OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 33. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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	219
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity	118
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	116
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community	88
Characterization factors for freshwater ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals	82
From corporate greenhouse gas inventories to design-relevant LCAs: an integrated framework for industrial decarbonization	80
Parametrization to solve the issue of correlation in uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment	77
Assessing biodiversity impacts of buildings: an evaluation of building elements and limitations in current assessment methods	71
Is laser-induced graphene (LIG) environmentally sustainable? Laboratory-scale life cycle assessment of LIG from petroleum- and bio-derived precursors	69
Environmental impact of rocoto chili pepper production: integrated assessment of yield, bioactive composition, and environmental footprint	63
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives	61
Carbon footprint analysis of waste plastic-to-fuel pyrolysis: implications of feedstock composition and processing conditions	60
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco	59
Social life cycle assessment of integrated municipal solid waste management scenarios: a case study of Pakistan	53
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	51
Mapping the landscape of life cycle sustainability assessments in Canadian agri-food systems: food commodity trends, gaps, and pathways to net-zero	50
How differentiating design strategies across building components lead to maximum reduction of adverse environmental impacts	50
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification	48
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment	48
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	47
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment	46
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank	45
Social organizational life cycle assessment of wire arc additive manufacturing: a case study of a Belgian company	44
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage	41
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products	40

What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?	39
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems	39
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production	39
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells	38
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting	37
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization	36
Life cycle and critical raw material analysis of shared e-scooters in Helsinki, Finland	33
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges	33