Merja Saarinen

1.2k total citations
58 papers, 845 citations indexed

About

Merja Saarinen is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Engineering and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Merja Saarinen has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 845 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Environmental Engineering and 14 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Merja Saarinen's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (30 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (18 papers) and Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (14 papers). Merja Saarinen is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (30 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (18 papers) and Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (14 papers). Merja Saarinen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Norway and Denmark. Merja Saarinen's co-authors include Kirsi Usva, Sirpa Kurppa, Yrjö Virtanen, Ari Nissinen, Johanna Mäkelä, Juha‐Matti Katajajuuri, Ilmo Mäenpää, Mikael Fogelholm, Raija Tahvonen and Juha Grönroos and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioresource Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Merja Saarinen

42 papers receiving 795 citations

Peers

Merja Saarinen

ECOLO

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Sirpa Kurppa Finland

Durk Nijdam Netherlands

Bojana Bajželj United Kingdom

Laura Batlle-Bayer Spain

Pernilla Tidåker Sweden

Pedro Villanueva-Rey Spain

Anna Flysjö Denmark

Friederike Ziegler Sweden

Franziska Stoessel Switzerland

Berit Mattsson Sweden

Sirpa Kurppa Finland

Merja Saarinen

412 ×0.8

ECOLO

247 ×0.8

210 ×0.8

78 ×0.6

PHEOH

161 ×1.7

Citations per year, relative to Merja Saarinen Merja Saarinen (= 1×) peers Sirpa Kurppa

Countries citing papers authored by Merja Saarinen

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Merja Saarinen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Merja Saarinen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Merja Saarinen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Merja Saarinen 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 Merja Saarinen. Merja Saarinen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kårlund, Anna, et al.. (2025). Integrating nutrition into environmental impact assessments reveals limited sustainable food options within planetary boundaries. Sustainable Production and Consumption. 56. 142–155.

Pardo, Guillermo Orozco, et al.. (2025). Adapting the product group-specific nutritional functional units to the Spanish context. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(4). 682–693.

Silvennoinen, Kirsi, Joel Kostensalo, Susanna Raulio, et al.. (2025). The impact of adhering to a more plant-based menu on food waste at Finnish early childhood education and care centres. British Food Journal. 127(6). 2091–2106.

Tampio, Elina, et al.. (2025). Valorising digestate as bio-based fertiliser next to biogas: Environmental life cycle costing of three farm-scale anaerobic co-digestion scenarios. Bioresource Technology. 440. 133401–133401.

Saarinen, Merja, Joel Kostensalo, Jouni Nousiainen, et al.. (2025). Dietary climate impact correlates ambiguously with health biomarkers– a randomised controlled trial in healthy Finnish adults. European Journal of Nutrition. 64(2). 95–95. 2 indexed citations

Gómez-Gallego, Carlos, Marjukka Kolehmainen, Anne‐Maria Pajari, et al.. (2025). Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality: insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(5). 928–938. 1 indexed citations

Harwatt, Helen, Tim G. Benton, Jan Bengtsson, et al.. (2024). Environmental sustainability of food production and consumption in the Nordic and Baltic region – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023. Food & Nutrition Research. 68. 12 indexed citations

Kårlund, Anna, et al.. (2024). Advancing methods for comparative nutritional LCA of milk and plant-based milk substitutes. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(3). 462–476. 3 indexed citations

Saarinen, Merja, et al.. (2024). Climate impact dataset of 1233 ingredients to promote sustainability of food service operators in Finland. Data in Brief. 57. 111143–111143. 1 indexed citations

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Kårlund, Anna, et al.. (2024). Validating nutrient selection for product-group-specific nutrient indices for use as functional units in life cycle assessment of foods. British Journal Of Nutrition. 131(12). 2049–2057. 3 indexed citations

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Meltzer, Helle Margrete, Hanna Eneroth, Maijaliisa Erkkola, et al.. (2024). Challenges and opportunities when moving food production and consumption toward sustainable diets in the Nordics: a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023. Food & Nutrition Research. 68. 9 indexed citations

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Kårlund, Anna, et al.. (2023). Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 30(1). 93–109. 7 indexed citations

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Kostensalo, Joel, Riitta Lemola, Tapio Salo, et al.. (2023). A site-specific prediction model for nitrogen leaching in conventional and organic farming. Journal of Environmental Management. 349. 119388–119388. 6 indexed citations

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Kårlund, Anna, et al.. (2023). Product-group-specific nutrient index as a nutritional functional unit for the Life Cycle Assessment of protein-rich foods. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28(12). 1672–1688. 12 indexed citations

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Hyvönen, Terho, et al.. (2023). Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. 28(9). 1104–1116. 12 indexed citations

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Saarinen, Merja, Jaakko Heikkinen, Elise Ketoja, et al.. (2023). Soil carbon plays a role in the climate impact of diet and its mitigation: the Finnish case. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 13 indexed citations

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Linnanen, Lassi, Heikki Liimatainen, Ari Nissinen, et al.. (2020). The sufficiency perspective in climate policy: How to recompose consumption. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)). 3 indexed citations

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Saarinen, Merja, et al.. (2014). Lähiruuan ekologisten vaikutusten selvitys. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)). 2 indexed citations

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Koskela, Sirkka, et al.. (2013). Modeling the environmental impacts of Finnish imports using the EE-IO method and various data sources. Jukuri (Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)).

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Virtanen, Yrjö, Sirpa Kurppa, Merja Saarinen, et al.. (2010). Carbon footprint of food - An approach from national level and from a food portion. Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture). 1443–1449. 6 indexed citations

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