using reverse electrodialysis	12
Circular life cycle sustainability assessment: An integrated framework	12
Creating multi‐scale nested MRIO tables for linking localized impacts to global consumption drivers	11
Development of eco‐industrial parks in Ethiopia: The case of Hawassa Industrial Park	11
Quantifying the ecosystem services values of electricity generation in the US Chihuahuan Desert: A life cycle perspective	11
Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods	11
An industrial symbiosis simulation game: Evidence from the circular sustainable business development class	11
Do sectoral material efficiency improvements add up to greenhouse gas emissions reduction on an economy‐wide level?	11
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	11
A general framework for stock dynamics of populations and built and natural environments	11
From carbon neutral to climate neutral: Dynamic life cycle assessment for wood‐based panels produced in China	11
Evaluating sustainability impacts of critical mineral extractions: Integration of life cycle sustainability assessment and SDGs frameworks	11
Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City	11
Assessing the circularity of regions: Stakes of trade of waste for treatment	11
Solid waste optimization life‐cycle framework in Python (SwolfPy)	11
Bottom‐up estimation of material stocks and flows in Toronto's road network	10
Life cycle assessment on the reuse and recycling of the nickel‐metal hydride battery: Fleet‐based study on hybrid vehicle batteries from Japan	10
Quantifying the life cycle environmental impacts of water pollution control in a typical chemical industrial park in China	10
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries	10
Role of protected area in reducing marine and plastic litter: A case study from India's first Marine Protected Area and comparison with Non‐Protected Areas	10
Mapping first to final uses for rare earth elements, globally and in the United States	10
Correcting remaining truncations in hybrid life cycle assessment database compilation	10
Toward a low‐carbon and circular building sector: Building strategies and urbanization pathways for the Netherlands	10
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries	10
Economic and environmental assessment of automotive plastic waste end‐of‐life options: Energy recovery versus chemical recycling	10
Material flow analysis of zinc during the manufacturing process in integrated steel mills in China	10
Multi‐scenario simulation on reducing CO₂ emissions from China's major manufacturing industries targeting 2060	10
Impact of urbanization on construction material consumption: A global analysis	10
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle	10
Sustainability assessment of product systems in dire straits due to ISO 14040–14044 standards: Five key issues and solutions	10
This city is not a bin: Crowdmapping the distribution of urban litter	10
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution	10
Green batteries for clean skies: Sustainability assessment of lithium‐sulfur all‐solid‐state batteries for electric aircraft	10
A product–component framework for modeling stock dynamics and its application for electric vehicles and lithium‐ion batteries	10
Regionalized nitrogen fate in freshwater systems on a global scale	10
A sociomaterial conceptualization of flows in industrial ecology	10

Building stock dynamics and the impact of construction bubble and bust on employment in China	10
Capital‐based life cycle sustainability assessment: Evaluation of potential industrial symbiosis synergies	10
Simultaneously tracing the fate of seven metals at a global level with MaTrace‐multi	10
Economy‐wide material system analysis: Mapping material flows through the economy	9
More than the sum of the parts: System analysis of the usability of roofs in housing estates	9
Optimizing future cost and emissions of electric delivery vehicles	9
Quantifying environmental impacts of cleaner fish used as sea lice treatments in salmon aquaculture with life cycle assessment	9
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	9
From efficiency to equity: Changing patterns of China's regional transportation systems from an in‐use steel stocks perspective	9
Semisupervised machine learning classification framework for material intensity parameters of residential buildings	9
What would it take to establish a take‐back scheme for fishing gear? Insights from a comparative analysis of fishing gear and beverage containers	9
Material flow analysis study of asphalt in an Austrian municipality	9
High‐resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data	9
Co‐benefits analysis of industrial symbiosis in China's key industries: Case of steel, cement, and power industries	9
Spatial–temporal dynamics of the built environment toward sustainability: A material stock and flow analysis in Chinese new and old urban areas	9
Until death do us part? In‐depth insights into Dutch consumers’ considerations about product lifetimes and lifetime extension	9
What matters most to the material intensity coefficient of buildings? Random forest‐based evidence from China	9
Can the Caribbean localize its food system?: Evidence from biomass flow accounting	9
Integration of future water scarcity and electricity supply into prospective LCA: Application to the assessment of water desalination for the steel industry	9
The role of raw materials to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Tracing the risks and positive contributions of cobalt along the lithium‐ion battery supply chain	9
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities	9
Material efficiency for climate change mitigation	8
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward	8
Evaluating the cascading‐use of wood furniture: How value‐retention processes can contribute to material efficiency and circularity	8
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	8
Can a small island nation build resilience? The significance of resource‐use patterns and socio‐metabolic risks in The Bahamas	8
Coastal sand mining of heavy mineral sands: Contestations, resistance, and ecological distribution conflicts at HMS extraction frontiers across the world	8
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology	8
Analysis of parameters about useful life extension in 70 tools and methods related to eco‐design and circular economy	8
A mechanistic model to link technical specifications of vehicle end‐of‐life treatment with the potential of closed‐loop recycling of post‐consumer scrap alloys	8
