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Life Cycle Costing Analysis

Life Cycle Costing Analysis is a research topic within Accounting. Science Explorer counts 5k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the application of life cycle costing in construction and infrastructure projects, including the evaluation of total cost of ownership, sustainable development, asset management, and energy efficiency. It explores methodologies, barriers, and benefits of life cycle costing in the building and transportation sectors.

  • Life Cycle Costing
  • Total Cost of Ownership
  • Building Industry
  • Infrastructure Design
  • Sustainable Development
  • Asset Management
  • Whole Life Cost
  • Cost Analysis
  • Energy Efficiency
  • Construction Industry
Research works
5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
507
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Life Cycle Costing Analysis

Which countries lead Life Cycle Costing Analysis research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (112 and 93 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 112 works
  2. 2 United States 93 works
  3. 3 India 78 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 59 works
  5. 5 Italy 43 works
  6. 6 Germany 42 works
  7. 7 Brazil 40 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 39 works
  9. 9 Poland 34 works
  10. 10 Nepal 28 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 19.7%United States: 16.3%India: 13.8%Indonesia: 10.3%6 others listed: 39.9%20%largest
China112 · 19.7%United States93 · 16.3%India78 · 13.8%Indonesia59 · 10.3%6 others listed227 · 39.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Life Cycle Costing Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tribhuvan University publishes the most Life Cycle Costing Analysis research, followed by University of Johannesburg and Politecnico di Milano.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 8 works
  2. 2 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 7 works
  3. 3 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 7 works
  4. 4 Czech Technical University in PragueCzechia 6 works
  5. 5 Pokhara UniversityNepal 6 works
  6. 6 Mercu Buana UniversityIndonesia 5 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 5 works
  8. 8 Beihang UniversityChina 5 works
  9. 9 Technical University of DenmarkDenmark 4 works
  10. 10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 4 works

What are the most cited papers in Life Cycle Costing Analysis?

The most cited paper in Life Cycle Costing Analysis is "A review on buildings energy consumption information" (Luis Pérez‐Lombard, José Ortiz, Christine Pout, 2007), with 6,641 citations. Next come "The multivariate skew-normal distribution" (1,678) and "Life cycle energy analysis of buildings: An overview" (1,413).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A review on buildings energy consumption information Luis Pérez‐Lombard, José Ortiz, Christine Pout · Energy and Buildings Open access 16 Mar 2007 6,641
2 The multivariate skew-normal distribution Adelchi Azzalini · Biometrika Dec 1996 1,678
3 Life cycle energy analysis of buildings: An overview Thillaigovindan Ramesh, Ravi Prakash, Karunesh Kumar Shukla · Energy and Buildings 27 May 2010 1,413
4 Sustainability in the construction industry: A review of recent developments based on LCA Oscar Ortiz, Francesc Castells, Guido Sonnemann · Construction and Building Materials 22 Feb 2008 1,343
5 Life cycle assessment of building materials: Comparative analysis of energy and environmental impacts and evaluation of the eco-efficiency improvement potential Ignacio Zabalza, Antonio Valero Capilla, Alfonso Aranda Usón · Building and Environment Open access 10 Dec 2010 1,284
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Where is Life Cycle Costing Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Life Cycle Costing Analysis research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Kathmandu (Nepal), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 24 works
  2. 2 KathmanduNepal 18 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 14 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 11 works
  5. 5 WarsawPoland 10 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 9 works
  7. 7 LisbonPortugal 9 works
  8. 8 PragueCzechia 8 works
  9. 9 JohannesburgSouth Africa 8 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 8 works
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Where is the best place to study Life Cycle Costing Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Tribhuvan University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 10.04.2%11.9×8 +138.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Life Cycle Costing Analysis, country by country

Is Life Cycle Costing Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Life Cycle Costing Analysis.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Life Cycle Costing Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Life Cycle Costing Analysis over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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