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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Critiques of the circular economy	260
Toward a cell‐chemistry specific life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion battery recycling processes	138
Corporate carbon performance data: Quo vadis?	87
LC‐IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method	82
Whole‐life embodied carbon in multistory buildings: Steel, concrete and timber structures	79
Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data	74
Techno‐economic assessment and comparison of different plastic recycling pathways: A German case study	72
Life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion battery recycling using pyrometallurgical technologies	72
Three‐scope carbon emission inventories of global cities	64
Methodological review and detailed guidance for the life cycle interpretation phase	62
Critical review of global plastics stock and flow data	53
Sharing the safe operating space: Exploring ethical allocation principles to operationalize the planetary boundaries and assess absolute sustainability at individual and industrial sector levels	52
Circular economy framework for automobiles: Closing energy and material loops	43
Circular value creation architectures: Make, ally, buy, or laissez‐faire	43
Temporal analysis of the material flows and embodied greenhouse gas emissions of a neighborhood building stock	42
The relationship between environmental performance and environmental disclosure: A meta‐analysis	41
Closed‐loop sustainable product design for circular economy	39
Emission reduction potentials for academic conference travel	39
Decarbonizing the cementitious materials cycle: A whole‐systems review of measures to decarbonize the cement supply chain in the UK and European contexts	37
Barriers to the circular economy: The case of the Dutch technical and interior textiles industries	35
The evolution of consumer electronic waste in the United States	35
Is life cycle assessment enough to address unintended side effects from Circular Economy initiatives?	35
Global material flow analysis of glass: From raw materials to end of life	33
A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling	33
Material efficiency and climate change mitigation of passenger vehicles	32

Linking service provision to material cycles: A new framework for studying the resource efficiency–climate change (RECC) nexus	31
Implications of the distribution of German household environmental footprints across income groups for integrating environmental and social policy design	31
Orchestrating cradle‐to‐cradle innovation across the value chain: Overcoming barriers through innovation communities, collaboration mechanisms, and intermediation	31
Material efficiency and its contribution to climate change mitigation in Germany: A deep decarbonization scenario analysis until 2060	31
Circular economy finance: Clear winner or risky proposition?	31
Rethinking environmental LCA life stages for transport infrastructure to facilitate holistic assessment	30
A systematic approach to assess the environmental impact of emerging technologies: A case study for the GHG footprint of CIGS solar photovoltaic laminate	30
Environmental impact assessment of plasma‐assisted and conventional ammonia synthesis routes	29
Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future	28
Emission reduction strategies in the EU steel industry: Implications for business model innovation	28
Urban development and sustainability challenges chronicled by a century of construction material flows and stocks in Tiexi, China	27
Static material flow analysis of neodymium in China	26
Reducing the carbon footprint of ICT products through material efficiency strategies: A life cycle analysis of smartphones	26
Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach	26
Regional circular economy of building materials: Environmental and economic assessment combining Material Flow Analysis, Input‐Output Analyses, and Life Cycle Assessment	25
Environmental impacts of the future supply of rare earths for magnet applications	25
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins	25
Evolution of the anthropogenic chromium cycle in China	25
Material stock development of the transport sector in the city of Vienna	24
Toward a life cycle inventory for graphite production	24
Do we have enough natural sand for low‐carbon infrastructure?	24
Opportunities and limitations for the introduction of circular economy principles in EU aquaculture based on the regulatory framework	23
Calculating the chemical exergy of materials	23
Shifting expenditure on food, holidays, and furnishings could lower greenhouse gas emissions by almost 40%	23
Is the beneficial use of wood ash environmentally beneficial? A screening‐level life cycle assessment and uncertainty analysis	22
Does increased circularity lead to environmental sustainability?: The case of washing machine reuse in Germany	22
A critical perspective on uncertainty appraisal and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment	22
Ecological network analysis of urban–industrial ecosystems	22
Material intensity database for the Dutch building stock: Towards Big Data in material stock analysis	22
The carbon footprint of foreign multinationals within the European Union	22
Wastewater treatment system optimization with an industrial symbiosis model: A case study of a Chinese eco‐industrial park	22
Sustainability implications of artificial intelligence in the chemical industry: A conceptual framework	21
Subnational greenhouse gas and land‐based biodiversity footprints in the European Union	21
Effects of the energy transition on environmental impacts of cobalt supply: A prospective life cycle assessment study on future supply of cobalt	21
Potentials of big data for corporate environmental management: A case study from the German automotive industry	20
Aquatic micro‐ and nano‐plastics in life cycle assessment: Development of an effect factor for the quantification of their physical impact on biota	20
Implementation of uncertainty analysis and moment‐independent global sensitivity analysis for full‐scale life cycle assessment models	20
Three‐dimensional product circularity	20
Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of a Danish utility company relative to the Planetary Boundaries	19
