International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain115
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections102
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity98
Mitigating carbon emissions in the taxi service industry: a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of batteries for electric taxis and identification of a greener vehicle fleet93
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations87
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives86
UM3-LCE3-ISN: a methodology for multi-level life cycle environmental and economic evaluation of industrial symbiosis networks68
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges64
Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis63
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco55
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community53
Making the use of scenarios in LCA easier: the superstructure approach44
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203044
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia42
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage41
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment40
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank40
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production39
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting39
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack39
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification37
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment37
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?36
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems35
Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution34
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products34
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization34
Unveiling the social performance of selected agri-food chains in Costa Rica: the case of green coffee, raw milk and leafy vegetables32
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production32
Combining nutritional value with environmental impact: a novel approach to nutritional life cycle assessment30
Exergy-aided environmental life cycle assessment of propylene oxide production30
From food loss and waste to feed: a systematic review of life cycle perspectives in livestock systems30
Understanding variability in greenhouse gas emission estimates of smallholder dairy farms in Indonesia29
Life cycle and environmental impact evaluation of polylactic acid (PLA) production in Ecuador29
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity29
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review29
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges28
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network28
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop28
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability27
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets27
Correction to: Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance26
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects26
LCA to evaluate the environmental opportunity cost of biological performances in finfish farming25
Correction to: Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach25
Social-LCA providing new insights and learnings for social responsibility—case pulp and paper industry24
Visualisation of building life cycle assessment results using 3D business intelligence dashboards24
Digital technologies and circularity: trade-offs in the development of life cycle assessment24
Evaluation of design options for green product development: a combined Cuckoo search and life cycle assessment approach23
Life cycle assessment of an upcoming nuclear power plant decommissioning: the Fessenheim case study from public data23
Dissipation-based life cycle impact assessment of mineral resource use—a review, case study, and implications for the product environmental footprint23
Identifying uncertainty in the global warming impacts of biomaterials: an analysis of biosuccinic acid23
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment22
Decarbonisation Index (DCI): an LCA-based key performance indicator for the automotive industry22
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research21
Correction: A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment21
Social life cycle assessment of an innovative industrial wastewater treatment plant21
Attribution of Global Warming Potential impacts in a multifunctional metals industry system using different system expansion and allocation methodologies21
Life cycle–based assessment methods for circular economy strategies in the agri-food sector21
Life cycle assessment and circularity indicators21
Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units20
Exploring the use phase social impacts of smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning control systems: A scoping review20
Design of a nutrient profiling model for life cycle assessment of “superfoods” to address nutritional deficiencies and enhance environmental protection in Spain19
Comparative life cycle assessment of railway subballast layer with natural and coal overburden aggregates in India19
Social hotspots in the automotive industry’s aluminum value chains—combining primary and generic data19
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel19
Life cycle assessment of behind-the-meter Bitcoin mining at US power plant19
Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of technology systems at different stages of development19
The social life cycle assessment of products and organizations—methodological developments and implementations19
Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach18
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review18
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)18
Correction: Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203018
Correction: Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites18
Environmental impacts and improvement implications for industrial meatballs manufacturing: scenario in a developing country17
Life cycle assessment including traffic noise: conventional vs. rubberized asphalt17
Potential impact of abiotic resource use considering country-specific supply chain: consumption-based characterization and normalization utilizing a multi-regional input–output model17
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers17
Life cycle assessment of gas-based EAF steel production: environmental impacts and strategies for footprint reduction17
A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment17
In defense of the avocado: a life cycle perspective17
Recalculating Australian water scarcity characterisation factors using the AWARE method17
Torrefied plastic-fiber fuel pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels — a case study life cycle assessment for Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA17
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?16
Modeling spatially resolved characterization factors for eutrophication potential in life cycle assessment16
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity16
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA16
From analysis-LCA to message-LCA: a lost cause?16
Life cycle assessment of bioethanol production from banana, potato, and papaya waste16
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting16
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances16
Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project16
Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research16
Development of an LCA-based tool to assess the environmental sustainability level of cosmetics products16
