Journal of Industrial Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Industrial Ecology is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock549
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Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process62
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions58
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods58
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites55
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK54
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure50
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways49
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa46
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires46
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)44
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing44
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 chain43
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents42
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU42
Exploring machine learning techniques to predict deforestation to enhance the decision‐making of road construction projects40
Regional analysis of aluminum and steel flows into the American automotive industry39
A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps39
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model38
Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods38
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition37
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency37
Measuring the “side effects” of tungsten recycling: Evidence from life cycle assessment37
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export35
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries35
Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis34
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Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study32
Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?32
Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area32
Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry30
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland29
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)29
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment29
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases28
Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators28
The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China26
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach25
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry25
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy25
Integrating vehicle‐to‐grid technology into energy system models: Novel methods and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions25
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments24
Environmental assessment of discarded plastic caps as a honeycomb core: An eco‐mechanical perspective24
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis24
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships24
Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes24
What would it take to establish a take‐back scheme for fishing gear? Insights from a comparative analysis of fishing gear and beverage containers24
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade23
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models23
Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach23
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 203022
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology21
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach21
Corrigendum to Wietschel et al. (2021). Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU. Journal of Industrial Ecology 25(3): 677–69221
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union21
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents21
The mediating role of functionality orientation for purchasing remanufactured products: Cases in China, Indonesia, and Thailand21
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability20
PIOT‐Hub ‐ A collaborative cloud tool for generation of physical input–output tables using mechanistic engineering models20
The role of community‐based learning in teaching about industrial ecology and sustainability in the context of engineering education: A case study from the field20
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies20
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens20
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Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings19
Industrial metabolism analysis of a Chinese wine industry chain based on material flow and input–output analyses19
Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India19
The impact of biogas production on the organic carbon input to the soil of Dutch dairy farms: A substance flow analysis19
Whole‐process and multi‐stakeholder‐based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development19
A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory19
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda19
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component18
Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–202118
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins18
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities18
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Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model17
How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?17
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries17
Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method17
Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains17
A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint17
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology16
Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution16
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda16
Cycling and reciprocity in weighted food webs and economic networks16
A terminology for downcycling16
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)16
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing16
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States16
System dynamics modeling of the global nickel supply system at a mine‐level resolution: Toward prospective dynamic criticality and resilience data15
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets15
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States15
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application15
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents15
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions15
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?15
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–201614
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling14
