Alexander Passer

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Alexander Passer is a scholar working on Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering and Civil and Structural Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Passer has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Building and Construction, 70 papers in Environmental Engineering and 21 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexander Passer's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (69 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (62 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (21 papers). Alexander Passer is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (69 papers), Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (62 papers) and Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (21 papers). Alexander Passer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Denmark and Switzerland. Alexander Passer's co-authors include Martin Röck, Guillaume Habert, Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade, Endrit Hoxha, Helmuth Kreiner, Thomas Lützkendorf, Harpa Birgisdóttir, Rolf Frischknecht, Maria Balouktsi and Alexander Hollberg and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Passer

111 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Embodied GHG emissions of buildings – The hidden challenge for effective climate change mitigation

2019 726 citations Martin Röck, Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Passer Austria	26	2.5k	1.8k	325	258	206	121	3.3k
Harpa Birgisdóttir Denmark	29	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	280 0.9×	617 2.4×	161 0.8×	120	3.5k
Amaryllis Audenaert Belgium	27	1.6k 0.6×	909 0.5×	376 1.2×	287 1.1×	100 0.5×	102	2.7k
Alice Moncaster United Kingdom	21	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	184 0.6×	599 2.3×	94 0.5×	68	2.7k
Holger Wallbaum Sweden	29	1.6k 0.6×	831 0.5×	284 0.9×	202 0.8×	79 0.4×	130	2.5k
Ignacio Zabalza Spain	22	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	277 0.9×	145 0.6×	118 0.6×	57	2.9k
Graham Treloar Australia	26	1.7k 0.7×	2.3k 1.2×	161 0.5×	351 1.4×	171 0.8×	50	3.3k
Thomas Lützkendorf Germany	26	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	106 0.3×	244 0.9×	168 0.8×	90	2.9k
Ben Amor Canada	30	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	304 0.9×	578 2.2×	79 0.4×	74	2.9k
Robert H. Crawford Australia	42	3.4k 1.3×	3.0k 1.7×	459 1.4×	492 1.9×	260 1.3×	140	5.4k
Alexander Hollberg Sweden	21	1.7k 0.7×	955 0.5×	206 0.6×	116 0.4×	145 0.7×	68	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Passer

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Steubing, Bernhard, et al.. (2025). Future Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenarios for the Austrian Building Stock: A Systematic Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(10). 4962–4973.

Obrecht, Tajda Potrč, et al.. (2025). The Impact of the Bill of Quantity Export Process from BIM on the Accuracy of the LCA Results. Sustainability. 17(20). 9354–9354.

Kreiner, Helmuth, et al.. (2024). Life cycle assessment of energy supply contracted heat supply systems: A case study from Austria. Energy and Buildings. 323. 114787–114787. 4 indexed citations

Saade, Marcella Ruschi Mendes, et al.. (2024). Systematising the LCA approaches’ soup: a framework based on text mining. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 29(9). 1621–1638. 5 indexed citations

Treyer, Karin, et al.. (2024). The Challenge of Modeling Tracked Electricity Consumption in EPDs: An Example for Building Materials. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 1363(1). 12026–12026.

Passer, Alexander, et al.. (2024). A Need for Sufficiency in the Built Environment: Prospective Life Cycle Assessment of the Austrian Building Stock. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 1363(1). 12002–12002. 3 indexed citations

Obrecht, Tajda Potrč, Marcella Ruschi Mendes Saade, Simone Gingrich, et al.. (2024). Linking forest carbon opportunity costs and greenhouse gas emission substitution effects of wooden buildings: The climate optimum concept. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 51. 612–627. 7 indexed citations

Mastrucci, Alessio, et al.. (2024). Whole-life greenhouse gas emission reduction and removal strategies for buildings: Impacts and diffusion potentials across EU Member States. Journal of Environmental Management. 370. 122915–122915. 12 indexed citations

Lützkendorf, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Identifying uncertainties in the whole life carbon assessment of buildings: Sources, types, and potential actions. Building and Environment. 244. 110779–110779. 17 indexed citations

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Röck, Martin, et al.. (2023). Carbon budget for national building stock life-cycle emissions: a novel approach. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 2600(15). 152004–152004. 5 indexed citations

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Soust-Verdaguer, Bernardette, et al.. (2023). The Use of Environmental Product Declarations of Construction Products as a Data Source to Conduct a Building Life-Cycle Assessment in Spain. Sustainability. 15(2). 1284–1284. 20 indexed citations

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Saade, Marcella Ruschi Mendes, et al.. (2023). Environmental potential of fungal insulation: a prospective life cycle assessment of mycelium-based composites. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 29(2). 255–272. 29 indexed citations

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Hoxha, Endrit, et al.. (2022). A hierarchical reference-based know-why model for design support of sustainable building envelopes. Automation in Construction. 139. 104276–104276. 16 indexed citations

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Hoxha, Endrit, Diego Maria Barbieri, Feiliang Wang, et al.. (2020). Life cycle assessment of roads: Exploring research trends and harmonization challenges. The Science of The Total Environment. 759. 143506–143506. 62 indexed citations

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Saade, Marcella Ruschi Mendes, Alexander Passer, & Florian Mittermayr. (2019). (Sprayed) concrete production in life cycle assessments: a systematic literature review. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 25(2). 188–207. 12 indexed citations

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Kreiner, Helmuth, et al.. (2019). Austrian Universities and the Sustainable Development Goals. IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science. 323(1). 12156–12156. 10 indexed citations

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Kreiner, Helmuth, et al.. (2018). ingREes - Setting up Qualification and Continuing Education and Training Scheme for Middle and Senior Level Professionals on Energy Efficiency and Use of Renewable Energy Sources in Buildings. 1 indexed citations

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Kreiner, Helmuth, et al.. (2017). Applicability of Maturity Assessment for Sustainable Construction. 2155–2160. 2 indexed citations

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Passer, Alexander, et al.. (2016). The impact of future scenarios on building refurbishment strategies towards plus energy buildings. Energy and Buildings. 124. 153–163. 104 indexed citations

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Malmqvist, Tove, Harpa Birgisdóttir, Aoife Houlihan Wiberg, et al.. (2014). Design strategies for low embodied energy and carbon in buildings: analyses of the IEA Annex 57 case studies.. VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet). 4 indexed citations

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