OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Industrial Ecology is 12. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	73
The landscape of city‐level GHG emission accounts in Africa	69
Local terrestrial biodiversity impacts in life cycle assessment: A case study of sedum roofs in London, UK	65
Tradeoffs and synergy between material cycles and greenhouse gas emissions: Opportunities in a rapidly growing housing stock	64
Client‐side energy and GHGs assessment of advertising and tracking in the news websites	64
Quantifying a virtual water metabolic network of the Metropolitan District of Quito, Ecuador using ecological network methods	63
Carbon footprinting for hospital care pathways based on routine diagnosis‐related group (DRG) accounting data in Germany: An application to acute decompensated heart failure	56
Mass, enthalpy, and chemical‐derived emission flows in mineral processing	51
Machine learning‐assisted industrial symbiosis: Testing the ability of word vectors to estimate similarity for material substitutions	49
A battery modeling platform for broad, consistent, and automated life cycle assessments and cost studies (B‐LEAP)	49
Using cumulative carbon budgets and corporate carbon disclosure to inform ambitious corporate emissions targets and long‐term mitigation pathways	45
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	45
The influence of consumer behavior on the environmental footprint of passenger car tires	44
Review: Leather sustainability, an industrial ecology in process	43
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	42
Assessing the social dimension in strategic network optimization for a sustainable development: The case of bioethanol production in the EU	42
Regional sensitivity analysis to assess critical parameters in circular economy interventions: An application to the dynamic MFA model	41
Biophysical economic interpretation of the Great Depression: A critical period of an energy transition	41
When one cannot bypass the byproducts: Plastic packaging waste embedded in production and export	40
Exploring the global trade networks of the tungsten supply chain: Insights into the physical and monetary mismatch among countries	38
Measuring the “side effects” of tungsten recycling: Evidence from life cycle assessment	37
Evaluation of environmental and economic implications of a cold‐weather aquaponic food production system using life cycle assessment and economic analysis	36
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

Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	34
A data‐centric investigation on the challenges of machine learning methods for bridging life cycle inventory data gaps	34
Regional analysis of aluminum and steel flows into the American automotive industry	34
Assessing circularity of wastewater treatment systems: A critical review of indicators	33
Characterizing IT asset disposition flows for the circular economy: A case study on export for reuse from Ireland	32
Life cycle assessment of pig iron production from bauxite residue: A European case study	31
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Look before you leap: Are increased recycling efforts accelerating microplastic pollution?	30
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Spatio‐temporal impact of land use changes on nitrogen emissions in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area	29
Disentangling social impacts in global value chains through structural path analysis: Investigating forced labor in the cotton industry	29
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Institutionalization of circular business models in the United States	28
Reuse in dynamic life cycle assessment at building scale: A Swiss case	28
A political industrial ecology of water in Bodh Gaya, India: Pre‐ and Post‐the World Heritage designation	28
Assessing resource efficiency in Vietnam: Insights from material stock and flow indicators	27
Deriving material composition of products using life cycle inventory databases	26
The mathematics of the ecological footprint revisited: An axiomatic approach	26
Scheme for generating upscaling scenarios of emerging functional materials based energy technologies in prospective LCA (UpFunMatLCA)	26
Winners of the 2022 Graedel Prizes: The Journal of Industrial Ecology Best Paper Prizes	26
Embedded but overlooked values: Ethical aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessments	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
Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy	24
Forecasting heterogeneous risk diffusion in the carbon neutral integrated energy system: A case study of China	24
Life‐cycle energy and environmental emissions of cargo ships	23
Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade	23
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	23
Environmental analysis of returnable packaging systems in different eCommerce business and packaging management models	23
Social life cycle assessment and its methodological challenges: A bibliometric and content analysis	23
Lithium‐ion battery cell production in Europe: Scenarios for reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions until 2030	23
An integrative and prospective approach to regional material flow analysis: Modeling the decarbonization of the North Rhine‐Westphalian steel industry	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
How has urban metabolism research contributed to urban resilience? A conceptual review of practices	22
From variance to value: Stabilizing circular exchanges in industrial symbiosis networks	22
Biodiversity finance: Sovereign biodiversity loss drivers and financial stability	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
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	21
Introducing digital tools for sustainable food supply management: Tackling food loss and waste in industrial canteens	21
Estimating the carbon footprint of digital agriculture deployment: A parametric bottom‐up modeling approach	21
Unraveling the complexity of extended producer responsibility policy mix design, implementation, and transfer dynamics in the European Union	21
A sensitivity analysis of the Earth for all model: Getting the giant leap scenario with fewer policies	21
The future of artificial intelligence in the context of industrial ecology	21
Value creation and the circular economy: A tale of three externalities	20
A bottom‐up ontology‐based approach to monitor circular economy: Aligning user expectations, tools, data and theory	20
Life cycle assessment and role of circular economy: The case of fertilizer industry in India	20
Characterizing the spatiotemporal evolution of building material stock in China's Greater Bay Area: A statistical regression method	19
Are Peruvians moving toward healthier diets with lower environmental burden? Household consumption trends for the period 2008–2021	19
Life cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions implications of polyamide 12 recycling from selective laser sintering for an injection‐molded automotive component	19
