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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
The effects of energy consumption of alumina production in the environmental impacts using life cycle assessment111
Making the use of scenarios in LCA easier: the superstructure approach101
Comparative sustainability assessment of lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and all-solid-state traction batteries95
Carbon footprint and embodied energy of a wind turbine blade—a case study86
Step-by-step social life cycle assessment framework: a participatory approach for the identification and prioritization of impact subcategories applied to mobility scenarios85
Reducing cooling load and lifecycle cost for residential buildings: a case of Lahore, Pakistan80
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon77
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors71
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 packaging60
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives59
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations51
Assessment of waste-integrated concrete products: a cradle-to-cradle perspective49
Biologically based net energy allocation procedures can improve carbon footprint analysis in milk production systems49
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 China40
Characterizing the impacts of highway pavement in a newly planned greater bay area economic belt in China40
Mitigating carbon emissions in the taxi service industry: a comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of batteries for electric taxis and identification of a greener vehicle fleet38
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community37
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment37
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach37
Comparison of reusable and single-use specula in Belgian hospitals: an environmental life cycle assessment and economic analysis36
Development of a collision impact indicator to integrate in the life cycle assessment of offshore wind farms36
Exploring sustainability potentials in vineyards through LCA? Evidence from farming practices in South Africa35
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing35
Analysis and remediation of the confusing specification of the lognormal distribution33
Synergies and challenges of bottom-up and top-down approaches for assessing social impacts in mining operation32
Sustainability improvement in complex systems composed of products and services32
Correction to: Waste is not a service31
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin31
Agrifood systems transformation for climate action and environmental improvements, with co-benefits for food security and nutrition29
“Allocation at the point of substitution” applied to recycled rare earth elements: what can we learn?28
Characterizing country-specific human and ecosystem health impact and damage cost of agricultural pesticides: the case for Thailand28
Life-LCA: the first case study of the life cycle impacts of a human being28
Coffee biowaste valorization within circular economy: an evaluation method of spent coffee grounds potentials for mortar production27
Exploring the effectiveness of grey literature indicators and life cycle assessment in assessing circular economy at the micro level: a comparative analysis27
Evaluating alternative environmental decision support matrices for future Higg MSI scenarios27
SETAC Europe young scientist LCA award 2021 for T. Schaubroeck27
A parametric study on the impact of open-source inventory variability and uncertainty for the life cycle assessment of road bituminous pavements27
Waste is not a service26
The living wage gap—a quantitative measure of poverty in global supply chains26
Theory without practice: a reply to the note from Heijungs on the average versus marginal debate in Life Cycle Impact Assessment26
Electric and biomethane-fuelled urban buses: comparison of environmental performance of different powertrains25
Application of holistic and integrated LCSA: Case study on laminated veneer lumber production in Central Germany25
A case study comparison of a sulphuric acid plant with and without on-site low-grade heat recovery and repurposing25
Life cycle assessment of manufacturing cellulose nanofibril-reinforced chitosan composite films for packaging applications25
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges24
In pursuit of more fruitful food systems24
Correction to: Including GHG emissions from mangrove forests LULUC in LCA: a case study on shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam24
Estimating quantity and equity of carbon emission from roads based on an improved LCA approach: the case of China24
Correction to: Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain24
Environmental impact assessment of aluminum electrolytic capacitors in a product family from the manufacturer’s perspective23
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections23
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review22
Integration of a circular economy metric with life cycle assessment: methodological proposal of compared agri-food products22
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry22
Regionalized life cycle inventory data collection and calculation for perennial forage production in Canada: methodological best practices and limitations22
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production21
Life cycle assessment of sitka spruce forest products grown in Ireland21
Sustainability assessment of peri-urban organic horticulture — A case study in the United Kingdom21
Context-specific assessments of carbon footprints of the rice value chain: from product labeling to potential mitigation impacts21
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis21
What does it mean when something is the “main contributor” to eco-efficiency?21
How methods to assess land-use changes influence the resulting global warming potential and cost of optimized diets: a case study on Danish pigs applying life cycle assessment methodology20
