OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is 11. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain	149
Temporally explicit abiotic depletion potential (TADP) for mineral resource use based on future demand projections	128
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	124
Critical review of environmental impact evaluations of electronic healthcare devices: challenges and recommendations	88
CriticS: a resource criticality characterization method for life cycle assessment considering stakeholders’ perspectives	68
Effect factors for marine invasion impacts on biodiversity	67
Is laser-induced graphene (LIG) environmentally sustainable? Laboratory-scale life cycle assessment of LIG from petroleum- and bio-derived precursors	62
UM3-LCE3-ISN: a methodology for multi-level life cycle environmental and economic evaluation of industrial symbiosis networks	58
Environmental and social impacts of women’s argan oil production in Morocco	55
Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	53
Linking inventories and impact assessment models for addressing biodiversity impacts: mapping rules and challenges	53
S-LCA of lithium mining in Chile and its potential impacts on water and the local community	52
Mapping the landscape of life cycle sustainability assessments in Canadian agri-food systems: food commodity trends, gaps, and pathways to net-zero	49
Life cycle assessment of hydropower utilization in Iceland as a driving force for climate strategy and decarbonization	49
Life cycle assessment of portable charging technologies—a case study of a solar charger and a power bank	47
What’s up and where to go in social life cycle impact assessment cause-effect model development?	46
How differentiating design strategies across building components lead to maximum reduction of adverse environmental impacts	45
Analysis of human well-being as the area of protection in social life cycle assessment	44
Life cycle assessment as a driver for process optimisation of cellobiose lipids fermentation and purification	42
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-assisted microbial fuel cells	41
Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment	39
The electrochemical model coupled parameterized life cycle assessment for the optimized design of EV battery pack	37
Environmental impact of Danish pork—effect of allocation methods at slaughtering stage	37
Life cycle assessment of culture media with alternative compositions for cultured meat production	37
Social organizational life cycle assessment of wire arc additive manufacturing: a case study of a Belgian company	37

Improving life cycle assessment for carbon capture and circular product systems	36
At the intersection of life cycle assessment and indirect greenhouse gas emissions accounting	36
Life cycle inventories and life cycle assessment for an electricity grid network: case study of the Jamali grid, Indonesia	34
Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment: A method to assess the emissions and environmental impacts of agricultural systems and products	33
Operationalising emission and toxicity modelling of pesticides in LCA: the OLCA-Pest project contribution	32
Combining nutritional value with environmental impact: a novel approach to nutritional life cycle assessment	31
From food loss and waste to feed: a systematic review of life cycle perspectives in livestock systems	30
Environmental impact of mezcal production: assessing bagasse valorization and vinasse treatment for a circular economy approach	30
Statistics-based LCA of artisanal fishing in the Union of the Comoros: efficiency challenges	30
Exergy-aided environmental life cycle assessment of propylene oxide production	29
Reply to the “Land use and land use change emissions of forest land in Finnish provinces—an LCA dataset” by Lehtilä et al. (Int J Life Cycle Assess 30: 896–905. DOI:10.1007/s11367-025–02456-5)	29
Towards AI-augmented sustainability assessments: integrating large language models in the case of product social life cycle assessment	28
Life cycle analysis of semi-intensive and intensive sheep milk production	28
Correction to: Life cycle assessment on construction and demolition waste recycling: a systematic review analyzing three important quality aspects	28
Accounting for nutrition-related health impacts in food life cycle assessment: insights from an expert workshop	28
Solutions to achieve carbon-neutral mixtures for the U.S. pavement network	28
Life cycle and environmental impact evaluation of polylactic acid (PLA) production in Ecuador	27
Evaluation of LCIA characterization models for marine ecotoxicity	26
Claiming-based allocation for waste-to-energy in district heating	26
Correction to: Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach	26
LCA in Saudi Arabia: a critical review	26
Digital technologies and circularity: trade-offs in the development of life cycle assessment	26
Life cycle assessment of printed circuit boards recycling from waste mobile phones	26
Midpoint and endpoint characterization factors for mineral resource dissipation: methods and application to 6000 data sets	26
Climate impact of bioenergy with or without carbon dioxide removal: influence of functional unit and parameter variability	26
Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	25
Identifying uncertainty in the global warming impacts of biomaterials: an analysis of biosuccinic acid	25
Social-LCA providing new insights and learnings for social responsibility—case pulp and paper industry	24
LCA to evaluate the environmental opportunity cost of biological performances in finfish farming	24
