OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Ecology is 11. 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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Critiques of the circular economy	320
Whole‐life embodied carbon in multistory buildings: Steel, concrete and timber structures	94
Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data	84
Life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion battery recycling using pyrometallurgical technologies	84
Techno‐economic assessment and comparison of different plastic recycling pathways: A German case study	82
Three‐scope carbon emission inventories of global cities	75
Critical review of global plastics stock and flow data	63
Sharing the safe operating space: Exploring ethical allocation principles to operationalize the planetary boundaries and assess absolute sustainability at individual and industrial sector levels	62
Closed‐loop sustainable product design for circular economy	56
Circular economy framework for automobiles: Closing energy and material loops	50
Barriers to the circular economy: The case of the Dutch technical and interior textiles industries	45
Decarbonizing the cementitious materials cycle: A whole‐systems review of measures to decarbonize the cement supply chain in the UK and European contexts	44
The evolution of consumer electronic waste in the United States	44
Emission reduction potentials for academic conference travel	44
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling	40
Global material flow analysis of glass: From raw materials to end of life	39
Is life cycle assessment enough to address unintended side effects from Circular Economy initiatives?	39
Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation	38
Material efficiency and climate change mitigation of passenger vehicles	37
Toward a life cycle inventory for graphite production	35
Emission reduction strategies in the EU steel industry: Implications for business model innovation	34
Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy	33
Regional circular economy of building materials: Environmental and economic assessment combining Material Flow Analysis, Input‐Output Analyses, and Life Cycle Assessment	33
Static material flow analysis of neodymium in China	32
Material intensity database for the Dutch building stock: Towards Big Data in material stock analysis	31

Material efficiency and its contribution to climate change mitigation in Germany: A deep decarbonization scenario analysis until 2060	31
Opportunities and limitations for the introduction of circular economy principles in EU aquaculture based on the regulatory framework	31
Reducing the carbon footprint of ICT products through material efficiency strategies: A life cycle analysis of smartphones	30
Sustainability implications of artificial intelligence in the chemical industry: A conceptual framework	30
Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach	30
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins	30
Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future	30
Aquatic micro‐ and nano‐plastics in life cycle assessment: Development of an effect factor for the quantification of their physical impact on biota	29
Environmental impacts of the future supply of rare earths for magnet applications	29
Three‐dimensional product circularity	28
Does increased circularity lead to environmental sustainability?: The case of washing machine reuse in Germany	27
A critical perspective on uncertainty appraisal and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment	27
A terminology for downcycling	27
Evolution of the anthropogenic chromium cycle in China	27
Shifting expenditure on food, holidays, and furnishings could lower greenhouse gas emissions by almost 40%	26
Marine biomass for a circular blue‐green bioeconomy? A life cycle perspective on closing nitrogen and phosphorus land‐marine loops	25
Calculating the chemical exergy of materials	25
Effects of the energy transition on environmental impacts of cobalt supply: A prospective life cycle assessment study on future supply of cobalt	24
Implementation of uncertainty analysis and moment‐independent global sensitivity analysis for full‐scale life cycle assessment models	23
Futura: A new tool for transparent and shareable scenario analysis in prospective life cycle assessment	23
Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment	23
What effects does material flow cost accounting have for companies?: Evidence from a case studies analysis	22
Life cycle impact assessment methods for estimating the impacts of dissipative flows of metals	22
Contributing to carbon peak: Estimating the causal impact of eco‐industrial parks on low‐carbon development in China	22
Potentials of big data for corporate environmental management: A case study from the German automotive industry	21
Greenhouse gas emissions of Norwegian seafoods: From comprehensive to simplified assessment	20
A scalable data collection, characterization, and accounting framework for urban material stocks	20
Greenhouse gas emissions from the global transportation of crude oil: Current status and mitigation potential	20
Circular economy: A new research field?	20
Rebound effect and sustainability science: A review	20
Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of a Danish utility company relative to the Planetary Boundaries	20
Development of a bridge circularity assessment framework to promote resource efficiency in infrastructure projects	19
Extending urban stocks and flows analysis to urban greenhouse gas emission accounting: A case of Odense, Denmark	19
Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING)	19
Potential CO₂reduction and uptake due to industrialization and efficient cement use in Brazil by 2050	19
3D printing to enable the reuse of marine plastic waste with reduced environmental impacts	19
Tracking the diffusion of industrial symbiosis scholarship using bibliometrics: Comparing across Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar	19
The link between product service lifetime and GHG emissions: A comparative study for different consumer products	19
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	19
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	19
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	18
Design of an endpoint indicator for mineral resource supply risks in life cycle sustainability assessment: The case of Li‐ion batteries	18
Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks	18
The role of socio‐economic material stocks for natural resource use in the United States of America from 1870 to 2100	18
Emissions of electric vehicle charging in future scenarios: The effects of time of charging	18
The evolution of material stock research: From exploring to rising to hot studies	18