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones20
Comprehensive analysis of social subcategories throughout life cycle assessment approach for the textile industry20
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity20
Complacency in the quantification and reporting of climate impacts as carbon dioxide equivalent emissions20
Environmental sustainability of Finnish pork production: life cycle assessment of climate change and water scarcity impacts20
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery19
Life cycle assessment of importing canned tuna into Aruba through different supply chains, in varying can sizes and in oils, brine or tomato sauce19
Social organisational LCA for the academic activity of the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU18
Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects18
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of iodine production from caliche ore in Chile17
Strategies to improve building environmental and economic performance: an exploratory study on 37 residential building scenarios17
Assessing decarbonization pathways of China’s heavy-duty trucks in a well-to-wheels perspective17
Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment17
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco17
Life cycle assessment in the context of decarbonization and carbon neutrality17
Toward a framework for selecting indicators of measuring sustainability and circular economy in the agri-food sector: a systematic literature review16
Life cycle impacts assessment of two gold extraction systems in Colombia: open-pit and alluvial mining16
Life cycle assessment of ammonia synthesis in China16
Life cycle assessment of pharmaceutical and clinical packaging required for medication administration practices16
UM3-LCE3-ISN: a methodology for multi-level life cycle environmental and economic evaluation of industrial symbiosis networks16
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal16
Does circular economy curtail the social impacts of fertilizer industry—evidence and insights from emerging economies16
A proposed framework to develop nutrient profiling algorithms for assessments of sustainable food: the metrics and their assumptions matter16
New life cycle impact methods require another type of life cycle inventory results15
Toxicity impacts in the environmental footprint method: calculation principles15
2022 SETAC Europe award for lifetime achievement in life cycle assessment15
Life cycle assessment research and application in Nigeria15
Participatory approach for pertinent impact subcategory identification: Local community15
Life cycle assessment and process simulation of prospective battery-grade cobalt sulfate production from Co-Au ores in Finland15
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 203015
The evolution of life cycle assessment in European policies over three decades15
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment15
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia15
Life cycle management in bakeries: a proposed roadmap towards sustainability15
Comparative study on environmental and economic assessment of straw heating across administrative areas scale of rural China15
Environmental assessment of copper production in Europe: an LCA case study from Sweden conducted using two conventional software-database setups15
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy15
Unveiling the social performance of selected agri-food chains in Costa Rica: the case of green coffee, raw milk and leafy vegetables15
Characterizing antibiotics in LCA—a review of current practices and proposed novel approaches for including resistance15
Comparison of life cycle assessment between lyocell fiber and viscose fiber in China15
Variance-based global sensitivity analysis and beyond in life cycle assessment: an application to geothermal heating networks15
Social impact and social performance of paddy rice production in Iran and Malaysia14
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack14
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries for sustainable design and manufacturing14
Employee mobility and service-related management in the carbon footprint of services—German case studies14
Correction to: Methodology to address potential impacts of plastic emissions in life cycle assessment14
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage14
Loss of mineral resource value in LCA: application of the JRC-LCI method to multiple case studies combined with inaccessibility and value-based impact assessment14
Environmental Product Declarations worldwide: a case study in Argentina13
Transition of the procurement process to Paris-compatible buildings: consideration of environmental life cycle costing in tendering and awarding13
Digital technologies for life cycle assessment: a review and integrated combination framework13
Life cycle environmental impact assessment of lab-scale preparation of porous alumina pellets as substrate for hydrogen separation metal layer-based membranes13
Life cycle assessment of MHP (Mobile Hydrogen Powersupply), an off-grid system to charge battery electric vehicles13
A systematic approach to assist in life-cycle assessment of ammunition demilitarization process: a case study with the 105-mm HE M1 ammunition13
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment13
Human health impacts of particulate matter emitted from different milk production systems in Brazil: a regionalized LCA sensitivity analysis12
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of FineFuture flotation technology: case study of Grecian Magnesite12
Sustainability performance evaluation in the organic durum wheat production: evidence from Italy12
Exploring the total cost of whole fresh, fresh-cut and pre-cooked vegetables12
Replacing location-based electricity consumption with market-based residual mixes in background data to avoid possible double counting: a quantitative analysis of effects and challenges12
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases12
