Maddalena Ripa

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Maddalena Ripa is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Maddalena Ripa has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Environmental Engineering, 13 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 8 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Maddalena Ripa's work include Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (13 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (12 papers) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (11 papers). Maddalena Ripa is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (13 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (12 papers) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (11 papers). Maddalena Ripa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and China. Maddalena Ripa's co-authors include Sérgio Ulgiati, Patrizia Ghisellini, Gabriella Fiorentino, Remo Santagata, Fabiana Corcelli, Andrea Genovese, Mario Giampietro, Salvatore Mellino, Amalia Zucaro and Silvio Viglia and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production and Applied Energy.

In The Last Decade

Maddalena Ripa

41 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Exploring environmental and economic costs and benefits of a circular economy approach to the construction and demolition sector. A literature review

2017 470 citations Patrizia Ghisellini, Maddalena Ripa et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

Peers

Maddalena Ripa

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Paolo Masoni Italy

Massimo Pizzol Denmark

Diogo Aparecido Lopes Silva Brazil

Anthony Halog Australia

Cássia Maria Lie Ugaya Brazil

Carles M. Gasol Spain

María Margallo Spain

Blanca Corona Netherlands

Carlo Ingrao Italy

Joanna Kulczycka Poland

Paolo Masoni Italy

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Countries citing papers authored by Maddalena Ripa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maddalena Ripa

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maddalena Ripa

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2023). Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Tofu Production from Organic and Conventional Soybean Cropping: Improvement Potential from Renewable Energy Use and Circular Economy Patterns. Environments. 10(5). 73–73. 5 indexed citations

Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2021). Bio-products from algae-based biorefinery on wastewater: A review. Journal of Environmental Management. 293. 112792–112792. 52 indexed citations

Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2021). Identification of inference fallacies in solid waste generation estimations of developing countries. A case-study in Panama. Waste Management. 126. 454–465. 5 indexed citations

Colella, Marina Pereira, et al.. (2021). Challenges and opportunities for more efficient water use and circular wastewater management. The case of Campania Region, Italy. Journal of Environmental Management. 297. 113171–113171. 33 indexed citations

Bukkens, Sandra G.F., et al.. (2020). Why does the European Union produce biofuels? Examining consistency and plausibility in prevailing narratives with quantitative storytelling. Energy Research & Social Science. 71. 101810–101810. 36 indexed citations

Matthews, Keith, Kirsty Blackstock, Kerry A. Waylen, et al.. (2019). Delivering more than the "Sum of the Parts": using Quantitative Storytelling to address the challenges of conducting science for policy in the EU land, water and energy nexus. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations

Santagata, Remo, Amalia Zucaro, Silvio Viglia, et al.. (2019). Assessing the sustainability of urban eco-systems through Emergy-based circular economy indicators. Ecological Indicators. 109. 105859–105859. 61 indexed citations

Giampietro, Mario, et al.. (2019). Landfill reactions to society actions: The case of local and global air pollutants of Cerro Patacón in Panama. The Science of The Total Environment. 706. 135988–135988. 12 indexed citations

Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2019). Robust information for effective municipal solid waste policies: Identifying behaviour of waste generation across spatial levels of organization. Waste Management. 103. 208–217. 17 indexed citations

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Corcelli, Fabiana, Maddalena Ripa, & Sérgio Ulgiati. (2018). Efficiency and sustainability indicators for papermaking from virgin pulp—An emergy-based case study. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 131. 313–328. 39 indexed citations

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Giampietro, Mario, et al.. (2018). Characterizing the metabolic pattern of urban systems using MuSIASEM: The case of Barcelona. Energy Policy. 124. 13–22. 30 indexed citations

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Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2018). Deep Decarbonisation from a Biophysical Perspective: GHG Emissions of a Renewable Electricity Transformation in the EU. Sustainability. 10(10). 3685–3685. 8 indexed citations

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Ghisellini, Patrizia, Maddalena Ripa, & Sérgio Ulgiati. (2017). Exploring environmental and economic costs and benefits of a circular economy approach to the construction and demolition sector. A literature review. Journal of Cleaner Production. 178. 618–643. 470 indexed citations breakdown →

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Piano, Samuele Lo, et al.. (2017). Development of a municipal solid waste management decision support tool for Naples, Italy. Journal of Cleaner Production. 161. 1032–1043. 18 indexed citations

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Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2016). Refuse recovered biomass fuel from municipal solid waste. A life cycle assessment. Applied Energy. 186. 211–225. 49 indexed citations

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Corcelli, Fabiana, Maddalena Ripa, Enrica Leccisi, et al.. (2016). Sustainable urban electricity supply chain – Indicators of material recovery and energy savings from crystalline silicon photovoltaic panels end-of-life. Ecological Indicators. 94. 37–51. 115 indexed citations

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Fiorentino, Gabriella, et al.. (2015). Life Cycle Assessment of Mixed Municipal Solid Waste: Multi-input versus multi-output perspective. Waste Management. 46. 599–611. 49 indexed citations

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Bala, Alba, Marco Raugei, Maddalena Ripa, & Sérgio Ulgiati. (2015). Dealing with waste products and flows in life cycle assessment and emergy accounting: Methodological overview and synergies. Ecological Modelling. 315. 69–76. 33 indexed citations

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Ripa, Maddalena, et al.. (2014). Recycling waste cooking oil into biodiesel: A life cycle assessment. International Journal of Performability Engineering. 10(4). 347. 28 indexed citations

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Mellino, Salvatore, Maddalena Ripa, Amalia Zucaro, & Sérgio Ulgiati. (2013). An emergy–GIS approach to the evaluation of renewable resource flows: A case study of Campania Region, Italy. Ecological Modelling. 271. 103–112. 50 indexed citations

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