Overview
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment is the first journal devoted entirely to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and closely related methods. LCA has become a recognized instrument to assess the ecological burdens and impacts throughout the consecutive and interlinked stages of a product system, from raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources, through production and use to final disposal. The journal is a forum for scientists developing LCA and LCM (Life Cycle Management); LCA and LCM practitioners; managers concerned with environmental aspects of products; governmental environmental agencies responsible for product quality; scientific and industrial societies involved in LCA development, and ecological institutions and bodies.
- Includes papers on LCA methodology; social and political acceptance; governmental activities and examples from industrial applications.
- Also presents historical sketches, short version of actual LCAs and case studies.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Matthias Finkbeiner
- Journal Impact Factor
- 4.9 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 4.8 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 16 days
- Downloads
- 1,382,986 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Supporting the Sustainable Developmental Goals
We are proud to acknowledge that over 50% of the articles published in this journal in 2023 were related to one or more of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Call for papers for a Special Issue: How Digital Technologies Could Empower Life Cycle Assessment Studies
This Special Issue aims to stimulate debate among scholars, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers on how digital technologies can contribute to developing Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) studies.
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Call for papers for a Special Issue: The Social Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Organizations – Methodological Development and Implementations
The main goal of this special issue is to report on achieved methodological improvements in regard to the Social Life Cycle assessments of products and organizations, highlight further needs and challenges as well as to establish the current state of the art in terms of implementation and communication.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1614-7502
- Print ISSN
- 0948-3349
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