OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Ecology is 10. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Sustainability transitions require an understanding of smaller cities	409
Life cycle assessment of in‐person, virtual, and hybrid academic conferences: New evidence and perspectives	99
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application	94
Biodiversity impact assessment for finance	90
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)	68
Machine‐learning‐based demand forecasting against food waste: Life cycle environmental impacts and benefits of a bakery case study	65
Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution	57
Life cycle assessment on the reuse and recycling of the nickel‐metal hydride battery: Fleet‐based study on hybrid vehicle batteries from Japan	47
Material flows and embodied energy of direct air capture: A cradle‐to‐gate inventory of selected technologies	47
From carbon neutral to climate neutral: Dynamic life cycle assessment for wood‐based panels produced in China	44
Is life cycle assessment enough to address unintended side effects from Circular Economy initiatives?	43
A terminology for downcycling	43
Estimating carbon footprints from large scale financial transaction data	41
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Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States	37
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Linking socio‐economic metabolism models and simulation games: Reflections on benefits and challenges	34
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JIE 2023 reviewers	32
Life cycle assessment of an industrial‐scale vanadium flow battery	31
Can a small island nation build resilience? The significance of resource‐use patterns and socio‐metabolic risks in The Bahamas	31
Life cycle assessment of prospective trajectories: A parametric approach for tailor‐made inventories and its computational implementation	31
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Impacts of electric vehicles on the European high and extra high voltage power grid	29
A practice‐based framework for defining functional units in comparative life cycle assessments of materials	29
Substitution modeling can coherently be used in attributional life cycle assessments	28
Green batteries for clean skies: Sustainability assessment of lithium‐sulfur all‐solid‐state batteries for electric aircraft	28
The evolution of biomass flows in Bangladesh (1961–2019): Providing insights for Bangladesh's transition to a sustainable circular bioeconomy	28
Economic and environmental assessment of automotive plastic waste end‐of‐life options: Energy recovery versus chemical recycling	28
Estimating stocks and flows of electric passenger vehicle batteries in the Norwegian fleet from 2011 to 2030	27
Identifying methodological challenges in the social risk assessment of cellulosic ethanol value chains	27
Industrial ecology for the oceans	27
JIE 2022 reviewers	27
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	26
Contributions of extended batch tests for assessing technical recyclability: A case study of low‐value battery flows	25
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	25
A product–component framework for modeling stock dynamics and its application for electric vehicles and lithium‐ion batteries	24
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Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	23
Cycling and reciprocity in weighted food webs and economic networks	23
Embed systemic equity throughout industrial ecology applications: How to address machine learning unfairness and bias	22
Opening the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: Environmental performance of shell jacket reuse	22
Implementing industrial and territorial ecology: The role of proximity and intermediaries in three French case studies	22
Comparative life cycle assessment of graphitic carbon nitride synthesis routes	22
From extraction to end‐uses and waste management: Modeling economy‐wide material cycles and stock dynamics around the world	21
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa	20
Examining global biodiversity accounts: Implications of aggregating characterization factors from elementary flows in multi‐regional input–output analysis	20
Assessment of carbon emissions and reduction potential in China's copper smelting industry	20
Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks	20
Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process	20
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Prospective life cycle assessment of climate and biodiversity impacts of meat‐based and plant‐forward meals: A case study of Indonesian and German meal options	20
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Exploring the effect of Guarantees of Origin on the decarbonization of corporate electricity procurement: A case study of Germany and Norway	19
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology	19
Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock	19
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda	19
Scenario analysis of supply‐ and demand‐side solutions for circular economy and climate change mitigation in the global building sector	19
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure	18
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing	18
Quantifying the life cycle environmental impacts of water pollution control in a typical chemical industrial park in China	18
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK	18
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Returnable packaging systems and store operations: Processes, costs, and benefits	18
Using dynamic life cycle assessment to evaluate the effects of industry digitalization: A steel case study	17
Book review of Materials and dematerialization: Making the modern world by VaclavSmil, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, $37.50. ISBN: 1394181205	17
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions	17
Evaluating strategies to increase PET bottle recycling in the United States	17
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites	17
Network energy use not directly proportional to data volume: The power model approach for more reliable network energy consumption calculations	17
