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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	70
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa	67
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)	62
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing	62
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions	60
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK	60
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods	51
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites	51
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure	48
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	46
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	42
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	42
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	42
Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process	41
Regional analysis of aluminum and steel flows into the American automotive industry	40
Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock	40
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	40
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model	39
Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis	38
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition	37
Addressing the contributions of electricity from biomass in Brazil in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals using life cycle assessment methods	36
Quo vadisMFA? Integrated material flow analysis to support material efficiency	35
Measuring the “side effects” of tungsten recycling: Evidence from life cycle assessment	34
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export	34

Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries	34
A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps	34
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	33
Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	32
Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators	31
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland	30
A political industrial ecology of water in Bodh Gaya, India: Pre‐ and Post‐the World Heritage designation	29
Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study	29
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Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?	29
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)	28
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Assessing resource efficiency in Vietnam: Insights from material stock and flow indicators	28
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Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States	27
Reuse in dynamic life cycle assessment at building scale: A Swiss case	27
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases	26
Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry	26
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models	25
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy	25
Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes	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
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis	24
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	23
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach	23
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments	23
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	23
The dynamic characteristics of multi‐media carbon pollution and their spatial influencing factors: A case study of the Greater Bay Area of China	23
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry	23
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade	23
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union	22
Forecasting heterogeneous risk diffusion in the carbon neutral integrated energy system: A case study of China	22
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	22
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology	22
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	22
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens	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 field	21
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability	21
How has urban metabolism research contributed to urban resilience? A conceptual review of practices	21
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach	21
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies	20
From variance to value: Stabilizing circular exchanges in industrial symbiosis networks	20
Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method	20
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	20
Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India	20
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities	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
Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings	19
Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains	19

How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?	19
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component	18
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda	18
Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–2021	18
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology	17
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries	17
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Forecasting sustainability implications of material innovations: Lessons from an illustrative case study on photochromic textiles	17
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	17
Cycling and reciprocity in weighted food webs and economic networks	16
Embedding circularity in the water supply chain: A circularity indicator dashboard for water	16
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application	16
A gender perspective on the circular economy: A literature review and research agenda	16
Shifting wood between material and energy use: Modeling the effects of substitution	16
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States	16
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)	16
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?	16
A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	15
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing	15
“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	15
A terminology for downcycling	15
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	15
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	15
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles	14
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis	14
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	14
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States	14
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments	14
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam	14
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	14
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	14
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling	14
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions	14
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators	14
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution	14
System dynamics modeling of the global nickel supply system at a mine‐level resolution: Toward prospective dynamic criticality and resilience data	13
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Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability	13
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing	13
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors	13
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE	13
Stand‐alone power‐to‐X production dynamics: A multi‐method approach to quantify the emission‐cost reduction trade‐off	13
Mapping nationwide material stock turnover: High‐resolution spatial analysis of building material stock and flow patterns across Japan 2003–2020	13
Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives	13
An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe	13
Aligning lithium‐ion battery durability with consumer needs: A data‐driven analysis of consumption behavior	13
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China	13
Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge	13
Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study	13
Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead	13
Materials footprint of household consumption in China	13
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The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective	12
WindTrace: Assessing the environmental impacts of wind energy designs with a parametric life cycle inventory model	12
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	12
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data	12
Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains	12
Life cycle assessment of insulated fish transport systems in India	12
Modeling critical raw materials in electric micromobility batteries in Finland	12
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany	12
Advancing absolute environmental sustainability assessment: Introducing the first technical guidance and a call for feedback	12
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts	12
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Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway	12
Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts	12
Life cycle assessment of CO₂ conversion and storage in metal–CO₂ electrochemical cells	12
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus	12
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development	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	11
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Intentions of housing developers to reuse wood materials in buildings	11
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Non‐implementation as a driver of circular economy evolution: A Luhmannian systems‐theoretical perspective	11
Circular economy: A new research field?	11
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward	11
In‐use dissipation of technology‐critical elements from vehicles and renewable energy technologies in Vienna, Austria: A public health matter?	11
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	11
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle	11
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Powering the circular future: Climate change and economic perspectives on second‐life batteries in the Belgian context	11