Christopher Mutel

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Mutel is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Mutel has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Environmental Engineering, 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 11 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Christopher Mutel's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (33 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (6 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 papers). Christopher Mutel is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (33 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (6 papers) and Sustainable Supply Chain Management (6 papers). Christopher Mutel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United States. Christopher Mutel's co-authors include Stefanie Hellweg, Christian Bauer, B. Cox, Bernhard Steubing, Angelica Mendoza Beltrán, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Kathrin Volkart, Stephan Pfister, Romain Sacchi and Xiaojin Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Mutel

53 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Brightway: An open source framework for Life Cycle Assess... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2022 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Brightway: An open source framework for Life Cycle Assessment
    2017 343 citations Christopher Mutel profile →
  2. PRospective EnvironMental Impact asSEment (premise): A streamlined approach to producing databases for prospective life cycle assessment using integrated assessment models
    2022 282 citations Romain Sacchi, Tom Terlouw et al. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher Mutel Switzerland 32 1.9k 854 557 548 469 53 3.5k
Marco Raugei United Kingdom 35 2.0k 1.1× 954 1.1× 871 1.6× 593 1.1× 574 1.2× 77 3.8k
Diego Iribarren Spain 49 1.8k 1.0× 1.0k 1.2× 841 1.5× 351 0.6× 462 1.0× 125 5.9k
Jürgen Reinhard Switzerland 10 2.3k 1.2× 602 0.7× 488 0.9× 381 0.7× 934 2.0× 15 4.3k
Gregor Wernet Switzerland 14 2.4k 1.3× 671 0.8× 502 0.9× 401 0.7× 1.0k 2.1× 17 4.7k
Fausto Freire Portugal 40 1.9k 1.0× 879 1.0× 586 1.1× 696 1.3× 404 0.9× 146 5.0k
Zoran J. N. Steinmann Netherlands 21 1.6k 0.9× 452 0.5× 451 0.8× 299 0.5× 859 1.8× 30 4.3k
Shen Qu China 37 1.8k 1.0× 417 0.5× 465 0.8× 529 1.0× 529 1.1× 104 4.2k
Sonia Longo Italy 33 1.6k 0.8× 842 1.0× 685 1.2× 362 0.7× 252 0.5× 111 3.6k
Hans‐Jörg Althaus Switzerland 22 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 1.3× 430 0.8× 911 1.7× 550 1.2× 33 3.4k
Niels Jungbluth Switzerland 23 1.9k 1.0× 395 0.5× 428 0.8× 211 0.4× 566 1.2× 50 4.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Mutel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Mutel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mutel, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Global sensitivity analysis of correlated uncertainties in life cycle assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 29(4). 1090–1104. 1 indexed citations
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Steubing, Bernhard, et al.. (2023). A stepwise approach for Scenario-based Inventory Modelling for Prospective LCA (SIMPL). The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28(9). 1169–1193. 43 indexed citations
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Sacchi, Romain, Tom Terlouw, Kais Siala, et al.. (2022). PRospective EnvironMental Impact asSEment (premise): A streamlined approach to producing databases for prospective life cycle assessment using integrated assessment models. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 160. 112311–112311. 282 indexed citations breakdown →
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Paulillo, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Simplified models for predicting the environmental impacts of geothermal power generation. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 6. 100086–100086. 8 indexed citations
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Dirnaichner, Alois, Marianna Rottoli, Romain Sacchi, et al.. (2022). Life-cycle impacts from different decarbonization pathways for the European car fleet. Environmental Research Letters. 17(4). 44009–44009. 23 indexed citations
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Kuczenski, Brandon, et al.. (2021). Prototypes for automating product system model assembly. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 26(3). 483–496. 4 indexed citations
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Calicioglu, Özgül, et al.. (2021). Techno-economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment of an Integrated Wastewater-Derived Duckweed Biorefinery. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(28). 9395–9408. 40 indexed citations
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Paulillo, Andrea, et al.. (2021). Influential parameters for estimating the environmental impacts of geothermal power: A global sensitivity analysis study. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 3. 100054–100054. 13 indexed citations
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Cox, Brian, Hans‐Jörg Althaus, Christian Bauer, et al.. (2020). Umweltauswirkungen von Fahrzeugen im urbanen Kontext. Schlussbericht. DORA PSI (Paul Scherrer Institute). 2 indexed citations
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Beltrán, Angelica Mendoza, B. Cox, Christopher Mutel, et al.. (2018). When the Background Matters: Using Scenarios from Integrated Assessment Models in Prospective Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 24(1). 64–79. 208 indexed citations
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Ravikumar, Dwarakanath, Thomas P. Seager, Stefano Cucurachi, Valentina Prado, & Christopher Mutel. (2018). Novel Method of Sensitivity Analysis Improves the Prioritization of Research in Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies. Environmental Science & Technology. 52(11). 6534–6543. 31 indexed citations
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Cardellini, Giuseppe, et al.. (2018). Temporalis, a generic method and tool for dynamic Life Cycle Assessment. The Science of The Total Environment. 645. 585–595. 61 indexed citations
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Mutel, Christopher, Xun Liao, Laure Patouillard, et al.. (2018). Overview and recommendations for regionalized life cycle impact assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 24(5). 856–865. 80 indexed citations
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Cox, B. & Christopher Mutel. (2018). The environmental and cost performance of current and future motorcycles. Applied Energy. 212. 1013–1024. 50 indexed citations
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Muller, Stéphanie, Christopher Mutel, Pascal Lesage, & Réjean Samson. (2017). Effects of Distribution Choice on the Modeling of Life Cycle Inventory Uncertainty: An Assessment on the Ecoinvent v2.2 Database. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(2). 300–313. 30 indexed citations
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Lutter, Stephan, Stephan Pfister, Stefan Giljum, Hanspeter Wieland, & Christopher Mutel. (2016). Spatially explicit assessment of water embodied in European trade: A product-level multi-regional input-output analysis. Global Environmental Change. 38. 171–182. 108 indexed citations
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Pauliuk, Stefan, Guillaume Majeau‐Bettez, Christopher Mutel, Bernhard Steubing, & Konstantin Stadler. (2015). Lifting Industrial Ecology Modeling to a New Level of Quality and Transparency: A Call for More Transparent Publications and a Collaborative Open Source Software Framework. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(6). 937–949. 49 indexed citations
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Canals, Llorenç Milà i, Adisa Azapagic, Gabor Doka, et al.. (2011). Approaches for Addressing Life Cycle Assessment Data Gaps for Bio-based Products. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 15(5). 707–725. 78 indexed citations
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Wernet, Gregor, Christopher Mutel, Stefanie Hellweg, & Konrad Hungerbühler. (2010). The Environmental Importance of Energy Use in Chemical Production. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 15(1). 96–107. 37 indexed citations
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Juraske, Ronnie, Christopher Mutel, Franziska Stoessel, & Stefanie Hellweg. (2009). Life cycle human toxicity assessment of pesticides: Comparing fruit and vegetable diets in Switzerland and the United States. Chemosphere. 77(7). 939–945. 92 indexed citations

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