Journal of Industrial Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Industrial Ecology is 4. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock535
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The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa58
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing57
Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process56
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods53
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions50
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites48
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)46
The role of raw materials to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals: Tracing the risks and positive contributions of cobalt along the lithium‐ion battery supply chain44
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure44
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK44
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways42
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires42
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU41
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Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis39
A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps38
Regional analysis of aluminum and steel flows into the American automotive industry37
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export37
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model37
Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods36
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency35
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition35
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries34
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland33
Exploring machine learning techniques to predict deforestation to enhance the decision‐making of road construction projects33
Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?32
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Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area31
Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study30
Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators30
Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry29
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment28
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)28
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models27
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases27
Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach26
The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China25
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry25
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach24
Environmental assessment of discarded plastic caps as a honeycomb core: An eco‐mechanical perspective24
What would it take to establish a take‐back scheme for fishing gear? Insights from a comparative analysis of fishing gear and beverage containers24
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 203023
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments23
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships23
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis23
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy23
Corrigendum to Wietschel et al. (2021). Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU. Journal of Industrial Ecology 25(3): 677–69222
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade22
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Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes22
Integrating vehicle‐to‐grid technology into energy system models: Novel methods and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions22
Identifying sectoral impacts on global scarce water uses from multiple perspectives21
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens21
Shifting expenditure on food, holidays, and furnishings could lower greenhouse gas emissions by almost 40%21
The role of community‐based learning in teaching about industrial ecology and sustainability in the context of engineering education: A case study from the field21
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability21
PIOT‐Hub ‐ A collaborative cloud tool for generation of physical input–output tables using mechanistic engineering models20
Marine biomass for a circular blue‐green bioeconomy? A life cycle perspective on closing nitrogen and phosphorus land‐marine loops20
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The mediating role of functionality orientation for purchasing remanufactured products: Cases in China, Indonesia, and Thailand19
Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India19
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda19
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union19
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies19
Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings19
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology19
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach19
The impact of biogas production on the organic carbon input to the soil of Dutch dairy farms: A substance flow analysis19
Industrial metabolism analysis of a Chinese wine industry chain based on material flow and input–output analyses18
A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint18
Whole‐process and multi‐stakeholder‐based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development18
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model18
A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory18
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities18
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries18
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins17
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Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method17
How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?17
Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains17
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component17
Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–202117
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology16
Cycling and reciprocity in weighted food webs and economic networks16
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda16
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)16
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing16
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets16
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?16
A terminology for downcycling15
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse15
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States15
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Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution15
A consequential approach to life cycle sustainability assessment with an agent‐based model to determine the potential contribution of chemical recycling to UN Sustainable Development Goals15
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application15