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
Accounting for product recovery potential in building life cycle assessments: a disassembly network-based approach12
Life cycle assessment of conventional and organic Arabica coffees: from farm to pack12
Impact of rolling processes in the production of aluminum packaging assessed through LCA12
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility12
Correction: Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products12
Top-down characterization of resource use in LCA: from problem definition of resource use to operational characterization factors for resource inaccessibility of elements in a short-term time perspect12
A comparative life cycle assessment of kitchen garbage utilization approaches in China11
Assessing climate impacts of agroforestry system in LCA: case study in Zambia11
Social life cycle assessment in current and future Norwegian livestock production11
Transforming the feeding regime towards low-input increases the environmental impact of organic milk production on a case study farm in central germany11
Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium-ion battery production11
Cooling load reduction strategies for community worship place towards attaining sustainability: a life cycle cost perspective11
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production11
Reduction potential of German environmental food impacts due to a planetary health diet11
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of cobalt sulfate production derived from a nickel–copper–cobalt mine in China11
Freshwater consumption and domestic water deprivation in LCIA: revisiting the characterization of human health impacts11
LCA standards for environmental product assessments in the bioeconomy with a focus on biogenic carbon: A systematic review11
Applying material flow assessment-based system expansion with multiple functions to solve for multifunctionality of recycling in life cycle assessment11
Weighting factors for LCA—a new set from a global survey11
Stochastic error propagation with independent probability distributions in LCA does not preserve mass balances and leads to unusable product compositions—a first quantification11
Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain10
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts10
Correction: Implications of mineral price volatility on the outcome of social life cycle assessment interpretation—a battery material case study10
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification10
Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems10
Correction to: On the nordic guidelines for life cycle assessment10
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment10
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?9
Life-cycle assessment of redwood lumber products in the US9
How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy9
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products9
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting9
Water footprint assessment of lemon and its derivatives in Argentina: a case study in the province of Tucumán9
Life cycle assessment of recycled polyester and analysis of key emission sources9
Sustainable diets optimal design for the massive food services: economic versus environmental aspects9
Revising regionalized water scarcity characterization factors for selected watersheds along the hyper-arid Peruvian coast using the AWARE method9
Life cycle assessment and optimization scenarios of sofas: a case study in China9
Same product, different score: how methodological differences affect EPD results9
Carbon footprint of transhumant sheep farms: accounting for natural baseline emissions in Mediterranean systems9
Correction to: The evolution of life cycle assessment in european policies over three decades9
Quantitative study of life cycle carbon emissions from 7 timber buildings in China9
Life cycle assessment: from industry to policy to politics9
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains9
Linking land use inventories to biodiversity impact assessment methods9
Social consequences of wood-based innovations: a generic analysis of sectoral differences in Austria9
Life cycle assessment of leather treatment at various scales: comparison between chrome and vegetable processes9
Principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment9
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling9
Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution9
Environmental impacts of wooden, plastic, and wood-polymer composite pallet: a life cycle assessment approach8
The role of digital technologies for the LCA empowerment towards circular economy goals: a scenario analysis for the agri-food system8
A dynamic approach for life cycle global warming impact assessment of machine tool considering time effect8
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment8
Exploring alternative normalization approaches for life cycle assessment8
Environmental impact of biodegradable and non-biodegradable agricultural mulch film: A case study for Nordic conditions8
What is the difference between “environmental aspect,” “direct driver,” and “impact driver”?8
Towards use of life cycle–based indicators to support continuous improvement in the environmental performance of avocado orchards in New Zealand8
Life cycle and environmental impact evaluation of polylactic acid (PLA) production in Ecuador8
Life cycle assessment of Calanus finmarchicus products8
Improving environmental performance in wine production by life cycle assessment: case of Lebanese wine8
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production8
Practice without theory: a reply to the note from Huijbregts, Hellweg, and Hertwich on the average versus marginal debate in life cycle impact assessment7
A framework for implementing holistic and integrated life cycle sustainability assessment of regional bioeconomy7
Accounting for spatial variability in life cycle cost-effectiveness assessments of environmental impact abatement measures7
