Carla Caldeira

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
33 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Carla Caldeira is a scholar working on Food Science, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carla Caldeira has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Food Science, 13 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Carla Caldeira's work include Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (14 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (9 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (8 papers). Carla Caldeira is often cited by papers focused on Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (14 papers), Municipal Solid Waste Management (9 papers) and Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (8 papers). Carla Caldeira collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Portugal and Belgium. Carla Caldeira's co-authors include Serenella Sala, Valeria De Laurentiis, Sara Corrado, Anestis Vlysidis, Jorge Cristóbal, Fausto Freire, Gianluca Fiore, Giuseppe Vignali, Gang Liu and Elsa Olivetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Carla Caldeira

32 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Quantification of food waste per product group along the food supply chain in the European Union: a mass flow analysis

2019 333 citations Carla Caldeira, Valeria De Laurentiis et al. Resources Conservation and Recycling profile →
The potential of emerging bio-based products to reduce environmental impacts

2023 89 citations Koen Kuipers, Carla Caldeira et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carla Caldeira Italy	20	729	345	277	251	235	33	1.6k
Guillermo Garcia‐Garcia United Kingdom	24	673 0.9×	245 0.7×	224 0.8×	158 0.6×	249 1.1×	62	2.0k
Sara Corrado Italy	18	905 1.2×	397 1.2×	143 0.5×	342 1.4×	250 1.1×	24	1.7k
Valeria De Laurentiis Italy	14	594 0.8×	263 0.8×	113 0.4×	275 1.1×	186 0.8×	23	1.3k
Jenny Gustavsson Sweden	9	663 0.9×	324 0.9×	144 0.5×	270 1.1×	241 1.0×	13	1.4k
Li Xue China	17	798 1.1×	403 1.2×	211 0.8×	290 1.2×	432 1.8×	53	1.9k
Ingrid Strid Sweden	19	870 1.2×	443 1.3×	104 0.4×	474 1.9×	302 1.3×	44	1.6k
Karin Östergren Sweden	24	1.1k 1.5×	523 1.5×	501 1.8×	249 1.0×	334 1.4×	60	2.1k
Lorie Hamelin France	25	417 0.6×	487 1.4×	526 1.9×	392 1.6×	137 0.6×	64	2.4k
Zaini Ujang Malaysia	29	1.2k 1.6×	1.1k 3.1×	403 1.5×	287 1.1×	300 1.3×	94	3.3k
Poritosh Roy Canada	27	479 0.7×	266 0.8×	687 2.5×	673 2.7×	370 1.6×	63	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carla Caldeira

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20 of 20 papers shown

Biganzoli, Fabrizio, Carla Caldeira, Joana Alves Dias, et al.. (2025). Towards Healthy and Sustainable Diets: Understanding Food Consumption Trends in the EU. Foods. 14(16). 2798–2798.

Ragas, Ad M.J., Carla Caldeira, Leo Posthuma, et al.. (2025). Operationalization of the safe and sustainable by design framework for chemicals and materials: challenges and proposed actions. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 21(2). 245–262. 8 indexed citations

Caldeira, Carla, et al.. (2024). Understanding textile value chains: Dynamic Probabilistic Material Flow Analysis of textile in the European Union. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 212. 107888–107888. 4 indexed citations

Caldeira, Carla, et al.. (2024). Safe and sustainable chemicals and materials: a review of sustainability assessment frameworks. Green Chemistry. 26(13). 7456–7477. 9 indexed citations

Laurentiis, Valeria De, Carla Caldeira, Serenella Sala, & Davide Tonini. (2024). Life cycle thinking for the assessment of waste and circular economy policy: status and perspectives from the EU example. Waste Management. 179. 205–215. 11 indexed citations

Caldeira, Carla, et al.. (2024). Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Alternative Ways to Produce Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 12(13). 5092–5104. 15 indexed citations

Kuipers, Koen, Carla Caldeira, Steef V. Hanssen, et al.. (2023). The potential of emerging bio-based products to reduce environmental impacts. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8521–8521. 89 indexed citations breakdown →

Vittuari, Matteo, Matteo Masotti, Carla Caldeira, et al.. (2023). How to reduce consumer food waste at household level: A literature review on drivers and levers for behavioural change. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 38. 104–114. 61 indexed citations

Dias, Luís C., Carla Caldeira, & Serenella Sala. (2023). Multiple criteria decision analysis to support the design of safe and sustainable chemicals and materials. The Science of The Total Environment. 916. 169599–169599. 19 indexed citations

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Caldeira, Carla, Valeria De Laurentiis, Agneta Ghose, Sara Corrado, & Serenella Sala. (2021). Grown and thrown: Exploring approaches to estimate food waste in EU countries. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 168. 105426–105426. 48 indexed citations

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Laurentiis, Valeria De, Carla Caldeira, & Serenella Sala. (2020). No time to waste: assessing the performance of food waste prevention actions. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 161. 104946–104946. 70 indexed citations

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Caldeira, Carla, Anestis Vlysidis, Gianluca Fiore, et al.. (2020). Sustainability of food waste biorefinery: A review on valorisation pathways, techno-economic constraints, and environmental assessment. Bioresource Technology. 312. 123575–123575. 178 indexed citations

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Corrado, Sara, et al.. (2020). Unveiling the potential for an efficient use of nitrogen along the food supply and consumption chain. Global Food Security. 25. 100368–100368. 11 indexed citations

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Caldeira, Carla, et al.. (2019). Suggestions to improve data coverage and comparability in food waste accounting studies across the EU. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 3 indexed citations

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Caldeira, Carla, et al.. (2019). Assessment of food waste prevention actions. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 12 indexed citations

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Corrado, Sara, Carla Caldeira, Mattias Eriksson, et al.. (2019). Food waste accounting methodologies: Challenges, opportunities, and further advancements. Global Food Security. 20. 93–100. 159 indexed citations

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Caldeira, Carla, et al.. (2019). Quantification of food waste per product group along the food supply chain in the European Union: a mass flow analysis. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 149. 479–488. 333 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cristóbal, Jorge, Carla Caldeira, Sara Corrado, & Serenella Sala. (2018). Techno-economic and profitability analysis of food waste biorefineries at European level. Bioresource Technology. 259. 244–252. 153 indexed citations

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Soares, Nelson, António Gomes Martins, Carla Caldeira, et al.. (2018). The challenging paradigm of interrelated energy systems towards a more sustainable future. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 95. 171–193. 51 indexed citations

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Caldeira, Carla, Paula Quinteiro, Érica Geraldes Castanheira, et al.. (2018). Water footprint profile of crop-based vegetable oils and waste cooking oil: Comparing two water scarcity footprint methods. Journal of Cleaner Production. 195. 1190–1202. 25 indexed citations

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