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators14
“When we got divorced, I left all my things behind.”: How the lifespan of household goods is linked to the biographical trajectory of their owners14
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling14
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam14
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE14
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China14
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–201613
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments13
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles13
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts13
An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe13
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing13
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE13
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution13
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Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives13
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains13
Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge13
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions13
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States13
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis13
Materials footprint of household consumption in China13
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors13
Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability12
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus12
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A review of methods to trace material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis: Comparative application of six methods to the United States and EXIOBASE3 regions, Part 212
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Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study12
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data12
A mechanistic model to link technical specifications of vehicle end‐of‐life treatment with the potential of closed‐loop recycling of post‐consumer scrap alloys12
The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective11
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development11
Estimation of entity‐level land use and its application in urban sectoral land use footprint: A bottom‐up model with emerging geospatial data11
The PIOLab: Building global physical input–output tables in a virtual laboratory11
Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts11
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany11
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling11
Attributional and consequential life cycle assessments in a circular economy with integration of a quality indicator: A case study of cascading wood products11
Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway11
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward11
Life cycle assessment of CO2 conversion and storage in metal–CO2 electrochemical cells11
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Powering the circular future: Climate change and economic perspectives on second‐life batteries in the Belgian context10
A review of methods to trace material flows into final products in dynamic material flow analysis: From industry shipments in physical units to monetary input–output tables, Part 110
Carbon and water conservation value of independent, place‐based repair in Lima, Peru10
Location choice for large‐scale battery manufacturing plants: Exploring the role of clean energy, costs, and knowledge on location decisions in Europe10
Evolution of the anthropogenic chromium cycle in China10
Circular economy: A new research field?10
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Future disposal surge: A new quantification approach for predicting waste from external thermal insulation composite systems in Germany10
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In‐use dissipation of technology‐critical elements from vehicles and renewable energy technologies in Vienna, Austria: A public health matter?10
Analysis of parameters about useful life extension in 70 tools and methods related to eco‐design and circular economy10
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle10
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Urban–industrial symbiosis recommendation platform for urban factories: Leveraging historical exchange patterns through feature analysis for real‐world applications10
A sociomaterial conceptualization of flows in industrial ecology10
Environmental performance and trends of the world's semiconductor foundry industry10
The carbon footprint of capital formation: An empirical analysis on its relationship with a country's income growth10
Bottom‐up dynamics in circular innovation systems: The perspective of circular start‐ups9
Using lightweight airframe materials in aircraft structures and investigating potential reinforcement effects with sustainable aviation fuels: An analysis of environmental and economic impacts9
Seven decades of plastic flows and stocks in the United States and pathways toward zero plastic pollution by 20509
Assessing the prospective environmental impacts and circularity potentials of building stocks: An open‐source model from Austria (PULSE‐AT)9
Pricing firms’ biodiversity risk exposure: Empirical evidence from audit fees9
Categorization of manufacturing companies’ readiness profiles for the transition to the circular economy: A multidimensional cluster analysis9
Delineating the embodied CO2 emissions in Canada's exports: Routes, drivers, and paths9
Using quantitative storytelling to identify constraints in resource supply: The case of brown seaweed9
Intentions of housing developers to reuse wood materials in buildings9
Carbon‐neutral pathways to 2050 for Japan's aviation industry in the absence of a mass supply of sustainable aviation fuels9
Built‐environment stocks in the context of a master‐planned city: A case study of Chandigarh, India9
Robust modeling of material flows to end‐uses under uncertainty: UK wood flows and material efficiency opportunities9
Cost versus environment? Combined life cycle, techno‐economic, and circularity assessment of silicon‐ and perovskite‐based photovoltaic systems9
Evaluating sustainability impacts of critical mineral extractions: Integration of life cycle sustainability assessment and SDGs frameworks9
Product label identification with OCR for model‐specific reuse, repair, and recycling: A case study for washing machines9
Assessment of a critical mineral recycling network: A case study on nickel recovery from production waste in Korean eco‐industrial parks9
The role of socio‐economic material stocks for natural resource use in the United States of America from 1870 to 21008
Data‐driven models employed to waste plastic in China: Generation, classification, and environmental assessment8
Data quality assessment of aggregated LCI datasets: A case study on fossil‐based and bio‐based plastic food packaging8
