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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	69
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Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK	62
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure	58
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions	56
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	56
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing	53
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	50
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	50
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa	48
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites	47
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	47
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods	43
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)	43
Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process	40
Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock	39
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries	38
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	38
Measuring the “side effects” of tungsten recycling: Evidence from life cycle assessment	37
Regional analysis of aluminum and steel flows into the American automotive industry	37
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency	36
Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods	36
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export	35
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition	35
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model	34

A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps	33
Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	32
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	32
Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis	32
Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators	30
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)	30
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland	29
Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study	28
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Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry	27
Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?	27
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Assessing resource efficiency in Vietnam: Insights from material stock and flow indicators	26
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment	26
Environmental assessment of discarded plastic caps as a honeycomb core: An eco‐mechanical perspective	25
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy	25
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach	25
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases	25
The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China	24
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry	24
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade	23
Forecasting heterogeneous risk diffusion in the carbon neutral integrated energy system: A case study of China	23
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	22
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments	22
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models	22
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis	22
Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes	22
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	21
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens	21
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	21
Corrigendum to Wietschel et al. (2021). Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU. Journal of Industrial Ecology 25(3): 677–692	21
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology	21
What would it take to establish a take‐back scheme for fishing gear? Insights from a comparative analysis of fishing gear and beverage containers	21
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	21
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union	20
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies	20
PIOT‐Hub ‐ A collaborative cloud tool for generation of physical input–output tables using mechanistic engineering models	20
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	20
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability	20
Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India	20
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach	20
Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–2021	19
Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings	19
Whole‐process and multi‐stakeholder‐based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development	19
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities	19
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda	19
A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory	19
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins	18
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	18

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Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains	17
How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?	17
Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method	17
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries	17
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component	17
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States	16
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing	16
Cycling and reciprocity in weighted food webs and economic networks	16
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology	16
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?	16
Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution	15
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles	15
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application	15
A terminology for downcycling	15
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda	15
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	15
Embedding circularity in the water supply chain: A circularity indicator dashboard for water	15
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	15
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)	15
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling	14
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	14
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments	14
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution	14
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE	13
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States	13
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	13
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis	13
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators	13
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China	13
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions	13
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam	13
“When we got divorced, I left all my things behind.”: How the lifespan of household goods is linked to the biographical trajectory of their owners	13
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	13
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	13
Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability	12
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An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe	12
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing	12
Materials footprint of household consumption in China	12
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Life cycle assessment of CO₂ conversion and storage in metal–CO₂ electrochemical cells	12
Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study	12
Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge	12
Stand‐alone power‐to‐X production dynamics: A multi‐method approach to quantify the emission‐cost reduction trade‐off	12
Mapping nationwide material stock turnover: High‐resolution spatial analysis of building material stock and flow patterns across Japan 2003–2020	12
Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives	12
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Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts	12
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts	12
Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead	12
System dynamics modeling of the global nickel supply system at a mine‐level resolution: Toward prospective dynamic criticality and resilience data	12
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors	12
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains	12
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle	12
Life cycle assessment of insulated fish transport systems in India	12
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development	11
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 2	11
Circular economy: A new research field?	11
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward	11
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Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway	11
The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective	11
Non‐implementation as a driver of circular economy evolution: A Luhmannian systems‐theoretical perspective	11
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	11
The PIOLab: Building global physical input–output tables in a virtual laboratory	11
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data	11
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany	11
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	11
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus	11