OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Production and Consumption is 70. 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
Economic analysis of whole-county PV projects in China considering environmental benefits	394
Walk and chew gum: A demand and supply illustration of macro and micro net-zero initiatives for the automobile industry	296
Comparative life cycle assessment of circular and linear product versions for a motorboat and smartphone	289
An integrated design method for used product remanufacturing scheme considering carbon emission	210
Technology transition strategies for textile-dyeing sludge management in China from the environmental and economic perspectives	193
Decentralized production concepts for bio-based polymers - implications for supply chains, costs, and the carbon footprint	184
Optimum operational lifespan of household appliances considering manufacturing and use stage improvements via life cycle assessment	180
Insect production as a novel alternative to livestock farming: Exploring interest and willingness to adopt among German farmers	178
Can consumers understand that there is more to palm oil than deforestation?	175
Are air travelers willing to pay for mandatory carbon emission policies? Evidence from China	173
Water and sludge resource planning for sustainable agriculture: An energy-water-food-waste nexus approach	172
Consumer behavior in circular business models: Unveiling conservation and rebound effects	162
Evaluating the environmental and economic sustainability of energy from anaerobic digestion of different feedstocks in Turkey	160
Food waste and the effects of waste reduction in China's catering industry	150
Review of the current knowledge and identified gaps in assessing the social and environmental impacts of mining processes in the Lithium Triangle	142
Linking methodologies to assess climate impacts and circular economy strategies along supply chains	135
Enabling environmental sustainability and circularity assessment in technology development: The Value-Impact Scanner	134
Beyond the life cycle: assessing business models for the circular economy through life-cycle-based methodologies	129
Does Mexico have the agricultural land resources to feed its population with a healthy and sustainable diet?	125
Consumer concerns over food insecurity drive reduction in the carbon footprint of food consumption	124
Assessing methods for the production of renewable benzene	124
Multinational enterprises mitigate carbon inequality across Chinese cities	123
How do circular start-ups achieve scale?	121
Calculating the true costs of protein sources by integrating environmental costs and market prices	118
The synergistic role of carbon dioxide removal and emission reductions in achieving the Paris Agreement goal	116

Unlocking synergies between waste management and climate change mitigation to accelerate decarbonization through circular-economy digitalization in Indonesia	115
Farmers' preferences for sustainable farmland construction — Insights from a discrete choice experiment in China	115
Circular economy disclosure in corporate sustainability reports: The case of European companies in sustainability rankings	111
Assessing the environmental impacts of rice in an anthropized Mediterranean wetland: Towards carbon farming	109
One Framework to Rule Them All: An Integrated, Multi-level and Scalable Performance Measurement Framework of Sustainability, Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis	105
Environmental and economic sustainability of additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review	104
Comparative analysis of micro level indicators for evaluating the progress towards a circular economy	104
Product destruction: Exploring unsustainable production-consumption systems and appropriate policy responses	101
Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions	100
Evaluating circular economy strategies for raw material recovery from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries: A system dynamics model	99
Climate change impact of food distribution: The case of reverse logistics for bread in Sweden	98
The EU Bioeconomy Footprint: Using life cycle assessment to monitor environmental impacts of the EU Bioeconomy	95
Combining life cycle assessment and dynamic qualitative comparative analysis to analyze the environmental impacts of urban development across different provinces in China	94
Do environmental and cleaner production practices lead to circular and sustainability performance? Evidence from Colombian manufacturing firms	94
Biogas and biohydrogen for net zero cooking and transportation in Bhutan	94
A parametric LCA platform for modelling environmental impacts in plant protein processing: Application to pea, soy, and wheat protein isolates and concentrates	94
A feasibility analysis on adopting electric vehicles in the short food supply chain based on GHG emissions and economic costs estimations	92
Temporal dynamic assessment of household energy consumption and carbon emissions in China: From the perspective of occupants	89
Multi-stakeholder perspectives on sustainability transitions in the cosmetic industry	88
Towards suitable practices for the integration of social life cycle assessment into the ecodesign framework of hydrogen-related products	88
A systematic literature review on circularity assessment indicators and frameworks in the built environment	88
A composite indicator for evaluating safety and sustainability by design and circularity in emerging technologies	87
Social sustainability of communities: A systematic literature review	86
A risk-based multi-criteria decision-making framework for offshore green hydrogen system developments: Pathways for utilizing existing and new infrastructure	84
Quantifying circular economy pathways of decommissioned onshore wind turbines: The case of Denmark and Germany	83
Energy transition pathways for the Nigerian Road Transport: Implication for energy carrier, Powertrain technology, and CO2 emission	80
Prosumerism for sustainability	80
Coupling the digital twin technology and life cycle assessment: Carbon dioxide emissions from polysilicon production	79
Reforming plastic packaging regulation: Outcomes from stakeholder interviews and regulatory analysis	78
Techno-economic assessment of co-pyrolyzed kitchen waste and rice straw for co-generation of heat and power	78
The impact of the circular economy on sustainable development: A European panel data approach	78
Circular economy strategies as enablers for solar PV adoption in organizational market segments	77
Integrating ex-ante and prospective life-cycle assessment for advancing the environmental impact analysis of emerging bio-based technologies	77
Conceptualizing circular economy policy instruments: The case of recycled content standards	77
Optimal design of the ecological compensation mechanism in transboundary river basins under the Belt and Road Initiative	77
Current status of agrivoltaic systems and their benefits to energy, food, environment, economy, and society	76
Integrating nutrition into environmental impact assessments reveals limited sustainable food options within planetary boundaries	75
Enablers for circular ecosystem transformation: A multi-case study of Brazilian circular ecosystems	75
Optimization of food-fuel-fibre in biorefinery based on environmental and economic assessment: The case of sugarcane utilization in Thailand	74
Balancing photovoltaic development and cropland protection: Assessing agrivoltaic potential in China	74
Operationalizing telecoupling through territorial life cycle assessment: Environmental evaluation of international agricultural supply chains	73
A sustainability analysis for a circular power-to-liquid process for diesel production	72
Environmental performance of three innovative leather production processes using less chromium and water	72
Corrigendum to “Environmental performance of different sorbents used for direct air capture” [Sustain. Prod. Consum. 32 (2022) 101–111]	70
The economic catch-up of developing countries has mitigated inter-country carbon inequality	70
Introducing a new method to assess the benefits of resources recovered from wastewater to the natural environment	70