Most cited papers in Sustainable Design and Development
What are the most cited papers in Sustainable Design and Development?
The most cited paper in Sustainable Design and Development is "Developing the circular economy in China: Challenges and opportunities for achieving 'leapfrog development'" (Yong Geng, Brent Doberstein, 2008), with 852 citations. Next come "Transition Design: A Proposal for a New Area of Design Practice, Study, and Research" (532) and "Materials selection and design for development of sustainable products" (475).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 73 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Developing the circular economy in China: Challenges and opportunities for achieving 'leapfrog development' Yong Geng, Brent Doberstein · International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology | Jun 2008 | 852 |
| 2 | Transition Design: A Proposal for a New Area of Design Practice, Study, and Research Terry Irwin · Design and Culture | 3 Apr 2015 | 532 |
| 3 | Materials selection and design for development of sustainable products Lennart Y. Ljungberg · Materials & Design (1980-2015) | 2 Dec 2005 | 475 |
| 4 | Bio-nanocomposite Materials for Food Packaging Applications: Types of Biopolymer and Nano-sized Filler Siti Hajar Othman · Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia | 2014 | 443 |
| 5 | Sustainable and Bio-Based Food Packaging: A Review on Past and Current Design Innovations Florencia Versino, Florencia Ortega, Yuliana Monroy et al. · Foods | 2 Mar 2023 | 409 |
| 6 | What is stopping sustainable building in England? Barriers experienced by stakeholders in delivering sustainable developments Katie Williams, Carol Dair · Sustainable Development | 26 Sep 2006 | 377 |
| 7 | Curauá fibers in the automobile industry – a sustainability assessment Rainer Zah, Roland Hischier, Alcides Lopes Leão et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 21 Nov 2006 | 355 |
| 8 | Community action for sustainable housing: Building a low-carbon future Gill Seyfang · Energy Policy | 16 Nov 2009 | 340 |
| 9 | Design for sustainable behaviour: strategies and perceptions Debra Lilley · Design Studies | 15 Jun 2009 | 318 |
| 10 | Circular economy indicators for organizations considering sustainability and business models: Plastic, textile and electro-electronic cases Efigênia Rossi, Ana Carolina Bertassini, Camila dos Santos Ferreira et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 4 Nov 2019 | 292 |
| 11 | Construction and built environment in circular economy: A comprehensive literature review Ömer Çimen · Journal of Cleaner Production | 21 Apr 2021 | 272 |
| 12 | Cleaner Production in the textile industry and its relationship to sustainable development goals Geraldo Cardoso de Oliveira Neto, José Manoel Ferreira Correia, Paulo Cesar Silva et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 25 Apr 2019 | 267 |
| 13 | Sustainable building solutions: a review of lessons from the natural world Godfaurd Adjaie John, Derek J. Clements-Croome, George Jeronimidis · Building and Environment | 25 Sep 2004 | 241 |
| 14 | Application of plastics and paper as food packaging materials ? An overview Dele Raheem · Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture | 3 Dec 2012 | 232 |
| 15 | Ecodesign tools for designers: defining the requirements Vicky Lofthouse · Journal of Cleaner Production | 2006 | 228 |
| 16 | Design + Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods Helen Lewis, John Gertsakis, Tim Grant et al. | 8 Oct 2001 | 225 |
| 17 | Sustainable Development by Design: Review of Life Cycle Design and Related Approaches Gregory A. Keoleian, Dan Menerey · Air & Waste | May 1994 | 204 |
| 18 | Environmental innovation in industrial packaging: a supply chain approach Karli Verghese, Helen Lewis · International Journal of Production Research | 4 Sep 2007 | 204 |
| 19 | Packaging design for the circular economy: A systematic review Zicheng Zhu, Wei Liu, Songhe Ye et al. · Sustainable Production and Consumption | 3 Jun 2022 | 199 |
| 20 | The treadmill of production and the environmental state Allan Schnaiberg, David Naguib Pellow, Adam S. Weinberg · Research in social problems and public policy | 11 Mar 2005 | 197 |
| 21 | Circular cities: exploring local government strategies to facilitate a circular economy Kathleen Bolger, Andréanne Doyon · European Planning Studies | 17 Jul 2019 | 193 |
| 22 | Circular Building Design: An Analysis of Barriers and Drivers for a Circular Building Sector Jouri Kanters · Buildings | 16 Apr 2020 | 187 |
| 23 | Elucidating the Indirect Contributions of Packaging to Sustainable Development: A Terminology of Packaging Functions and Features Helena Lindh, Helén Williams, Annika Olsson et al. · Packaging Technology and Science | 24 Feb 2016 | 183 |
| 24 | Life cycle analysis of environmental impacts of earthen materials in the Portuguese context: Rammed earth and compressed earth blocks Jorge Fernandes, Marco Antônio Peixoto, Ricardo Filipe Mesquita Silva Mateus et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 6 Sep 2019 | 177 |
| 25 | Tools for Sustainable Product Design: Additive Manufacturing Olaf Diegel, Sarat Singamneni, Stephen Reay et al. · Journal of Sustainable Development | 19 Aug 2010 | 169 |