Do material efficiency improvements backfire?: Insights from an index decomposition analysis about the link between CO₂emissions and material use for Austria	18
Building feature‐based machine learning regression to quantify urban material stocks: A Hong Kong study	17
A field experiment on workplace norms and electric vehicle charging etiquette	17
International comparison of impurities mixing and accumulation in steel scrap	17

A review of inventory modeling methods for missing data in life cycle assessment	17
Regional consumption, material flows, and their driving forces: A case study of China's Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (Jing–Jin–Ji) urban agglomeration	17
How to handle the policy conflict between resource circulation and hazardous substances in the use of waste?	17
Quantifying longevity and circularity of copper for different resource efficiency policies at the material and product levels	17
Stocks and flows of buildings: Analysis of existing, demolished, and constructed buildings in Tampere, Finland, 2000–2018	17
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of aluminum based on regional industrial transfer in China	16
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains	16
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	16
Life cycle assessment‐based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment is also relative	16
Combining industrial ecology tools to assess potential greenhouse gas reductions of a circular economy: Method development and application to Switzerland	16
Life cycle assessment of an industrial‐scale vanadium flow battery	15
Increasing the energy efficiency of a data center based on machine learning	15
A social life cycle assessment of vanadium redox flow and lithium‐ion batteries for energy storage	15
Modern slavery footprints in global supply chains	15
A data framework for assessing social inequality and equity in multi‐sector social, ecological, infrastructural urban systems: Focus on fine‐spatial scales	14
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency	14
Turning trash into treasure: An approach to the environmental assessment of waste prevention and its application to clothing and furniture in Switzerland	14
A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint	14
The sociometabolic transition of a small Greek island: Assessing stock dynamics, resource flows, and material circularity from 1929 to 2019	14
Exploring machine learning techniques to predict deforestation to enhance the decision‐making of road construction projects	14
Mapping the EU tomato supply chain from farm to fork for greenhouse gas emission mitigation strategies	14
Gender in sustainability research: Inclusion, intersectionality, and patterns of knowledge production	14
Design of concrete: Setting a new basis for improving both durability and environmental performance	14
The role of consumer preferences in reducing material intensity of electronic products	14
Comparing the environmental performance of distributed versus centralized plastic recycling systems: Applying hybrid simulation modeling to life cycle assessment	13
Identifying sectoral impacts on global scarce water uses from multiple perspectives	13
High‐resolution quantification of building stock using multi‐source remote sensing imagery and deep learning	13
Determining the material intensities of buildings selected by random sampling: A case study from Vienna	13
Critical transmission sectors in embodied atmospheric mercury emission network in China	13
Interrelationships between electricity, gas, and water consumption in large‐scale buildings	13
Sector‐specific scenarios for future stocks and flows of aluminum: An analysis based on shared socioeconomic pathways	13
Attributional and consequential life cycle assessments in a circular economy with integration of a quality indicator: A case study of cascading wood products	13
Quantifying urban mass gain and loss by a GIS‐based material stocks and flows analysis	13
The carbon footprint of capital formation: An empirical analysis on its relationship with a country's income growth	13
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	13
Material system analysis: A novel multilayer system approach to correlate EU flows and stocks of Li‐ion batteries and their raw materials	13
Toward the development of subnational hybrid input–output tables in a multiregional framework	13
A core ontology for modeling life cycle sustainability assessment on the Semantic Web	12
Sharing economy rebound: The case of peer‐to‐peer sharing of food waste	12
Characterization factors for ocean acidification impacts on marine biodiversity	12
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component	12
Consumer acceptance of circular business models and potential effects on economic performance: The case of washing machines	12
Life cycle assessment of salinity gradient energy recovery using reverse electrodialysis	12
Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU: An integrated supply chain network optimization and life cycle assessment approach	12
Do sectoral material efficiency improvements add up to greenhouse gas emissions reduction on an economy‐wide level?	11
Assessing the circularity of regions: Stakes of trade of waste for treatment	11
Estimation of entity‐level land use and its application in urban sectoral land use footprint: A bottom‐up model with emerging geospatial data	11
A general framework for stock dynamics of populations and built and natural environments	11
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment	11
Contribution of circular economy strategies to climate change mitigation: Generic assessment methodology with focus on developing countries	11
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	11
Quantifying uncertainty for AWARE characterization factors	11
Developing Regenerate: A circular economy engagement tool for the assessment of new and existing buildings	11
Integrating vehicle‐to‐grid technology into energy system models: Novel methods and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions	11
Quantifying the ecosystem services values of electricity generation in the US Chihuahuan Desert: A life cycle perspective	11
The environmental and material implications of circular transitions: A diffusion and product‐life‐cycle‐based modeling framework	11
Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City	11
Hydrothermal carbonization for sludge disposal in Germany: A comparative assessment for industrial‐scale scenarios in 2030	11
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade	11
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	11
Machine learning‐based stocks and flows modeling of road infrastructure	11
A practice‐based framework for defining functional units in comparative life cycle assessments of materials	11