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The effect of consumption and production policies on circular economy business models: A machine learning approach8
A critical perspective on uncertainty appraisal and sensitivity analysis in life cycle assessment8
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Global sensitivity analysis of correlated uncertainties in life cycle assessment8
Analysis of attachment factors in small household EEE: An opportunity toward the circular economy8
Facilitating systemic eco‐innovation to pave the way for a circular economy: A qualitative‐empirical study on barriers and drivers in the European polyurethane industry8
City‐scale assessment of the material and environmental footprint of buildings using an advanced building information model: A case study from Canberra, Australia8
Identifying methodological challenges in the social risk assessment of cellulosic ethanol value chains8
Linking socio‐economic metabolism models and simulation games: Reflections on benefits and challenges8
Scenario analysis of supply‐ and demand‐side solutions for circular economy and climate change mitigation in the global building sector7
Implementing industrial and territorial ecology: The role of proximity and intermediaries in three French case studies7
When floodplain restoration meets socio‐ecological goals for rural stormwater management7
Material flows and embodied energy of direct air capture: A cradle‐to‐gate inventory of selected technologies7
Life cycle assessment of in‐person, virtual, and hybrid academic conferences: New evidence and perspectives7
Sustainability transitions require an understanding of smaller cities7
A practice‐based framework for defining functional units in comparative life cycle assessments of materials7
Sustainability implications of artificial intelligence in the chemical industry: A conceptual framework7
Material and energy use in Norway's residential building archetypes7
Estimating stocks and flows of electric passenger vehicle batteries in the Norwegian fleet from 2011 to 20307
Thermodynamic rarity of electrical and electronic waste: Assessment and policy implications for critical materials7
Evaluating strategies to increase PET bottle recycling in the United States7
Environmental impacts of key metals' supply and low‐carbon technologies are likely to decrease in the future7
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A review of system dynamics modeling for the sustainability assessment of biorefineries7
Examining global biodiversity accounts: Implications of aggregating characterization factors from elementary flows in multi‐regional input–output analysis7
Phosphorus (P) in animal diets as a driver of embodied P in animal products and net anthropogenic P inputs6
Development of simplified characterization factors for the assessment of expanded polystyrene and tire wear microplastic emissions applied in a food container life cycle assessment6
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Data innovation in industrial ecology6
Developing a methodology to quantify mismanaged plastic waste entering the ocean in coastal countries6
Bottom‐up estimation of material stocks and flows in Toronto's road network6
Does it pay to be science‐based green? The impact of science‐based emission‐reduction targets on corporate financial performance6
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A tool to estimate the contribution of fishing gear modifications to reduce benthic impact6
Regional transformation pathways for the bioeconomy: A novel monitoring approach for complex transitions6
Streamlined benefit analysis of products based on the Sustainable Development Goals: Integrating the voice of society into life cycle sustainability assessment6
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Australia's circular economy metrics and indicators5
Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments part I: Review of mechanical recycling studies5
Analyzing network flows of used EEE and e‐waste with platform data: Adding reuse into the EPR system for WEEE recycling in China5
A data framework for assessing social inequality and equity in multi‐sector social, ecological, infrastructural urban systems: Focus on fine‐spatial scales5
Electric and gasoline vehicle total cost of ownership across US cities5
The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.05
More habitual deviation alleviates the trade‐offs between dietary health, environmental impacts, and economic cost5
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Recycling plastics from e‐waste: Implications for effective eco‐design5
Model uncertainty versus variability in the life cycle assessment of commercial fisheries5
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High‐resolution quantification of building stock using multi‐source remote sensing imagery and deep learning5
Uncovering urban transportation infrastructure expansion and sustainability challenge in Bangkok: Insights from a material stock perspective5
Toward efficient mitigation solutions: Source‐based carbon pricing and economic implications in China5
The stakeholder business case for circular economy: An ordonomic approach for developing a circular economy business case by stakeholder governance5
Taking stock for repair and refurbishing: A review of harvesting of spare parts from electrical and electronic products5
What matters most to the material intensity coefficient of buildings? Random forest‐based evidence from China5
Opportunities and limitations for the introduction of circular economy principles in EU aquaculture based on the regulatory framework5
DEALA — A novel economic life cycle impact assessment method for differentiated economic assessments in the context of life cycle sustainability assessments5
When does upcycling mitigate climate change? The case of wet spent grains and fruit and vegetable residues in Canada5
Eco‐labeling of freight transport services: Design, evaluation, and research directions5
Modeling interior component stocks of UK housing using exterior features and machine learning techniques5
Transforming existing local ecosystems to circular economy ecosystems for plastics: The case of the PlastiCity ecosystem5
Material metabolism and associated environmental impacts in Pearl River Delta urban agglomeration5
Building feature‐based machine learning regression to quantify urban material stocks: A Hong Kong study5
Long‐term lifetime trends of large appliances since the introduction in Norwegian households5
A metric for tradable biodiversity credits quantifying impacts on global extinction risk4
A or IA? Unifying the computational structures of process‐ and IO‐based LCA for clarity and consistency4
Global supply chains and domestic climate policy: Addressing the substantial material‐related carbon footprint of final consumption in France4
Modern slavery footprints in global supply chains4
Changes of production and consumption structures in coastal regions lead to mercury emission control in China4
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