OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Sustainable Production and Consumption is 72. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Can consumers understand that there is more to palm oil than deforestation?	310
Financial costs and benefits of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil certification among independent smallholders: A probabilistic view of the Monte Carlo approach	246
Linking methodologies to assess climate impacts and circular economy strategies along supply chains	243
Decentralized production concepts for bio-based polymers - implications for supply chains, costs, and the carbon footprint	205
Redesigning traditional linear supply chains into circular supply chains–A study into its challenges	186
Beyond the life cycle: assessing business models for the circular economy through life-cycle-based methodologies	178
Calculating the true costs of protein sources by integrating environmental costs and market prices	175
Product destruction: Exploring unsustainable production-consumption systems and appropriate policy responses	173
How do circular start-ups achieve scale?	169
Comparative analysis of micro level indicators for evaluating the progress towards a circular economy	169
Quantifying the water-energy-food nexus in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions	168
Assessing methods for the production of renewable benzene	160
Circular economy disclosure in corporate sustainability reports: The case of European companies in sustainability rankings	159
Consumer behavior in circular business models: Unveiling conservation and rebound effects	149
Environmental and economic sustainability of additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review	146
Towards an integrated system modeling of water scarcity with projected changes in climate and socioeconomic conditions	140
Comparative life cycle assessment of circular and linear product versions for a motorboat and smartphone	134
Does Mexico have the agricultural land resources to feed its population with a healthy and sustainable diet?	133
Are air travelers willing to pay for mandatory carbon emission policies? Evidence from China	128
Enabling environmental sustainability and circularity assessment in technology development: The Value-Impact Scanner	124
Walk and chew gum: A demand and supply illustration of macro and micro net-zero initiatives for the automobile industry	121
Consumer concerns over food insecurity drive reduction in the carbon footprint of food consumption	117
Review of the current knowledge and identified gaps in assessing the social and environmental impacts of mining processes in the Lithium Triangle	117
Optimum operational lifespan of household appliances considering manufacturing and use stage improvements via life cycle assessment	116
Water and sludge resource planning for sustainable agriculture: An energy-water-food-waste nexus approach	116

Insect production as a novel alternative to livestock farming: Exploring interest and willingness to adopt among German farmers	114
Assessing the environmental impacts of rice in an anthropized Mediterranean wetland: Towards carbon farming	113
An integrated design method for used product remanufacturing scheme considering carbon emission	111
Unpacking the complexity of the UK plastic packaging value chain: A stakeholder perspective	108
Evaluating the environmental and economic sustainability of energy from anaerobic digestion of different feedstocks in Turkey	107
Exploring stakeholder collaboration based on the sustainability factors affecting the sharing economy	105
One Framework to Rule Them All: An Integrated, Multi-level and Scalable Performance Measurement Framework of Sustainability, Circular Economy and Industrial Symbiosis	103
Farmers' preferences for sustainable farmland construction — Insights from a discrete choice experiment in China	101
Food waste and the effects of waste reduction in China's catering industry	100
The synergistic role of carbon dioxide removal and emission reductions in achieving the Paris Agreement goal	100
Environment management policy implementation for sustainable industrial production under power asymmetry in the graph model	100
Unlocking synergies between waste management and climate change mitigation to accelerate decarbonization through circular-economy digitalization in Indonesia	97
A novel grey forecasting of greenhouse gas emissions from four industries of China and India	96
Technology transition strategies for textile-dyeing sludge management in China from the environmental and economic perspectives	95
Economic analysis of whole-county PV projects in China considering environmental benefits	95
Perspectives on food waste management: Prevention and social innovations	94
Acknowledgement of reviewers 2021	91
Social sustainability indicators: A comprehensive review with application in the energy sector	91
Combining life cycle assessment and dynamic qualitative comparative analysis to analyze the environmental impacts of urban development across different provinces in China	88
Reforming plastic packaging regulation: Outcomes from stakeholder interviews and regulatory analysis	87
Prosumerism for sustainability	87
Current status of agrivoltaic systems and their benefits to energy, food, environment, economy, and society	87
A risk-based multi-criteria decision-making framework for offshore green hydrogen system developments: Pathways for utilizing existing and new infrastructure	87
Reducing the environmental impacts of the production of melamine etherified resin fibre	86
A systematic literature review on circularity assessment indicators and frameworks in the built environment	86
Circular economy strategies as enablers for solar PV adoption in organizational market segments	85
Sustainable process synthesis, design, and analysis: Challenges and opportunities	85
Ecodesign coupled with Life Cycle Assessment to reduce the environmental impacts of an industrial enzymatic cleaner	85
Temporal dynamic assessment of household energy consumption and carbon emissions in China: From the perspective of occupants	82
A feasibility analysis on adopting electric vehicles in the short food supply chain based on GHG emissions and economic costs estimations	81
Optimization of food-fuel-fibre in biorefinery based on environmental and economic assessment: The case of sugarcane utilization in Thailand	80
Social sustainability of communities: A systematic literature review	80
Socio-techno-economic assessment to design an appropriate renewable energy system for remote agricultural communities in developing countries	80
Energy transition pathways for the Nigerian Road Transport: Implication for energy carrier, Powertrain technology, and CO2 emission	80
Coupling the digital twin technology and life cycle assessment: Carbon dioxide emissions from polysilicon production	78
Quantifying circular economy pathways of decommissioned onshore wind turbines: The case of Denmark and Germany	78
Enablers for circular ecosystem transformation: A multi-case study of Brazilian circular ecosystems	77
Conceptualizing circular economy policy instruments: The case of recycled content standards	76
How to reduce overpackaging of food in China: Analysis based on evolutionary game	76
Integrating nutrition into environmental impact assessments reveals limited sustainable food options within planetary boundaries	76
Digitalizing shopping routines: Re-organizing household practices to enable sustainable food provisioning	76
Towards suitable practices for the integration of social life cycle assessment into the ecodesign framework of hydrogen-related products	76
Climate change impact of food distribution: The case of reverse logistics for bread in Sweden	75
The EU Bioeconomy Footprint: Using life cycle assessment to monitor environmental impacts of the EU Bioeconomy	75
The impact of the circular economy on sustainable development: A European panel data approach	75
Optimal design of the ecological compensation mechanism in transboundary river basins under the Belt and Road Initiative	73
Biogas and biohydrogen for net zero cooking and transportation in Bhutan	73