Eco‐labeling of freight transport services: Design, evaluation, and research directions	8
Methodology and optimization tool for a personalized low environmental impact and healthful diet specific to country and season	8
Global environmental and socio‐economic impacts of a transition to a circular economy in metal and electrical products: A Dutch case study	8
Using quantitative storytelling to identify constraints in resource supply: The case of brown seaweed	8
When does upcycling mitigate climate change? The case of wet spent grains and fruit and vegetable residues in Canada	8
Copper ore material footprints and transfers embodied in domestic and international trade of provinces in China	8
Global distribution of material inflows to in‐use stocks in 2011 and its implications for a circularity transition	8
Plastic value chain and performance metric framework for optimal recycling	8
Worse is worse and better doesn't matter?: The effects of favorable and unfavorable environmental information on consumers’ willingness to pay	8
Life cycle assessment of an ecological living module equipped with conventional rooftop or integrated concentrating photovoltaics	8
Location choice for large‐scale battery manufacturing plants: Exploring the role of clean energy, costs, and knowledge on location decisions in Europe	8
Methodological framework to find links between life cycle sustainability assessment categories and the UN Sustainable Development Goals based on literature	8
Evaluation of the environmental sustainability of the inshore great scallop (Pecten maximus) fishery in Galicia	7
The PIOLab: Building global physical input–output tables in a virtual laboratory	7
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)	7
A new method to estimate the lifetime of long‐life product categories	7
Seven decades of plastic flows and stocks in the United States and pathways toward zero plastic pollution by 2050	7
Materials footprint of household consumption in China	7
Material system analysis: Characterization of flows, stocks, and performance indicators of manganese, nickel, and natural graphite in the EU, 2012–2016	7
Effects of feed formula and farming system on the environmental performance of shrimp production chain from a life cycle perspective	7
Understanding relative metal prices and availability: Combining physical and economic perspectives	7
Dynamic exergy analysis: From industrial data to exergy flows	7
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	7
CO₂ emissions of the construction sector in Spain during the real estate boom: Input–output subsystem analysis and decomposition	6
Project portfolio planning under CO₂ fleet emission restrictions in the automotive industry	6
Tracking the material cycle of Italian bricks with the aid of building information modeling	6
A consequential approach to life cycle sustainability assessment with an agent‐based model to determine the potential contribution of chemical recycling to UN Sustainable Development Goals	6
Total environmental impacts of Japanese material production	6
Analysis of attachment factors in small household EEE: An opportunity toward the circular economy	6
Environmental and economic implications of stormwater management alternatives in rural development	6
Smartphone repairability indexes in practice: Linking repair scores to industrial design features	6
Uncovering urban transportation infrastructure expansion and sustainability challenge in Bangkok: Insights from a material stock perspective	6
Structural attribution of emissions along the global supply chain and implications for climate policy	6
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	6
Changes of production and consumption structures in coastal regions lead to mercury emission control in China	6
Life cycle assessment of Indonesian canned crab (Portunus pelagicus)	6
Life cycle GHG assessment of magnetic bearing and oil lubricated bearing water cooled chillers	6
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus	6
Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis	6
A review of system dynamics modeling for the sustainability assessment of biorefineries	6
Intensified production of zeolite A: Life cycle assessment of a continuous flow pilot plant and comparison with a conventional batch plant	6
High cost of waste treatment calls for systematic rethinking: A case study for a chemical industrial park in China	5
A model for the intensity of fishing gear	5
The role of community‐based learning in teaching about industrial ecology and sustainability in the context of engineering education: A case study from the field	5
Life cycle assessment of CO₂ conversion and storage in metal–CO₂ electrochemical cells	5
The relationship between climate change mitigation strategies and the financial performance of Brazilian companies	5
The current and potential role of urban metabolism studies to analyze the role of food in urban sustainability	5
Phosphorus (P) in animal diets as a driver of embodied P in animal products and net anthropogenic P inputs	5
Impacts of electric vehicles on the European high and extra high voltage power grid	5
Data‐driven models employed to waste plastic in China: Generation, classification, and environmental assessment	5
Life cycle cost analysis of distributed versus centralized plastic sorting and recycling	5
The mediating role of functionality orientation for purchasing remanufactured products: Cases in China, Indonesia, and Thailand	5
A comparison study of bottom‐up and top‐down methods for analyzing the physical composition of municipal solid waste	5
Should high‐cobalt EV batteries be repurposed? Using LCA to assess the impact of technological innovation on the waste hierarchy	5
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition	5
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export	5
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	5
A or I‐A? Unifying the computational structures of process‐ and IO‐based LCA for clarity and consistency	5
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens	5
Variability in greenhouse gas footprints of the global wind farm fleet	5
Expert elicitation and data noise learning for material flow analysis using Bayesian inference	5
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors	5
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions	5
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	5
Estimating stocks and flows of electric passenger vehicle batteries in the Norwegian fleet from 2011 to 2030	5