OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Ecology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	87
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods	85
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa	82
Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock	78
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	63
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)	61
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites	59
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK	54
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	53
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing	50
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	49
A critical comparative review of comprehensive evaluation for typical industrial waste gas treatment process: case study for coke oven gas and sintering flue gas	48
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure	47
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	45
Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process	44
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model	43
A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps	40
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries	39
Measuring the “side effects” of tungsten recycling: Evidence from life cycle assessment	38
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	38
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition	34
Quo vadis MFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency	33
Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?	33
Will technological innovation across carbon neutrality timelines increase asset stranding risks in China’s carbon-intensive sectors?	33

A political industrial ecology of water in Bodh Gaya, India: Pre‐ and Post‐the World Heritage designation	33
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	32
Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry	32
Reuse in dynamic life cycle assessment at building scale: A Swiss case	32
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland	32
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Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	30
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Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators	29
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Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study	29
Behavioral interventions steering CO2-optimal electric vehicle charging: Evidence from a BMW field experiment in the Netherlands	29
Risk-adaptive planning for power system decarbonization: quantifying internal and external trade-offs based on a dual-triangle framework	28
Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States	28
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)	28
Assessing resource efficiency in Vietnam: Insights from material stock and flow indicators	28
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach	27
Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes	27
Forecasting heterogeneous risk diffusion in the carbon neutral integrated energy system: A case study of China	27
The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China	27
Industrial symbiosis in the wine value chain: a systematic review of research trends, barriers, and drivers	26
Evaluating a greener tax system in Chile through a dynamic CGE model and microsimulation at the firm level	26
What would it take to establish a take‐back scheme for fishing gear? Insights from a comparative analysis of fishing gear and beverage containers	26
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models	26
An open-source regionalization approach for subnational EEMRIO insights and proof-of-concept application to EU steel circularity	26
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	26
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis	25
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	25
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry	25
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments	25
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy	24
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases	24
How has urban metabolism research contributed to urban resilience? A conceptual review of practices	23
Is academia addressing relevant questions to support a circularity transition in Latin America and the Caribbean?	23
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	23
Carbon intensity disclosure and corporate credit spreads	23
Christopher Kennedy's 'Malthus Enigma: technology, science and policy for a fragile Earth'	23
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach	22
From variance to value: Stabilizing circular exchanges in industrial symbiosis networks	22
Supporting repairability analysis through graph-based visualisation	21
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology	21
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union	21
Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method	21
Critical analysis of the path-exchange method for hybrid life cycle assessment	21
Quantifying tire wear particle dynamics: insights from a hydrological-based material flow analysis in urban watersheds	21
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies	21
A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory	21
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability	21
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens	21
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	21

Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India	20
Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings	20
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda	20
Whole‐process and multi‐stakeholder‐based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development	20
JIE Reviewers 2025	19
Environmental trade-offs from renewable energy adoption in chile’s copper production: a life cycle assessment	19
Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–2021	19
Nuclear power’s contribution to UAE’s decarbonization pathways: a lifecycle assessment perspective	19
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities	19
How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?	18
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing	18
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries	18
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States	18
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)	18
Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains	18
Embedding circularity in the water supply chain: A circularity indicator dashboard for water	18
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?	18
Regioinvent: a regionalized version of ecoinvent integrating detailed trade data	18
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology	18
Circular economy in India’s tire sector: material flow analysis and review of end-of-life management strategies	18
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	17
Forecasting sustainability implications of material innovations: Lessons from an illustrative case study on photochromic textiles	17
Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution	17
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A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	16
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	16
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments	16
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators	16
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam	16
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China	16
A prospective circular economy future with intelligent AI-driven metals end-of-life processing	16
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	16
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling	16
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda	16
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application	16
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Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	15
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles	15
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE	15
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution	15
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States	15
End-of-life vehicle management research: insights from the literature and relevance for India	15
Bridging industry 5.0 and circular economy in Indian SMEs: an integrated ML–MCDM framework to prioritize cross-sectoral barriers and enablers	15
Time as a structural barrier for a circular economy	14
Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead	14
Mapping nationwide material stock turnover: High‐resolution spatial analysis of building material stock and flow patterns across Japan 2003–2020	14
Stand‐alone power‐to‐X production dynamics: A multi‐method approach to quantify the emission‐cost reduction trade‐off	14
System dynamics modeling of the global nickel supply system at a mine‐level resolution: Toward prospective dynamic criticality and resilience data	14
Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge	14
Assessing the influence of flexible design on environmental sustainability assessment results – a case study from timber housing	14
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis	14
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Materials footprint of household consumption in China	14
Aligning lithium‐ion battery durability with consumer needs: A data‐driven analysis of consumption behavior	14
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing	13
Advancing absolute environmental sustainability assessment: Introducing the first technical guidance and a call for feedback	13
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts	13
Is circularity going to shrink the global economy? Theoretically, yes	13
Trends in global trade-embodied employment: analysis on economies, sectors, and benefit	13
Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives	13
Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability	13
Toward systemic and bio-inspired evaluation: a comprehensive matrix framework for assessing circularity and sustainability	13
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus	13
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors	13
Energy efficiency and decarbonisation pathways for Australian public hospitals	13
Ecosystem initiation: a key policy challenge for circular economy transition	12
Life cycle assessment of insulated fish transport systems in India	12
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle	12
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development	12
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data	12
Non‐implementation as a driver of circular economy evolution: A Luhmannian systems‐theoretical perspective	12
The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective	12
Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway	12
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	12
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Modeling critical raw materials in electric micromobility batteries in Finland	12
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany	12
Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts	12