OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 32. 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
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives	190
Characterization factors for freshwater ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals	104
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	98
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community	76
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections	76
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco	75
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	65
From corporate greenhouse gas inventories to design-relevant LCAs: an integrated framework for industrial decarbonization	62
Environmental impact of rocoto chili pepper production: integrated assessment of yield, bioactive composition, and environmental footprint	60
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity	59
Is laser-induced graphene (LIG) environmentally sustainable? Laboratory-scale life cycle assessment of LIG from petroleum- and bio-derived precursors	56
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	52
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells	50
How differentiating design strategies across building components lead to maximum reduction of adverse environmental impacts	49
Mapping the landscape of life cycle sustainability assessments in Canadian agri-food systems: food commodity trends, gaps, and pathways to net-zero	48
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?	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
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization	45
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment	42
Social organizational life cycle assessment of wire arc additive manufacturing: a case study of a Belgian company	38
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification	37
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production	36
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	36
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems	36

Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage	36
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting	35
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products	34
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges	33
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network	33
Methodological strategies for social life cycle assessment of an emerging technology: a case study on circular flexible plastic packaging	32
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop	32