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production15
Correction to: Waste is not a service15
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery15
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and machine learning for sustainable designs: a case study on protective layers made of mineral-bonded fiber-reinforced composites15
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment15
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones15
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing15
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review15
Electric and biomethane-fuelled urban buses: comparison of environmental performance of different powertrains15
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors15
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of heavy machinery manufacturing: a case study in Türkiye15
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach15
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon14
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis14
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin14
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal14
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry14
Coffee biowaste valorization within circular economy: an evaluation method of spent coffee grounds potentials for mortar production14
Life-cycle assessment of redwood lumber products in the US13
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility13
Life cycle management in bakeries: a proposed roadmap towards sustainability13
Replacing location-based electricity consumption with market-based residual mixes in background data to avoid possible double counting: a quantitative analysis of effects and challenges13
Employee mobility and service-related management in the carbon footprint of services—German case studies13
Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain13
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts13
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains13
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases12
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy12
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies12
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling12
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment12
Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review12
Life cycle assessment of a marine biorefinery producing protein, bioactives and polymeric packaging material12
A social panorama within the life cycle thinking and the circular economy: a literature review12
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment12
Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment12
Correction: Elementary flow mapping across life cycle inventory data systems: A case study for data interoperability under the global life cycle assessment data access (GLAD) initiative12
How can LCA include prospective elements to assess emerging technologies and system transitions? The 76th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, 19 November 202012
Publisher Correction to: Life‑LCA: the first case study of the life cycle impacts of a human being11
Nutrient substitution for secondary fertilizer: Is current practice comprehensive enough? A review to reveal the LCA methodological challenges11
Correction: Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment11
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production11
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach11
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel11
Two-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations in LCA: an innovative approach to guide the choice for the environmentally preferable option11
Correction to: Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery11
Generic and site-specific social life cycle assessment of municipal wastewater treatment systems in Spain: challenges and limitations of the method when applied to resource recovery systems11
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting11
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study11
Process simulation-based life cycle assessment of the six-step Cu-Cl Cycle of green hydrogen generation and comparative analysis with other Cu-Cl cycles11
Health effects of particulate matter formation in Life Cycle Impact Assessment: critical review and recommendation of models for Brazil11
The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project11
Correction: Dynamic ELCC assessment of hospital building: contrast assembled interior decoration with traditional interior decoration11
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context11
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products11
Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan11
An axiomatic method for goal-dependent allocation in life cycle assessment10
Policy implications of time-differentiated climate change analysis in life cycle assessment of building elements in Aotearoa New Zealand10
Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study10
Correction to: Toward a framework for selecting indicators of measuring sustainability and circular economy in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review10
Towards a method for poverty reduction potential in social life cycle assessment with application to the cobalt supply chain10
A price-based life cycle impact assessment method to quantify the reduced accessibility to mineral resources value10
Using the US National Air Toxics Assessment to benchmark the USEtox inhalation-mediated carcinogenic impacts of air emissions10
Author Correction to: Evaluating the environmental impact of debit card payments10
Ionizing radiation potential in life cycle impact assessment: broadening the assessment through inclusion of radioactive decay products10
Grave without death? a plea for a more accurate wording of study scopes10
Correction: Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA10
Is small or big solar better for the environment? Comparative life cycle assessment of solar photovoltaic rooftop vs. ground-mounted systems10
Assessing the potential human health impacts of freshwater consumption: considering inequalities in water availability to assess the consequences of domestic water deprivation9
Correction to: Functional unit influence on building life cycle assessment9
Guidelines on the selection and inventory of social life cycle assessment indicators: a case study on flexible plastic packaging in the European circular economy9
Environmental impact assessment of ground source heat pump system for heating and cooling: a case study in China9
Life cycle assessment of ICT in higher education: a comparison between desktop and single-board computers9
Correction: Environmental impacts of battery electric light-duty vehicles using a dynamic life cycle assessment for qatar’s transport system (2022 to 2050)9
Increasing temporal resolution in greenhouse gas accounting of electricity consumption divided into Scopes 2 and 3: case study of Germany9
Partitioning product footprint changes into yield and environmental improvement effects: toward life cycle assessment of agricultural system transitions9
Meta-analysis of the greenhouse gases emissions of nuclear electricity generation: learnings for process-based LCA9
Social performance and impact assessment of an autonomous system in the meat processing sector9
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)9
Correction to: An LCA of the Pelamis wave energy converter9
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cylindrical sulfide-based solid-state batteries8
Life cycle assessment of peat for growing media and evaluation of the suitability of using the Product Environmental Footprint methodology for peat8
