OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Ecology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock	549
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Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process	62
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions	58
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods	58
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites	55
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK	54
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure	50
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	49
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa	46
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	46
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing	44
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)	44
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 chain	43
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	42
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	42
Exploring machine learning techniques to predict deforestation to enhance the decision‐making of road construction projects	40
Regional analysis of aluminum and steel flows into the American automotive industry	39
A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps	39
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model	38
Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods	38
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition	37
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency	37
Measuring the “side effects” of tungsten recycling: Evidence from life cycle assessment	37
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export	35

Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries	35
Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis	34
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Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	33
Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study	32
Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?	32
Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	32
Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry	30
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland	29
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)	29
Identification of dissipative emissions for improved assessment of metal resources in life cycle assessment	29
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases	28
Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators	28
The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China	26
Integrating vehicle‐to‐grid technology into energy system models: Novel methods and their impact on greenhouse gas emissions	25
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach	25
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry	25
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy	25
What would it take to establish a take‐back scheme for fishing gear? Insights from a comparative analysis of fishing gear and beverage containers	24
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments	24
Environmental assessment of discarded plastic caps as a honeycomb core: An eco‐mechanical perspective	24
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis	24
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	24
Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes	24
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade	23
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models	23
Plastic packaging flows in Europe: A hybrid input‐output approach	23
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	22
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology	21
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach	21
Corrigendum to Wietschel et al. (2021). Environmental benefits of large‐scale second‐generation bioethanol production in the EU. Journal of Industrial Ecology 25(3): 677–692	21
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union	21
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	21
The mediating role of functionality orientation for purchasing remanufactured products: Cases in China, Indonesia, and Thailand	21
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability	20
PIOT‐Hub ‐ A collaborative cloud tool for generation of physical input–output tables using mechanistic engineering models	20
The role of community‐based learning in teaching about industrial ecology and sustainability in the context of engineering education: A case study from the field	20
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies	20
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens	20
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	20
Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings	19
Industrial metabolism analysis of a Chinese wine industry chain based on material flow and input–output analyses	19
Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India	19
The impact of biogas production on the organic carbon input to the soil of Dutch dairy farms: A substance flow analysis	19
Whole‐process and multi‐stakeholder‐based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development	19
A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory	19
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda	19
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities	18
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component	18

Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–2021	18
Tannin‐based bio‐adhesives for the wood panel industry as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical resins	18
A generalized framework for analyzing car lifetime effects on stock, flow, and carbon footprint	17
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Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	17
How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?	17
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries	17
Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method	17
Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains	17
Cycling and reciprocity in weighted food webs and economic networks	16
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda	16
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)	16
A terminology for downcycling	16
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology	16
Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution	16
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing	16
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States	16
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	15
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States	15
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application	15
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	15
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions	15
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?	15
System dynamics modeling of the global nickel supply system at a mine‐level resolution: Toward prospective dynamic criticality and resilience data	15
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	14
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling	14
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	14
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China	14
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators	14
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE	14
“When we got divorced, I left all my things behind.”: How the lifespan of household goods is linked to the biographical trajectory of their owners	14
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles	14
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	13
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 Goals	13
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments	13
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Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge	13
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution	13
Stand‐alone power‐to‐X production dynamics: A multi‐method approach to quantify the emission‐cost reduction trade‐off	13
Materials footprint of household consumption in China	13
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam	13
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis	13
Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study	12
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains	12
The PIOLab: Building global physical input–output tables in a virtual laboratory	12
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 2	12
An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe	12
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts	12
Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives	12
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus	12
Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead	12
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors	12
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing	12
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Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability	12
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The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective	11
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development	11
A mechanistic model to link technical specifications of vehicle end‐of‐life treatment with the potential of closed‐loop recycling of post‐consumer scrap alloys	11
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany	11
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward	11
Estimation of entity‐level land use and its application in urban sectoral land use footprint: A bottom‐up model with emerging geospatial data	11
Life cycle assessment of CO₂ conversion and storage in metal–CO₂ electrochemical cells	11
Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts	11
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	11
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data	11
Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway	11
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle	11
Circular economy: A new research field?	11