Design of a nutrient profiling model for life cycle assessment of “superfoods” to address nutritional deficiencies and enhance environmental protection in Spain	23
The application of life cycle assessment in buildings: challenges, and directions for future research	23
Visualisation of building life cycle assessment results using 3D business intelligence dashboards	23
Correction: A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment	23
Life cycle assessment of reduce, recycling and final treatment of plastic primary food packaging in Norway using a system expansion with multiple functions scope	23
Dissipation-based life cycle impact assessment of mineral resource use—a review, case study, and implications for the product environmental footprint	23
Life cycle assessment of an upcoming nuclear power plant decommissioning: the Fessenheim case study from public data	23
Decarbonisation Index (DCI): an LCA-based key performance indicator for the automotive industry	23
Evaluation of design options for green product development: a combined Cuckoo search and life cycle assessment approach	23
Correction: Ex-ante life cycle assessment of commercial-scale cultivated meat production in 2030	22
Exploring the use phase social impacts of smart heating, ventilation and air conditioning control systems: A scoping review	22
Life cycle assessment of behind-the-meter Bitcoin mining at US power plant	21
Correction: Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites	21
A carbon footprint of drinking water pipes in Tokyo: exploring the neglected use phase	21
Life-cycle cost (LCC) applied to hydrogen technologies: a review	20
Comparative life cycle assessment of railway subballast layer with natural and coal overburden aggregates in India	20
Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units	20
Life cycle–based assessment methods for circular economy strategies in the agri-food sector	20
The social life cycle assessment of products and organizations—methodological developments and implementations	19
Sensitivity of buildings’ carbon footprint to electricity decarbonization: a life cycle–based multi-objective optimization approach	19
Application of parametric trend life cycle assessment for investigating the carbon footprint of ammonia as marine fuel	19

Environmental impacts and improvement implications for industrial meatballs manufacturing: scenario in a developing country	19
Attribution of Global Warming Potential impacts in a multifunctional metals industry system using different system expansion and allocation methodologies	19
A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL)	19
Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) of technology systems at different stages of development	18
Environmental life cycle assessment of drink and yoghurt products using non-nutritive sweeteners and sweetness enhancers in place of added sugar: the SWEET project	18
Social hotspots in the automotive industry’s aluminum value chains—combining primary and generic data	18
Torrefied plastic-fiber fuel pellets as a replacement for fossil fuels — a case study life cycle assessment for Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA	18
Environmental assessment of the Ecuadorian cocoa value chain with statistics-based LCA	17
Influence of data selection on aquatic ecotoxicity characterization factors for selected persistent and mobile substances	17
Rethinking social life cycle assessment for agricultural systems: insights using the pig value chain in the Republic of Ireland as a case study	17
From analysis-LCA to message-LCA: a lost cause?	17
Life cycle assessment of bioethanol production from banana, potato, and papaya waste	17
Potential impact of abiotic resource use considering country-specific supply chain: consumption-based characterization and normalization utilizing a multi-regional input–output model	17
Life cycle assessment of gas-based EAF steel production: environmental impacts and strategies for footprint reduction	17
The basket-of-functions approach applied to compare the climate aspects of high-quality mechanical recycling and downcycling of plastics	17
Life cycle assessment of offshore low-head pumped hydro storage and its comparison with other energy storage technologies	17
Towards sustainable food production and climate change mitigation: an attributional life cycle assessment comparing industrial and basalt rock dust fertilisers	17
Social Life Cycle Assessment in the construction sector: current work and directions for future research	16
A comprehensive review of the end-of-life modeling in LCAs of digital equipment	16
Global impacts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertiliser use for major crops on aquatic biodiversity	16
Development of an LCA-based tool to assess the environmental sustainability level of cosmetics products	16
Meta-comparisons: how to compare methods for LCA?	16
Principles for accurate GHG inventories and options for market-based accounting	16
Comparative life cycle assessment of traditional timber jack arch slab refurbishment solutions: Eco-efficient proposal versus conventional ones	16
In defense of the avocado: a life cycle perspective	16
Environmental assessment of hard coal char as a carbon reductant for silicon alloys production	16
Correction: Characterizing human health damage from ionizing radiation in life cycle assessment	16
Assessing social risks in Greek and Dutch economies: A product social impact life cycle assessment approach	15
Integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) and machine learning for sustainable designs: a case study on protective layers made of mineral-bonded fiber-reinforced composites	15
ISO 14075 and social sustainability: balancing organizational and product approaches in Social Life Cycle Assessment	15
