OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 29. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of energy consumption of alumina production in the environmental impacts using life cycle assessment	111
Making the use of scenarios in LCA easier: the superstructure approach	101
Comparative sustainability assessment of lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and all-solid-state traction batteries	95
Carbon footprint and embodied energy of a wind turbine blade—a case study	86
Step-by-step social life cycle assessment framework: a participatory approach for the identification and prioritization of impact subcategories applied to mobility scenarios	85
Reducing cooling load and lifecycle cost for residential buildings: a case of Lahore, Pakistan	80
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon	77
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors	71
Can the commercial cultivation of wild edible species contribute to sustainable food production? A case study of golden thistle (Scolymus hispanicus L.)	61
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical packaging	60
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives	59
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	51
Assessment of waste-integrated concrete products: a cradle-to-cradle perspective	49
Biologically based net energy allocation procedures can improve carbon footprint analysis in milk production systems	49
Physicochemical reaction-based allocation for the resource consumption of hydrometallurgical processing of rare-earth oxides—a case study on ion adsorption-type rare-earth oxides in China	40
Characterizing the impacts of highway pavement in a newly planned greater bay area economic belt in China	40
Mitigating carbon emissions in the taxi service industry: a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of batteries for electric taxis and identification of a greener vehicle fleet	38
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community	37
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment	37
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach	37
Comparison of reusable and single-use specula in Belgian hospitals: an environmental life cycle assessment and economic analysis	36
Development of a collision impact indicator to integrate in the life cycle assessment of offshore wind farms	36
Exploring sustainability potentials in vineyards through LCA? Evidence from farming practices in South Africa	35
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing	35
Analysis and remediation of the confusing specification of the lognormal distribution	33

Sustainability improvement in complex systems composed of products and services	32
Synergies and challenges of bottom-up and top-down approaches for assessing social impacts in mining operation	32
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin	31
Correction to: Waste is not a service	31
Agrifood systems transformation for climate action and environmental improvements, with co-benefits for food security and nutrition	29