Whole‐process and multi‐stakeholder‐based solid waste management framework construction for industrial parks: Toward circular economy development	19
Weighing the global built environment: High‐resolution mapping and quantification of material stocks in buildings	19

How much sorting is required for a circular low carbon aluminum economy?	19
Are future recycling benefits misleading? Prospective life cycle assessment of lithium‐ion batteries	18
Embedding circularity in the water supply chain: A circularity indicator dashboard for water	17
Forecasting sustainability implications of material innovations: Lessons from an illustrative case study on photochromic textiles	17
Spanning the industrial symbiosis within the circular economy: Critical issues and future research agenda	17
From silicon shield to carbon lock‐in? The environmental footprint of electronic components manufacturing in Taiwan (2015–2020)	17
Mapping the global mass flow of seaweed: Cultivation to industry application	17
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Quantifying the drivers of long‐term prices in materials supply chains	17
Embodied GHG of missing middle: Residential building form and strategies for more efficient housing	17
Assessing recycling, displacement, and environmental impacts using an economics‐informed material system model	17
Unpacking the path toward a sustainable circular economy through industrial ecology	17
A terminology for downcycling	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
Data implementation matters: Effect of software choice and LCI database evolution on a comparative LCA study of permanent magnets	16
Issue Information, Cover, and Table of Contents	16
Streamlined approach for assessing embedded consumption of lithium and cobalt in the United States	16
Environmental rating ecolabels: How does product categorization affect product ratings and potential interpretation?	16
The greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction potential of ICT: A critical review of telecommunication companies’ GHG enablement assessments	15
Regionalizing the supply chain in process life cycle inventory with multiregional input–output data: An implementation for ecoinvent with EXIOBASE	15
Enhancing institutional capacity in a centralized state: The case of industrial water use efficiency in Vietnam	15
Analyzing the scope and effectiveness of business‐level circularity indicators	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
The “nature” and “nurture” of product lifetimes in dynamic stock modeling	15
Life‐cycle greenhouse gas emissions associated with nuclear power generation in the United States	15
Material system analysis: Functional and nonfunctional cobalt in the EU, 2012–2016	14
Stand‐alone power‐to‐X production dynamics: A multi‐method approach to quantify the emission‐cost reduction trade‐off	14
Carbon performance and corporate financial performance during crises: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis	14
Consumer practices regarding the purchase, use, willingness to repair, and disposal of small electric and electronic equipment: A Spanish survey on kettles	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
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A framework to open the black box of the use phase in circular economy life cycle assessments: The case of shell jacket reuse	14
How do carbon footprints from LCA and EEIOA databases compare? A comparison of ecoinvent and EXIOBASE	14
A matter of timing: System requirements for repair and their temporal dimensions	14
System dynamics modeling of the global nickel supply system at a mine‐level resolution: Toward prospective dynamic criticality and resilience data	14
Using information flow analysis to establish key data gaps in the assessment of marine microplastic pollution	14
Impacts of water conservation, wastewater treatment, and reuse on water quantity and quality stress mitigation in China	14
Book review of Material matters: Developing business for a circular economy by ThomasRau and SabineOberhuber, Routledge	14
Unlocking the potential of the bioeconomy for climate change reduction: The optimal use of lignocellulosic biomass in Germany	13
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Deep‐sea nodules versus land ores: A comparative systems analysis of mining and processing wastes for battery‐metal supply chains	13
Materials footprint of household consumption in China	13
Mapping nationwide material stock turnover: High‐resolution spatial analysis of building material stock and flow patterns across Japan 2003–2020	13
Additive inclusion in plastic life cycle assessments, part II: Review of additive inventory data trends and availability	13
The differential impact of COVID‐19 on Belgian household carbon footprints: A gender perspective	13
Non‐implementation as a driver of circular economy evolution: A Luhmannian systems‐theoretical perspective	13
The environmental performance of plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Current and future key factors	13
Recycling potential of secondary resources in built environment stocks: Evidence from Hong Kong public rental housing	13
Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study	13
Aligning lithium‐ion battery durability with consumer needs: A data‐driven analysis of consumption behavior	13
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Life cycle assessment of CO₂ conversion and storage in metal–CO₂ electrochemical cells	13
Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data	13
An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe	13
Assessing company sustainability impact: Status quo and way ahead	13
Policy instruments' effectiveness for facilitating industrial symbiosis: A UK–China comparative study from firms' perspectives	13
Assessing biodiversity‐related disclosure: Drivers, outcomes, and financial impacts	13
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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 2	12
WindTrace: Assessing the environmental impacts of wind energy designs with a parametric life cycle inventory model	12
Potentials and limits of mechanical plastic recycling	12
Between the lines: Life cycle impact assessment models of collision and electrocution impacts of power lines on bird diversity in Norway	12
Modeling critical raw materials in electric micromobility batteries in Finland	12
Life cycle assessment of insulated fish transport systems in India	12
Circular economy: A new research field?	12
Agent‐based modeling and simulation for the circular economy: Lessons learned and path forward	12
Advancing absolute environmental sustainability assessment: Introducing the first technical guidance and a call for feedback	12
The Bahamas at risk: Material stocks, sea‐level rise, and the implications for development	12
Reflecting the importance of human needs fulfilment in absolute sustainability assessments: Development of a sharing principle	12
Optimization of the end‐of‐life tire repartition within the European treatment system to minimize its environmental impacts	12