Life cycle assessment during packaging of market-sized seabass and meagre: necessary adaptations toward GHG neutrality7
Environmental life cycle assessment for improved management of agri-food companies: the case of organic whole-grain durum wheat pasta in Sicily7
Environmental assessment of a disruptive innovation: comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessments of carbon-reinforced concrete building component7
Life cycle assessment of clustered buildings with a similar renovation potential7
Country-specific life cycle inventories for human excretion of food products7
Correction to: Comment to “Marginal and non-marginal approaches in characterization: how context and scale affect the selection of an adequate characterization factor. The AWARE model example”7
Collaboration within and beyond the LCA community: success stories, obstacles, and solutions—79th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, 18 November 20217
Application of territorial emission factors with open-access data—a territorial LCA case study of land use for livestock production in Wallonia7
Correction to: Environmental life cycle implications of upscaling lithium‐ion battery production7
Life cycle-based dashboard for circular agri-food sector7
Tapping the environmental potential of gift packaging: implications of mooncake in China7
Environmental co-benefits and trade-offs of climate mitigation strategies applied to net-zero-emission neighbourhoods7
Understanding variability in greenhouse gas emission estimates of smallholder dairy farms in Indonesia7
Quantification of the environmental and economic benefits of the electrification of lawn mowers on the US residential market7
Life-cycle impact assessment methods for physical energy scarcity: considerations and suggestions7
Towards a non-ambiguous view of the amortization period for quantifying direct land-use change in LCA7
Comparison of carbon footprint and water scarcity footprint of milk protein produced by cellular agriculture and the dairy industry7
Applying an iterative prospective LCA approach to emerging wood-based technologies: three German case studies7
Factors contributing to the relevance and continuity of life cycle assessment networks6
Social life cycle hotspot analysis of future hydrogen use in the EU6
Can an ecological scarcity method for Germany support robust decisions? – analysing the effect of uncertain target values on the impact assessment of energy generation technologies6
Life cycle assessment of bio-based fertilizers production systems: where are we and where should we be heading?6
Correlation analysis of life cycle impact assessment methods and their impact categories in the food sector: representativeness and predictability of impact indicators6
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects6
Implications of mineral price volatility on the outcome of social life cycle assessment interpretation—a battery material case study6
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges6
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity6
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study6
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting6
Regional management options for floating marine litter in coastal waters from a life cycle assessment perspective6
A comprehensive cradle-to-grave life cycle assessment of three representative lithium-ion stationary batteries targeting a 20-year bi-daily charge–discharge service6
Systematising the LCA approaches’ soup: a framework based on text mining6
Environmental and economic analysis of an olive mill wastewater treatment system integrated with microalgae production6
Life cycle assessment on improvement strategies of environmental sustainability for a liquified natural gas plant in Indonesia6
Milk production from family agro-industries in São Paulo state: Carbon balance accounting6
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability6
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context5
Black swans swimming in product streams: method for including unplanned events in life cycle assessment5
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) initiative5
Derivation and assessment of regional electricity generation emission factors in the USA5
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production5
Correction to: How life cycle–based science and practice support the transition towards a sustainable economy5
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products5
Bibliometric analysis and visualisation of research on life cycle assessment in Africa (1992–2022)5
Integrating effects of overheating on human health into buildings’ life cycle assessment5
Modelling greenhouse gas emissions of land use and land-use change using spatially explicit land conversion data for French crops5
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network5
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies5
Correction: Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review5
Challenges and risks when communicating comparative LCA results to management5
Towards more circular building services: A social footprint of the sectors manufacturing and remanufacturing chillers for the European market5
Extrapolation factors for calculating ecotoxicity effects in LCA5
Dynamic ELCC assessment of hospital building: contrast assembled interior decoration with traditional interior decoration5
Towards social life cycle assessment of food delivery: findings from the Italian case study5
Life cycle assessment of bacterial cellulose production5
Towards a method for quantifying health benefits from economic value in social life cycle assessment5
Combining circular and LCA indicators for the early design of urban projects5
Advancing methods for comparative nutritional LCA of milk and plant-based milk substitutes4
Evaluation of hydrometallurgical black mass recycling with simulation-based life cycle assessment4
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop4
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