Mineral resources depletion, dissipation and accessibility in LCA: a critical analysis	15
Towards a non-speciesist social life cycle assessment	15
Applying social life cycle assessment to evaluate the use phase of mobility services: a case study in Berlin	15
Assessing the contribution of products to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: a methodological proposal	14
A novel life cycle assessment and life cycle costing framework for carbon fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aviation industry	14
Towards net-zero carbon buildings: Investigating the impact of early-stage structure design on building embodied carbon	14
Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of heavy machinery manufacturing: a case study in Türkiye	14
Marginal and average considerations in LCA and their role for defining emission factors and characterization factors	14
Electric and biomethane-fuelled urban buses: comparison of environmental performance of different powertrains	14
Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	13
Profiling employability skills for life cycle professionals amid the circular and digital economy	13
Employee mobility and service-related management in the carbon footprint of services—German case studies	13
Implementation of resource supply risk characterisation factors in the life cycle assessment of food products: Application to contrasting bread supply chains	13
Can LCA be FAIR? Assessing the status quo and opportunities for FAIR data sharing	13
A new life cycle impact assessment methodology for assessing the impact of abiotic resource use on future resource accessibility	13
Alignment of the life cycle initiative’s “principles for the application of life cycle sustainability assessment” with the LCSA practice: A case study review	13
Comparative life cycle assessment of rex rabbit breeding industry chains: benefits of a circular industry chain	13
Integrating machine learning with life cycle assessment: a comprehensive review and guide for predicting environmental impacts	13
Including biochar’s soil effects in lifecycle assessment: application to a practice-oriented case study in Aguascalientes, Mexico	13
Avocado production in different biomes throughout Peru: do differing cultivation practices translate into differences in environmental impacts?	12
Sandbag housing construction in South Africa: life cycle assessment and operational energy modelling	12
The limitations of bioeconomy LCA studies for understanding the transition to sustainable bioeconomy	12
Integrating consumer behaviour into the environmental assessment of circular packaging: a scoping review	12
Meta-analysis of life cycle assessments for Li-ion batteries production emissions	12
Life cycle assessment of a marine biorefinery producing protein, bioactives and polymeric packaging material	12
Conditions for the broad application of prospective life cycle inventory databases	12
Towards environmentally sustainable water management in Africa: a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment studies in water and wastewater treatment	12
Replacing location-based electricity consumption with market-based residual mixes in background data to avoid possible double counting: a quantitative analysis of effects and challenges	12
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) initiative	12
Resource efficiency analysis through planetary boundary-based life cycle assessment: a case study of sugarcane in Pakistan	12
Ex ante life cycle assessment of bauxite residue vitrification technology	12
Balancing the green carbon cycle — Biogenic carbon within life cycle assessment	12
Evaluating environmental impacts of bio-based insulation materials through scenario-based and dynamic life cycle assessment	12
Recycling and reusing a robust solution, or a utopia for lowering the greenhouse gas emissions of buildings? The case of Denmark	12
Comparative social hotpots analysis of biomass pellets in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico in a circular bioeconomy context	12
Circularity indicators and added value to traditional LCA impact categories: example of pig production	12
Electricity accounting in life cycle assessment: the challenge of double counting	11
Life cycle costing as part of a life cycle sustainability assessment of products: methodology and case studies	11
Nutrient substitution for secondary fertilizer: Is current practice comprehensive enough? A review to reveal the LCA methodological challenges	11
Policy implications of time-differentiated climate change analysis in life cycle assessment of building elements in Aotearoa New Zealand	11
Life cycle assessment of an integrated xylitol biorefinery with value-added co-products	11
Life cycle assessment of microalgae-derived biodiesel	11
Correction to: Quantifying the life-cycle health impacts of a cobalt-containing lithium-ion battery	11
Correction: Dynamic ELCC assessment of hospital building: contrast assembled interior decoration with traditional interior decoration	11
Correction: Climate impact and energy use of structural battery composites in electrical vehicles—a comparative prospective life cycle assessment	11
Process simulation-based life cycle assessment of the six-step Cu-Cl Cycle of green hydrogen generation and comparative analysis with other Cu-Cl cycles	11
Using the Product Social Impact Life Cycle Assessment (PSILCA) database for product comparison: Confetti case study	11
The myth of informed decision-making: explaining the substantive effectiveness of LCA use in a building product development project	11
Grave without death? a plea for a more accurate wording of study scopes	11