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse14
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China14
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators14
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE14
“When we got divorced, I left all my things behind.”: How the lifespan of household goods is linked to the biographical trajectory of their owners14
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles14
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam13
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis13
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE13
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 Goals13
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments13
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Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge13
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution13
Stand‐alone power‐to‐X production dynamics: A multi‐method approach to quantify the emission‐cost reduction trade‐off13
Materials footprint of household consumption in China13
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors12
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing12
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Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability12
Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study12
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains12
The PIOLab: Building global physical input–output tables in a virtual laboratory12
A review of methods to trace material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis: Comparative application of six methods to the United States and EXIOBASE3 regions, Part 212
An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe12
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts12
Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives12
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus12
Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead12
Circular economy: A new research field?11
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The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective11
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development11
A mechanistic model to link technical specifications of vehicle end‐of‐life treatment with the potential of closed‐loop recycling of post‐consumer scrap alloys11
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany11
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward11
Estimation of entity‐level land use and its application in urban sectoral land use footprint: A bottom‐up model with emerging geospatial data11
Life cycle assessment of CO2 conversion and storage in metal–CO2 electrochemical cells11
Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts11
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling11
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data11
Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway11
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle11
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Bottom‐up dynamics in circular innovation systems: The perspective of circular start‐ups10
The carbon footprint of capital formation: An empirical analysis on its relationship with a country's income growth10
Delineating the embodied CO2 emissions in Canada's exports: Routes, drivers, and paths10
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Future disposal surge: A new quantification approach for predicting waste from external thermal insulation composite systems in Germany10
Powering the circular future: Climate change and economic perspectives on second‐life batteries in the Belgian context10
Robust modeling of material flows to end‐uses under uncertainty: UK wood flows and material efficiency opportunities10
A sociomaterial conceptualization of flows in industrial ecology10
Intentions of housing developers to reuse wood materials in buildings10
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Urban–industrial symbiosis recommendation platform for urban factories: Leveraging historical exchange patterns through feature analysis for real‐world applications10
In‐use dissipation of technology‐critical elements from vehicles and renewable energy technologies in Vienna, Austria: A public health matter?10
Evolution of the anthropogenic chromium cycle in China10
Carbon and water conservation value of independent, place‐based repair in Lima, Peru10
Using quantitative storytelling to identify constraints in resource supply: The case of brown seaweed9
Assessing the prospective environmental impacts and circularity potentials of building stocks: An open‐source model from Austria (PULSE‐AT)9
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 19
Product label identification with OCR for model‐specific reuse, repair, and recycling: A case study for washing machines9
Evaluating sustainability impacts of critical mineral extractions: Integration of life cycle sustainability assessment and SDGs frameworks9
Location choice for large‐scale battery manufacturing plants: Exploring the role of clean energy, costs, and knowledge on location decisions in Europe9
Seven decades of plastic flows and stocks in the United States and pathways toward zero plastic pollution by 20509
Using lightweight airframe materials in aircraft structures and investigating potential reinforcement effects with sustainable aviation fuels: An analysis of environmental and economic impacts9
Pricing firms’ biodiversity risk exposure: Empirical evidence from audit fees9
Environmental performance and trends of the world's semiconductor foundry industry9
Cost versus environment? Combined life cycle, techno‐economic, and circularity assessment of silicon‐ and perovskite‐based photovoltaic systems9
Analysis of parameters about useful life extension in 70 tools and methods related to eco‐design and circular economy9
City‐scale assessment of the material and environmental footprint of buildings using an advanced building information model: A case study from Canberra, Australia9
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Linking socio‐economic metabolism models and simulation games: Reflections on benefits and challenges8
Life cycle assessment of in‐person, virtual, and hybrid academic conferences: New evidence and perspectives8
Data quality assessment of aggregated LCI datasets: A case study on fossil‐based and bio‐based plastic food packaging8
Carbon‐neutral pathways to 2050 for Japan's aviation industry in the absence of a mass supply of sustainable aviation fuels8
Categorization of manufacturing companies’ readiness profiles for the transition to the circular economy: A multidimensional cluster analysis8
Identifying methodological challenges in the social risk assessment of cellulosic ethanol value chains8
A review of system dynamics modeling for the sustainability assessment of biorefineries8