Marine biomass for a circular blue‐green bioeconomy? A life cycle perspective on closing nitrogen and phosphorus land‐marine loops	19
Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment	19
Irrigation technology and water rebound in China's agricultural sector	19
Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy	19
Futura: A new tool for transparent and shareable scenario analysis in prospective life cycle assessment	18
Contributing to carbon peak: Estimating the causal impact of eco‐industrial parks on low‐carbon development in China	18
The use of steel in the United Kingdom's transport sector: A stock–flow–service nexus case study	17
Do material efficiency improvements backfire?: Insights from an index decomposition analysis about the link between CO₂emissions and material use for Austria	17
The link between product service lifetime and GHG emissions: A comparative study for different consumer products	17
Tracking the diffusion of industrial symbiosis scholarship using bibliometrics: Comparing across Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar	17
Life cycle impact assessment methods for estimating the impacts of dissipative flows of metals	17

Development of a bridge circularity assessment framework to promote resource efficiency in infrastructure projects	17
Diffusion of labor standards through supplier–subcontractor networks: An agent‐based model	17
Potential CO₂reduction and uptake due to industrialization and efficient cement use in Brazil by 2050	17
Greenhouse gas emissions of Norwegian seafoods: From comprehensive to simplified assessment	16
A field experiment on workplace norms and electric vehicle charging etiquette	16
Economic aspirations connected to innovations in carbon capture and utilization value chains	16
Quantifying environmental impacts of primary aluminum ingot production and consumption: A trade‐linked multilevel life cycle assessment	16
Stocks and flows of buildings: Analysis of existing, demolished, and constructed buildings in Tampere, Finland, 2000–2018	16
How to handle the policy conflict between resource circulation and hazardous substances in the use of waste?	16
Design of an endpoint indicator for mineral resource supply risks in life cycle sustainability assessment: The case of Li‐ion batteries	16
Emissions of electric vehicle charging in future scenarios: The effects of time of charging	15
Rebound effect and sustainability science: A review	15
3D printing to enable the reuse of marine plastic waste with reduced environmental impacts	15
What effects does material flow cost accounting have for companies?: Evidence from a case studies analysis	15
Quantifying longevity and circularity of copper for different resource efficiency policies at the material and product levels	15
Greenhouse gas emissions from the global transportation of crude oil: Current status and mitigation potential	15
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	14
A terminology for downcycling	14
Monitoring domestic material consumption at lower territorial levels: A novel data downscaling method	14
Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of aluminum based on regional industrial transfer in China	14
Regional consumption, material flows, and their driving forces: A case study of China's Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (Jing–Jin–Ji) urban agglomeration	14
Making use of life cycle assessment and environmental product declarations: A survey with practitioners	14
A scalable data collection, characterization, and accounting framework for urban material stocks	14
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	13
Gender in sustainability research: Inclusion, intersectionality, and patterns of knowledge production	13
The role of consumer preferences in reducing material intensity of electronic products	13
Mapping the EU tomato supply chain from farm to fork for greenhouse gas emission mitigation strategies	13
The role of socio‐economic material stocks for natural resource use in the United States of America from 1870 to 2100	13
Material system analysis: A novel multilayer system approach to correlate EU flows and stocks of Li‐ion batteries and their raw materials	13
Design of concrete: Setting a new basis for improving both durability and environmental performance	13
Modern slavery footprints in global supply chains	13
Extending urban stocks and flows analysis to urban greenhouse gas emission accounting: A case of Odense, Denmark	13
Life cycle assessment‐based Absolute Environmental Sustainability Assessment is also relative	13
A review of inventory modeling methods for missing data in life cycle assessment	13
Life cycle assessment of an industrial‐scale vanadium flow battery	12
Interrelationships between electricity, gas, and water consumption in large‐scale buildings	12
Attributional and consequential life cycle assessments in a circular economy with integration of a quality indicator: A case study of cascading wood products	12
Critical transmission sectors in embodied atmospheric mercury emission network in China	12
Quantifying urban mass gain and loss by a GIS‐based material stocks and flows analysis	12
International comparison of impurities mixing and accumulation in steel scrap	12
The sociometabolic transition of a small Greek island: Assessing stock dynamics, resource flows, and material circularity from 1929 to 2019	12
Full‐scale, near real‐time multi‐regional input–output table for the global emerging economies (EMERGING)	12
Comparing the environmental performance of distributed versus centralized plastic recycling systems: Applying hybrid simulation modeling to life cycle assessment	12
Identifying sectoral impacts on global scarce water uses from multiple perspectives	12
Towards a multiscale framework for modeling and improving the life cycle environmental performance of built stocks	12
Advancing urban metabolism studies through GIS data: Resource flows, open space networks, and vulnerable communities in Mexico City	11
Increasing the energy efficiency of a data center based on machine learning	11
Packaging environmental impact on seafood supply chains: A review of life cycle assessment studies	11
Turning trash into treasure: An approach to the environmental assessment of waste prevention and its application to clothing and furniture in Switzerland	11
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	11
The evolution of material stock research: From exploring to rising to hot studies	11