OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Production and Consumption is 74. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Review of the current knowledge and identified gaps in assessing the social and environmental impacts of mining processes in the Lithium Triangle	288
Linking methodologies to assess climate impacts and circular economy strategies along supply chains	245
Insect production as a novel alternative to livestock farming: Exploring interest and willingness to adopt among German farmers	240
Joint tax-subsidy for a manufacturing-recycling system under further extended producer responsibility	239
Enabling environmental sustainability and circularity assessment in technology development: The Value-Impact Scanner	224
Unpacking the complexity of the UK plastic packaging value chain: A stakeholder perspective	198
Assessing the environmental impacts of rice in an anthropized Mediterranean wetland: Towards carbon farming	196
Walk and chew gum: A demand and supply illustration of macro and micro net-zero initiatives for the automobile industry	172
Rebound effect with energy efficiency determinants: a two-stage analysis of residential electricity consumption in Indonesia	171
Are air travelers willing to pay for mandatory carbon emission policies? Evidence from China	168
Consumer concerns over food insecurity drive reduction in the carbon footprint of food consumption	168
Comparative life cycle assessment of circular and linear product versions for a motorboat and smartphone	167
Food waste and the effects of waste reduction in China's catering industry	160
Farmers' preferences for sustainable farmland construction — Insights from a discrete choice experiment in China	157
What makes consumers willing to pay for carbon taxes–A view of terror management theory	154
Exploring stakeholder collaboration based on the sustainability factors affecting the sharing economy	146
Calculating the true costs of protein sources by integrating environmental costs and market prices	141
One Framework to Rule Them All: An Integrated, Multi-level and Scalable Performance Measurement Framework of Sustainability, Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis	138
A novel grey forecasting of greenhouse gas emissions from four industries of China and India	127
Does Mexico have the agricultural land resources to feed its population with a healthy and sustainable diet?	127
Consumer behavior in circular business models: Unveiling conservation and rebound effects	122
Can consumers understand that there is more to palm oil than deforestation?	121
Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions	120
Optimum operational lifespan of household appliances considering manufacturing and use stage improvements via life cycle assessment	114
Evaluating the environmental and economic sustainability of energy from anaerobic digestion of different feedstocks in Turkey	110

Assessing methods for the production of renewable benzene	110
Technology transition strategies for textile-dyeing sludge management in China from the environmental and economic perspectives	109
Social sustainability indicators: A comprehensive review with application in the energy sector	109
How do circular start-ups achieve scale?	108
Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges	107
The synergistic role of carbon dioxide removal and emission reductions in achieving the Paris Agreement goal	107
Decentralized production concepts for bio-based polymers - implications for supply chains, costs, and the carbon footprint	104
Environmental and economic sustainability of additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review	103
Economic analysis of whole-county PV projects in China considering environmental benefits	103
Unlocking synergies between waste management and climate change mitigation to accelerate decarbonization through circular-economy digitalization in Indonesia	101
Comparative analysis of micro level indicators for evaluating the progress towards a circular economy	100
Quantifying the water-energy-food nexus in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions	99
Diets within planetary boundaries: What is the potential of dietary change alone?	99
An integrated design method for used product remanufacturing scheme considering carbon emission	96
Does energy poverty affect the well-being of people: Evidence from Ghana	96
A life cycle sustainability assessment of organic and conventional pork supply chains in Sweden	96
Perspectives on food waste management: Prevention and social innovations	96
Circular economy disclosure in corporate sustainability reports: The case of European companies in sustainability rankings	95
Environment management policy implementation for sustainable industrial production under power asymmetry in the graph model	94
Water and sludge resource planning for sustainable agriculture: An energy-water-food-waste nexus approach	91
Financial costs and benefits of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification among independent smallholders: A probabilistic view of the Monte Carlo approach	90
Product destruction: Exploring unsustainable production-consumption systems and appropriate policy responses	89
The environmental and economic effects of the carbon emissions trading scheme in China: The role of alternative allowance allocation	88
Combining life cycle assessment and dynamic qualitative comparative analysis to analyze the environmental impacts of urban development across different provinces in China	88
Tourism, institutional quality, and environmental sustainability	86
A composite indicator for evaluating safety and sustainability by design and circularity in emerging technologies	85
Enablers for circular ecosystem transformation: A multi-case study of Brazilian circular ecosystems	85
A risk-based multi-criteria decision-making framework for offshore green hydrogen system developments: Pathways for utilizing existing and new infrastructure	85
Towards suitable practices for the integration of social life cycle assessment into the ecodesign framework of hydrogen-related products	84
A feasibility analysis on adopting electric vehicles in the short food supply chain based on GHG emissions and economic costs estimations	84
Evaluating circular economy strategies for raw material recovery from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries: A system dynamics model	83
Reducing the environmental impacts of the production of melamine etherified resin fibre	82
Techno-economic assessment of co-pyrolyzed kitchen waste and rice straw for co-generation of heat and power	82
Sustainable process synthesis, design, and analysis: Challenges and opportunities	82
Acknowledgement of reviewers 2021	81
Conceptualizing circular economy policy instruments: The case of recycled content standards	80
Digitalizing shopping routines: Re-organizing household practices to enable sustainable food provisioning	80
Optimal design of the ecological compensation mechanism in transboundary river basins under the Belt and Road Initiative	80
Energy transition pathways for the Nigerian Road Transport: Implication for energy carrier, Powertrain technology, and CO2 emission	80
A systematic literature review on circularity assessment indicators and frameworks in the built environment	79
Reforming plastic packaging regulation: Outcomes from stakeholder interviews and regulatory analysis	79
Integrating nutrition into environmental impact assessments reveals limited sustainable food options within planetary boundaries	79
How to reduce overpackaging of food in China: Analysis based on evolutionary game	78
Prosumerism for sustainability	78
A review of LED lamp recycling process from the 10 R strategy perspective	76
Balancing photovoltaic development and cropland protection: Assessing agrivoltaic potential in China	76
Micro-level quantification of determinants of eco-innovation adoption: An assessment of sustainable practices for cotton production in Pakistan	75
Do environmental and cleaner production practices lead to circular and sustainability performance? Evidence from Colombian manufacturing firms	75
Socio-techno-economic assessment to design an appropriate renewable energy system for remote agricultural communities in developing countries	74
Optimization of food-fuel-fibre in biorefinery based on environmental and economic assessment: The case of sugarcane utilization in Thailand	74

The EU Bioeconomy Footprint: Using life cycle assessment to monitor environmental impacts of the EU Bioeconomy	74
Climate change impact of food distribution: The case of reverse logistics for bread in Sweden	74