Thermodynamic rarity of electrical and electronic waste: Assessment and policy implications for critical materials8
Facilitating systemic eco‐innovation to pave the way for a circular economy: A qualitative‐empirical study on barriers and drivers in the European polyurethane industry8
The effect of consumption and production policies on circular economy business models: A machine learning approach8
A critical perspective on uncertainty appraisal and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment8
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Analysis of attachment factors in small household EEE: An opportunity toward the circular economy8
Built‐environment stocks in the context of a master‐planned city: A case study of Chandigarh, India8
Data‐driven models employed to waste plastic in China: Generation, classification, and environmental assessment8
Assessment of a critical mineral recycling network: A case study on nickel recovery from production waste in Korean eco‐industrial parks8
Scenario analysis of supply‐ and demand‐side solutions for circular economy and climate change mitigation in the global building sector7
Material flows and embodied energy of direct air capture: A cradle‐to‐gate inventory of selected technologies7
Implementing industrial and territorial ecology: The role of proximity and intermediaries in three French case studies7
Global sensitivity analysis of correlated uncertainties in life cycle assessment7
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Phosphorus (P) in animal diets as a driver of embodied P in animal products and net anthropogenic P inputs7
Examining global biodiversity accounts: Implications of aggregating characterization factors from elementary flows in multi‐regional input–output analysis7
Sustainability implications of artificial intelligence in the chemical industry: A conceptual framework7
A practice‐based framework for defining functional units in comparative life cycle assessments of materials7
Estimating stocks and flows of electric passenger vehicle batteries in the Norwegian fleet from 2011 to 20307
When floodplain restoration meets socio‐ecological goals for rural stormwater management7
Developing a methodology to quantify mismanaged plastic waste entering the ocean in coastal countries7
Sustainability transitions require an understanding of smaller cities7
Evaluating strategies to increase PET bottle recycling in the United States7
Is circular economy a failing sustainability paradigm? Not necessarily7
Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future7
Regional transformation pathways for the bioeconomy: A novel monitoring approach for complex transitions7
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Material metabolism and associated environmental impacts in Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration6
Does it pay to be science‐based green? The impact of science‐based emission‐reduction targets on corporate financial performance6
Material and energy use in Norway's residential building archetypes6
Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment6
Transforming existing local ecosystems to circular economy ecosystems for plastics: The case of the PlastiCity ecosystem6
The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.06
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Streamlined benefit analysis of products based on the Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating the voice of society into life cycle sustainability assessment6
Material stocks and embodied carbon in UK buildings: An archetype‐based, bottom‐up, GIS approach6
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Data innovation in industrial ecology6
More habitual deviation alleviates the trade‐offs between dietary health, environmental impacts, and economic cost6
Toward efficient mitigation solutions: Source‐based carbon pricing and economic implications in China6
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Bottom‐up estimation of material stocks and flows in Toronto's road network6
Taking stock for repair and refurbishing: A review of harvesting of spare parts from electrical and electronic products6
Analyzing network flows of used EEE and e‐waste with platform data: Adding reuse into the EPR system for WEEE recycling in China5
Electric and gasoline vehicle total cost of ownership across US cities5
High‐resolution quantification of building stock using multi‐source remote sensing imagery and deep learning5
Opportunities and limitations for the introduction of circular economy principles in EU aquaculture based on the regulatory framework5
DEALA — A novel economic life cycle impact assessment method for differentiated economic assessments in the context of life cycle sustainability assessments5
Australia's circular economy metrics and indicators5
What matters most to the material intensity coefficient of buildings? Random forest‐based evidence from China5
A data framework for assessing social inequality and equity in multi‐sector social, ecological, infrastructural urban systems: Focus on fine‐spatial scales5
Recycling plastics from e‐waste: Implications for effective eco‐design5
The stakeholder business case for circular economy: An ordonomic approach for developing a circular economy business case by stakeholder governance5
Building feature‐based machine learning regression to quantify urban material stocks: A Hong Kong study5
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Model uncertainty versus variability in the life cycle assessment of commercial fisheries5
Exploring paths toward enabling transitions: Systems thinking‐based approach and its application to shifts toward sustainable circulation of materials in transportation infrastructure5
A tool to estimate the contribution of fishing gear modifications to reduce benthic impact5
How do different hydrogen and emission allowance price scenarios shape the cost‐effective energy transition in Germany's process industries?5
Long‐term lifetime trends of large appliances since the introduction in Norwegian households5
Uncovering urban transportation infrastructure expansion and sustainability challenge in Bangkok: Insights from a material stock perspective5
Modeling interior component stocks of UK housing using exterior features and machine learning techniques5
A hierarchical Bayesian regression model that reduces uncertainty in material demand predictions5
The evolution of material stock research: From exploring to rising to hot studies5
Direct reuse of the end‐of‐use structural steel: Assessing the economic and carbon reduction effects5
Eco‐labeling of freight transport services: Design, evaluation, and research directions5
Causal allocation of fixed impacts in product systems: Assessing the effect of data demand on network energy consumption4
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