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of leather-like materials from mycelium: Indonesian case study8
Sustainable management in the slow fashion industry: carbon footprint of an Italian brand8
Capital goods in life cycle inventory of products: a global systematic review and future research agenda8
Influence of methodological choices on maintenance and replacement in building LCA8
Life cycle assessment of dairy production systems in Inner Mongolia: reiterate LCA modeling approaches8
Review of carbon emissions offsetting guidelines using instructional criteria8
Life cycle assessment of hemp-based milk alternative production in Lower Saxony, Germany, based on a material flow analysis of a pilot scale8
Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment8
Assessing the use of land system archetypes to increase regional variability representation in country-specific characterization factors: a soil erosion case study8
Choosing reference land use for carbon and biodiversity footprints8
Evaluating the environmental performance of mezcal production in Michoacán, México: A life cycle assessment approach8
Product environmental footprint of New Zealand leather production8
Identifying influencing physical and environmental parameters on fate and characterization factors for microplastic emissions in the marine environment8
Life cycle assessment of different strawberry production methods in Germany with a particular focus on plastic emissions8
Blockchain technology and Social Life Cycle Assessment: synergies and implications8
An applicability assessment and sensitivity analysis of land use impact models: application of the LANCA model in site-specific conditions8
Life cycle impact assessment framework for assessing physical effects on biota of marine microplastics emissions8
Assessing the circularity and sustainability of circular carpets — a demonstration of circular life cycle sustainability assessment7
Life cycle assessment of aquaculture bivalve shellfish production — a critical review of methodological trends7
Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment7
Correction to: Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment7
Comparison of life cycle assessment between lyocell fiber and viscose fiber in China7
2022 SETAC Europe award for lifetime achievement in life cycle assessment7
Life cycle assessment of importing canned tuna into Aruba through different supply chains, in varying can sizes and in oils, brine or tomato sauce7
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical and clinical packaging required for medication administration practices7
Correction to: Including GHG emissions from mangrove forests LULUC in LCA: a case study on shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam7
Complacency in the quantification and reporting of climate impacts as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions7
Assessing climate impacts of agroforestry system in LCA: case study in Zambia7
Linking land use inventories to biodiversity impact assessment methods7
Life cycle assessment: from industry to policy to politics7
Life cycle impacts assessment of two gold extraction systems in Colombia: open-pit and alluvial mining7
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of iodine production from caliche ore in Chile7
Review and expert survey of allocation methods used in life cycle assessment of milk and beef7
Social organisational LCA for the academic activity of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU7
Life cycle assessment of coke production based on real plant and model-optimised data7
Cooling load reduction strategies for community worship place towards attaining sustainability: a life cycle cost perspective7
Water footprint assessment of lemon and its derivatives in Argentina: a case study in the province of Tucumán7
Agrifood systems transformation for climate action and environmental improvements, with co-benefits for food security and nutrition7
Correction: Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review6
Transforming the feeding regime towards low-input increases the environmental impact of organic milk production on a case study farm in central germany6
Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production6
Factors influencing the carbon footprint of rice production in Northeastern Vietnam6
Soil-less is more? A comparative life cycle assessment case study of agricultural growing methods6
Social evaluation of municipal solid waste management systems from a life cycle perspective: a systematic literature review6
Life cycle assessment of bio-based fertilizers production systems: where are we and where should we be heading?6
Modelling greenhouse gas emissions of land use and land-use change using spatially explicit land conversion data for French crops6
Life cycle environmental impact assessment of lab-scale preparation of porous alumina pellets as substrate for hydrogen separation metal layer-based membranes6
Organizational Life Cycle Assessment of a wildlife park in northern Germany6
Application of territorial emission factors with open-access data—a territorial LCA case study of land use for livestock production in Wallonia6
Testing the use of a large language model (LLM) for performing data quality assessment6
Factors contributing to the relevance and continuity of life cycle assessment networks6
Towards a non-ambiguous view of the amortization period for quantifying direct land-use change in LCA6
Milk production from family agro-industries in São Paulo state: Carbon balance accounting6
Environmental impact of biodegradable and non-biodegradable agricultural mulch film: A case study for Nordic conditions6
Comparative study on environmental and economic assessment of straw heating across administrative areas scale of rural China6
Extrapolation factors for calculating ecotoxicity effects in LCA6
Systematising the LCA approaches’ soup: a framework based on text mining6
Bibliometric analysis and visualisation of research on life cycle assessment in Africa (1992–2022)6
A parametric approach for developing embodied environmental benchmark values for buildings6
Conceptual issue of the dynamic GWP indicator and solution5
Mind the (reporting) gap—a scoping study comparing measured laundry decisions with self-reported laundry behaviour5
Methodology for social life cycle impact assessment enhanced with gender aspects applied to electric vehicle Li-ion batteries5
The environmental consequences of a change in Australian cotton lint production5
Application of life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) in the gold mining sector: a systematic review5
Problematic consequences of the inclusion of capital goods inventory data in Environmental Product Declarations5
Evaluating metrics for quantifying the climate-change effects of land-based carbon fluxes5
Application of intuitionistic fuzzy set in social life cycle impact assessment5
Using patents to support prospective life cycle assessment: opportunities and limitations5
Nitrogen, carbon, and water scarcity footprints of Brassica oleracea production5
Coupling material and energy flow analysis with life cycle assessment to support circular strategies at the urban level5
A comparative cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment of single-use plastic shopping bags and various alternatives available in South Africa5
Environmental assessment of common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) from a small-scale fishery in Algarve (Portugal)5
Social Organisational Life Cycle Assessment and Social Life Cycle Assessment: different twins? Correlations from a case study5
Chain of custody modelling in carbon footprinting and life cycle assessment5
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