Markus Berger

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Markus Berger is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Berger has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Environmental Engineering, 24 papers in Water Science and Technology and 17 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Markus Berger's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (52 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (20 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (17 papers). Markus Berger is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (52 papers), Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (20 papers) and Water resources management and optimization (17 papers). Markus Berger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Canada. Markus Berger's co-authors include Matthias Finkbeiner, Vanessa Bach, Stephan Pfister, Masaharu Motoshita, Anne‐Marie Boulay, Montserrat Núñez, Bradley G. Ridoutt, Laura Schneider, Manuele Margni and Lorenzo Benini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Markus Berger

67 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

The WULCA consensus characterization model for water scarcity footprints: assessing impacts of water consumption based on available water remaining (AWARE)

2017 581 citations Anne‐Marie Boulay, Jane Bare et al. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Berger Germany	25	1.6k	820	539	456	440	69	2.7k
Cécile Bulle Canada	25	1.4k 0.9×	568 0.7×	567 1.1×	190 0.4×	371 0.8×	64	2.6k
Anne‐Marie Boulay Canada	24	1.6k 1.0×	850 1.0×	729 1.4×	136 0.3×	611 1.4×	49	3.1k
Masaharu Motoshita Japan	17	1.1k 0.7×	590 0.7×	345 0.6×	211 0.5×	366 0.8×	48	1.9k
Lorenzo Benini Italy	22	976 0.6×	371 0.5×	322 0.6×	194 0.4×	370 0.8×	33	1.9k
Sébastien Humbert Switzerland	22	2.1k 1.4×	387 0.5×	926 1.7×	309 0.7×	621 1.4×	35	4.2k
Jane Bare United States	30	2.2k 1.4×	459 0.6×	855 1.6×	363 0.8×	507 1.2×	43	4.7k
Sverker Molander Sweden	32	783 0.5×	319 0.4×	685 1.3×	208 0.5×	466 1.1×	110	3.4k
Jan Weinzettel Czechia	21	1.9k 1.2×	341 0.4×	256 0.5×	248 0.5×	508 1.2×	40	2.9k
Luís Arroja Portugal	33	1.4k 0.9×	451 0.6×	457 0.8×	120 0.3×	684 1.6×	87	3.0k
Paul Behrens Netherlands	34	1.1k 0.7×	270 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	192 0.4×	495 1.1×	92	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Berger

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20 of 20 papers shown

Berger, Markus, et al.. (2025). The updated and improved method for water scarcity impact assessment in LCA, AWARE2.0. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 29(3). 891–907. 4 indexed citations

Hogeboom, Rick J., et al.. (2025). Prioritizing water values for decision-making in transboundary river allocation: A case study of the syr darya river basin. Journal of Environmental Management. 393. 126944–126944.

Berger, Markus, P.W. Gerbens-Leenes, Fatemeh Karandish, et al.. (2025). Complementary strengths of water footprint and life cycle assessments in analyzing global freshwater appropriation and its local impacts – Recommendations from an Interdisciplinary discussion series. Ecological Indicators. 174. 113458–113458. 4 indexed citations

Hogeboom, Rick J., et al.. (2023). Water pollution from pharmaceutical use in livestock farming: Assessing differences between livestock types and production systems. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 19(6). 1495–1509. 10 indexed citations

Ye, Quanliang, Maarten S. Krol, Yuli Shan, et al.. (2023). Allocating capital-associated CO2 emissions along the full lifespan of capital investments helps diffuse emission responsibility. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2727–2727. 16 indexed citations

Berger, Markus, et al.. (2023). Domestic water versus imported virtual blue water for agricultural production: A comparison based on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 27(4). 1123–1136. 4 indexed citations

Link, Andreas, Muhammad Usman, Christopher Conrad, et al.. (2023). Groundwater-dependent ecosystems at risk – global hotspot analysis and implications. Environmental Research Letters. 18(9). 94026–94026. 18 indexed citations

Berger, Markus & Sebastian Thiede. (2023). Circularity of water - good for conscience or the environment? A deeper look into the water footprint of factories.. Procedia CIRP. 116. 125–130. 3 indexed citations

Berger, Markus, et al.. (2021). Assessing local impacts of water use on human health: evaluation of water footprint models in the Province Punjab, Pakistan. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 26(5). 1027–1044. 3 indexed citations

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Link, Andreas, Ruud van der Ent, Markus Berger, Stephanie Eisner, & Matthias Finkbeiner. (2020). The fate of land evaporation – a global dataset. Earth system science data. 12(3). 1897–1912. 32 indexed citations

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Berger, Markus, et al.. (2020). Criteria-Based Approach to Select Relevant Environmental SDG Indicators for the Automobile Industry. Sustainability. 12(21). 8811–8811. 15 indexed citations

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Cimprich, Alexander, Vanessa Bach, Christoph Helbig, et al.. (2019). Raw material criticality assessment as a complement to environmental life cycle assessment: Examining methods for product‐level supply risk assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(5). 1226–1236. 63 indexed citations

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Northey, Stephen, Ben Amor, Jane Bare, et al.. (2019). Defining freshwater as a natural resource: a framework linking water use to the area of protection natural resources. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 24(5). 960–974. 39 indexed citations

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Berger, Markus, et al.. (2018). An environmental assessment of small hydropower in India: the real costs of dams’ construction under a life cycle perspective. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 24(3). 419–440. 18 indexed citations

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Lehmann, Annekatrin, Markus Berger, & Matthias Finkbeiner. (2017). Life Cycle Based CO ₂ Emission Credits: Options for Improving the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Current Tailpipe Emissions Regulation in the Automotive Industry. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(5). 1066–1079. 7 indexed citations

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Pflugmacher, Stephan, et al.. (2017). Biodiversity impact assessment (BIA+) – methodological framework for screening biodiversity. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 14(2). 282–297. 23 indexed citations

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Benini, Lorenzo, et al.. (2014). Building consensus on a generic water scarcity indicator for LCA-based water footprint: preliminary results from WULCA. Joint Research Centre (European Commission). 142–149. 7 indexed citations

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Berger, Markus. (2014). Water footprint. DepositOnce. 1 indexed citations

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Berger, Markus & Matthias Finkbeiner. (2012). Methodological Challenges in Volumetric and Impact‐Oriented Water Footprints. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 17(1). 79–89. 101 indexed citations

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Finkbeiner, Matthias, Sabrina Neugebauer, & Markus Berger. (2012). Carbon footprint of recycled biogenic products: the challenge of modelling CO₂removal credits. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering. 6(1). 66–73. 16 indexed citations

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