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods	17

Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future	16
Spatial patterns of built structures co‐determine nations’ level of resource demand	16
Material intensity database for the Dutch building stock: Towards Big Data in material stock analysis	15
The evolution of research at the intersection of industrial ecology and artificial intelligence	15
Substitution impacts of wood‐based textile fibers: Influence of market assumptions	15
Critiques of the circular economy	15
Stocks and flows of buildings: Analysis of existing, demolished, and constructed buildings in Tampere, Finland, 2000–2018	14
Total environmental impacts of Japanese material production	14
Whole‐life embodied carbon in multistory buildings: Steel, concrete and timber structures	14
A review of system dynamics modeling for the sustainability assessment of biorefineries	14
Co‐benefits analysis of industrial symbiosis in China's key industries: Case of steel, cement, and power industries	14
Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING)	14
Quantifying urban mass gain and loss by a GIS‐based material stocks and flows analysis	14
Boosting circular economy solutions in the construction sector using a life cycle assessment	14
Product repair in a circular economy: Exploring public repair behavior from a systems perspective	14
Thermodynamic rarity of electrical and electronic waste: Assessment and policy implications for critical materials	13
Sustainability implications of artificial intelligence in the chemical industry: A conceptual framework	13
Contribution of circular economy strategies to climate change mitigation: Generic assessment methodology with focus on developing countries	13
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing	13
Exploring the emergence of waste recovery and exchange in industrial clusters	13
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	13
Life cycle assessment of an ecological living module equipped with conventional rooftop or integrated concentrating photovoltaics	13
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	13
Critical transmission sectors in embodied atmospheric mercury emission network in China	13
Turning trash into treasure: An approach to the environmental assessment of waste prevention and its application to clothing and furniture in Switzerland	12
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling	12
Life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion battery recycling using pyrometallurgical technologies	12
Image‐based prediction of residential building attributes with deep learning	12
Streamlined benefit analysis of products based on the Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating the voice of society into life cycle sustainability assessment	12
Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy	12
Toward a life cycle inventory for graphite production	12
Material system analysis: Characterization of flows, stocks, and performance indicators of manganese, nickel, and natural graphite in the EU, 2012–2016	12
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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	11
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	11
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE	11
Integration of future water scarcity and electricity supply into prospective LCA: Application to the assessment of water desalination for the steel industry	11
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Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods	11
Characterizing manufacturing wastewater in the United States for the purpose of analyzing energy requirements for reuse	11
Changes in the environmental impacts of the waste management system after implementing the waste‐sorting policy: A Beijing case study	11
Bottom‐up estimation of material stocks and flows in Toronto's road network	11
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Regional transformation pathways for the bioeconomy: A novel monitoring approach for complex transitions	11
A bottom‐up modeling of metabolism of the residential building system in China toward 2050	11
Quantifying environmental impacts of cleaner fish used as sea lice treatments in salmon aquaculture with life cycle assessment	10
Global environmental and socio‐economic impacts of a transition to a circular economy in metal and electrical products: A Dutch case study	10
Domestic water versus imported virtual blue water for agricultural production: A comparison based on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions	10
Effects of European emissions trading on the transformation of primary steelmaking: Assessment of economic and climate impacts in a case study from Germany	10
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export	10
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Does it pay to be science‐based green? The impact of science‐based emission‐reduction targets on corporate financial performance	10
Circular life cycle sustainability assessment: An integrated framework	10
High‐resolution mapping of 33 years of material stock and population growth in Germany using Earth Observation data	10
A transitions framework for circular business models	10
Avoiding investment in fossil fuel assets	10
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	10
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	10
Winners of the 2021 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes	10
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam	10
“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	10
Environmental performance of eco‐design strategies applied to the building sector	10
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments	10
Designing circular economy strategies in distributed generation for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises using Monte Carlo simulation	10
A scalable data collection, characterization, and accounting framework for urban material stocks	10
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles	10
Quantifying longevity and circularity of copper for different resource efficiency policies at the material and product levels	10
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A social life cycle assessment of vanadium redox flow and lithium‐ion batteries for energy storage	10