| 26 | Framework for Sustainable Food Packaging Design Kaisa Grönman, Risto Soukka, Terhen Järvi‐Kääriäinen et al. · Packaging Technology and Science | 3 May 2012 | 168 |
| 27 | Earth as construction material in the circular economy context: practitioner perspectives on barriers to overcome Jean‐Claude Morel, Rabia Charef, Erwan Hamard et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 4 Aug 2021 | 165 |
| 28 | Many Happy Returns: Combining insights from the environmental and behavioural sciences to understand what is required to make reusable packaging mainstream Sarah C. Greenwood, Stuart Walker, Harriet M. Baird et al. · Sustainable Production and Consumption | 24 Mar 2021 | 159 |
| 29 | Radical Innovation as a Multilevel Process: Introducing Floating Grain Elevators in the Port of Rotterdam Hugo van Driel, Johan Schot · Technology and Culture | 2005 | 158 |
| 30 | Environmental and Economic Viability of Chitosan Production in Guayas-Ecuador: A Robust Investment and Life Cycle Analysis Ariel Riofrio, Tania Alcivar, Haci Baykara · ACS Omega | 2 Sep 2021 | 156 |
| 31 | Application of circular economy principles in buildings: A systematic review Noah Gethsemane Akhimien, Eshrar Latif, Shan Shan Hou · Journal of Building Engineering | 3 Dec 2020 | 155 |
| 32 | Current situation and key manufacturing considerations of green furniture in China: A review Xianqing Xiong, Qingru Ma, YingyingYuan et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 11 May 2020 | 153 |
| 33 | Emerging trends in biomaterials for sustainable food packaging: A comprehensive review Md. Zobair Al Mahmud, Md Hosne Mobarak, Nayem Hossain · Heliyon | 2024 | 151 |
| 34 | Optimizing Urban Material Flows and Waste Streams in Urban Development through Principles of Zero Waste and Sustainable Consumption Steffen Lehmann · Sustainability | 11 Jan 2011 | 148 |
| 35 | Social aspect of sustainable packaging Norbisimi Nordin, Susan E. M. Selke · Packaging Technology and Science | 5 May 2010 | 147 |
| 36 | Circular economy in the built environment: A systematic literature review and definition of the circular construction concept Felipe Ossio, Carlos Salinas, Héctor Hernández · Journal of Cleaner Production | 7 Jun 2023 | 146 |
| 37 | Territorial Organization and the Space/Technology Nexus Erik A. Swyngedouw · Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | 1992 | 146 |
| 38 | The Role of Green Building Materials in Reducing Environmental and Human Health Impacts Seyed Meysam Khoshnava, Raheleh Rostami, Rosli Mohamad Zin et al. · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 10 Apr 2020 | 143 |
| 39 | Circular economy in Latin America: A systematic literature review Claudia Marcela Betancourt Morales, Jhon Wilder Zartha Sossa · Business Strategy and the Environment | 29 May 2020 | 139 |
| 40 | Wood as a building material in the light of environmental assessment of full life cycle of four buildings Grzegorz Pajchrowski, A. Noskowiak, Anna Lewandowska et al. · Construction and Building Materials | 10 Dec 2013 | 138 |
| 41 | Biopolymers: A suitable replacement for plastics in product packaging Kunle O. Babaremu, Oluseyi Philip Oladijo, Esther T. Akinlabi · Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer Research | 13 Jan 2023 | 136 |
| 42 | New design knowledge Ezio Manzini · Design Studies | 23 Nov 2008 | 135 |
| 43 | Carbon footprint considerations for biocomposite materials for sustainable products: A review Juan P. Correa‐Aguirre, Juan Manuel Montalvo-Navarrete, Miguel A. Hidalgo‐Salazar · Journal of Cleaner Production | 12 Oct 2018 | 128 |
| 44 | The Role of HR in Achieving a Sustainability Culture Jay Liebowitz · Journal of Sustainable Development | 22 Nov 2010 | 127 |
| 45 | Material reuse in buildings: Implications of a circular business model for sustainable value creation Julia L.K. Nußholz, Freja Nygaard Rasmussen, Katherine A. Whalen et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 30 Sep 2019 | 125 |
| 46 | Sustainable strategies analysis through Life Cycle Assessment: a case study in a furniture industry Diego Rodrigues Iritani, Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva, Yovana María Barrera Saavedra et al. · Journal of Cleaner Production | 17 May 2014 | 125 |
| 47 | Designing cradle-to-cradle products: a reality check Conny A. Bakker, Renee Wever, Ch. Teoh et al. · International Journal of Sustainable Engineering | 10 Nov 2009 | 122 |
| 48 | Challenges and opportunities in a circular economy for a local productive arrangement of furniture in Brazil Fábio Ribeiro de Oliveira, Sérgio Luiz Braga França, Luís Alberto Duncan Rangel · Resources Conservation and Recycling | 3 Nov 2017 | 115 |
| 49 | Green Urbanism: Formulating a Series of Holistic Principles Steffen Lehmann · OpenEdition (OpenEdition) | 9 Sep 2010 | 115 |
| 50 | Life Cycle Design: from general methods to product type specific guidelines and checklists: a method adopted to develop a set of guidelines/checklist handbook for the eco-efficient design of NECTA vending machines Carlo Arnaldo Vezzoli, Dalia Sciama · Journal of Cleaner Production | 2006 | 114 |
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