Luca Ciacci

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Luca Ciacci is a scholar working on Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Ciacci has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 30 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 17 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Luca Ciacci's work include Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (35 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (28 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (17 papers). Luca Ciacci is often cited by papers focused on Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (35 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (28 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (17 papers). Luca Ciacci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and China. Luca Ciacci's co-authors include T. E. Graedel, Barbara K. Reck, Fabrizio Passarini, Ivano Vassura, Ayman Elshkaki, Luciano Morselli, Nedal T. Nassar, Tomer Fishman, Wei‐Qiang Chen and Alessandro Santini and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, The Science of The Total Environment and Journal of Cleaner Production.

In The Last Decade

Luca Ciacci

55 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Copper demand, supply, and associated energy use to 2050

2016 371 citations T. E. Graedel, Luca Ciacci et al. profile →
Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review

2019 318 citations Edgar G. Hertwich, Saleem H. Ali et al. Environmental Research Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Ciacci Italy	27	1.2k	1.0k	718	364	343	56	2.5k
Philip Nuss United States	23	1.3k 1.1×	878 0.8×	641 0.9×	349 1.0×	310 0.9×	36	2.5k
Kazuyo Matsubae Japan	31	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	637 0.9×	313 0.9×	194 0.6×	117	2.7k
Liselotte Schebek Germany	28	947 0.8×	612 0.6×	664 0.9×	582 1.6×	421 1.2×	118	2.9k
Ayman Elshkaki China	26	1.1k 0.9×	606 0.6×	765 1.1×	250 0.7×	237 0.7×	47	2.2k
Benjamin Sprecher Netherlands	26	1.2k 1.0×	864 0.8×	533 0.7×	193 0.5×	560 1.6×	54	2.8k
Kenichi Nakajima Japan	36	2.1k 1.8×	1.8k 1.7×	1.3k 1.8×	481 1.3×	366 1.1×	160	4.2k
Shinsuke Murakami Japan	23	875 0.7×	943 0.9×	549 0.8×	132 0.4×	258 0.8×	103	2.2k
Tieyong Zuo China	27	1.3k 1.1×	1.2k 1.2×	449 0.6×	251 0.7×	250 0.7×	71	2.6k
Lauran van Oers Netherlands	25	658 0.6×	705 0.7×	1.5k 2.1×	220 0.6×	426 1.2×	46	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Ciacci

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Ciacci

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Ciacci

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luca Ciacci. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luca Ciacci based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Luca Ciacci. Luca Ciacci is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Cespi, Daniele, et al.. (2025). LCA of precious metals recovery: Modelling the secondary supply of gold, silver, platinum, palladium and rhodium from an integrated refining plant. Cleaner Environmental Systems. 19. 100310–100310.

Bernardi, Elena, et al.. (2025). The role of particulate matter in bronze corrosion: A novel method for assessment and prediction. The Science of The Total Environment. 968. 178845–178845. 1 indexed citations

Cespi, Daniele, et al.. (2024). The Environmental Stake of Bitcoin Mining: Present and Future Challenges. Applied Sciences. 14(20). 9597–9597. 1 indexed citations

Ciacci, Luca, et al.. (2024). Exploring mass and economic potentials of rare earth elements recycling from electric vehicles at end-of-life. Mineral Economics. 37(3). 573–587. 9 indexed citations

Cespi, Daniele, et al.. (2024). Improving the waste management system in an Italian footwear district applying MFA and LCA. The Science of The Total Environment. 955. 177289–177289. 1 indexed citations

Passarini, Fabrizio, et al.. (2024). Advantages and drawbacks of life cycle assessment application to the pharmaceuticals: a short critical literature review. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 5 indexed citations

Ciacci, Luca, et al.. (2023). The “SQUIID claim”: A novel LCA-based indicator for food dishes. Journal of Cleaner Production. 434. 140241–140241. 5 indexed citations

Cespi, Daniele, et al.. (2023). Application of life cycle assessment to high quality-soil conditioner production from biowaste. Waste Management. 172. 216–225. 12 indexed citations

Cespi, Daniele, Luca Ciacci, Rosaria Ciriminna, et al.. (2023). Prospective life cycle assessment for the full valorization of anchovy fillet leftovers: The LimoFish process. Waste Management. 168. 156–166. 11 indexed citations

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Ciacci, Luca, et al.. (2023). Mining the in-use stock of energy-transition materials for closed-loop e-mobility. Resources Policy. 86. 104155–104155. 3 indexed citations

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Ciacci, Luca, Cristina T. Matos, Barbara K. Reck, et al.. (2022). Material system analysis: Characterization of flows, stocks, and performance indicators of manganese, nickel, and natural graphite in the EU, 2012–2016. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(4). 1247–1260. 11 indexed citations

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Matos, Cristina T., Fabrice Mathieux, Luca Ciacci, et al.. (2022). Material system analysis: A novel multilayer system approach to correlate EU flows and stocks of Li‐ion batteries and their raw materials. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(4). 1261–1276. 26 indexed citations

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Ciacci, Luca, et al.. (2022). Carbon Fibers Waste Recovery via Pyro-Gasification: Semi-Industrial Pilot Plant Testing and LCA. Sustainability. 14(7). 3744–3744. 10 indexed citations

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Rigamonti, Lucia, Luca Ciacci, Anna Degli Esposti, et al.. (2020). APPLICAZIONI DELLA METODOLOGIA LCA NEL CAMPO DELLA GESTIONE E DEL TRATTAMENTO DEI RIFIUTI. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 7(3). 207–223. 2 indexed citations

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Ciacci, Luca & Fabrizio Passarini. (2020). Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Environmental and Energy Systems. Energies. 13(22). 5892–5892. 36 indexed citations

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Hertwich, Edgar G., Saleem H. Ali, Luca Ciacci, et al.. (2019). Material efficiency strategies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions associated with buildings, vehicles, and electronics—a review. Environmental Research Letters. 14(4). 43004–43004. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ciacci, Luca, Tim T. Werner, Ivano Vassura, & Fabrizio Passarini. (2018). Backlighting the European Indium Recycling Potentials. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(2). 426–437. 48 indexed citations

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Passarini, Fabrizio, et al.. (2018). Material flow analysis of aluminium, copper, and iron in the EU-28. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–104. 22 indexed citations

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Parker, Helen L., Andrea Muñoz García, Con Robert McElroy, et al.. (2017). Toward Financially Viable Phytoextraction and Production of Plant-Based Palladium Catalysts. Environmental Science & Technology. 51(5). 2992–3000. 39 indexed citations

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Passarini, Fabrizio, Luca Ciacci, Alessandro Santini, Ivano Vassura, & Luciano Morselli. (2011). Auto shredder residue LCA: implications of ASR composition evolution. Journal of Cleaner Production. 23(1). 28–36. 66 indexed citations

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