Niko Heeren

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Niko Heeren is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Building and Construction and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Niko Heeren has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Environmental Engineering, 23 papers in Building and Construction and 9 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Niko Heeren's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (16 papers) and Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (12 papers). Niko Heeren is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (31 papers), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization (16 papers) and Sustainable Building Design and Assessment (12 papers). Niko Heeren collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Norway. Niko Heeren's co-authors include Stefanie Hellweg, Stefan Pauliuk, Tomer Fishman, Edgar G. Hertwich, Paul Wolfram, Qingshi Tu, Peter Berrill, Holger Wallbaum, Eric Masanet and Saleem H. Ali and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Niko Heeren

48 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

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 →
Global scenarios of resource and emission savings from material efficiency in residential buildings and cars

2021 213 citations Stefan Pauliuk, Niko Heeren et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Niko Heeren Switzerland	26	1.3k	1.1k	333	305	280	48	2.3k
Ben Amor Canada	30	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	578 1.7×	196 0.6×	395 1.4×	74	2.9k
Alessio Miatto United States	23	943 0.7×	726 0.7×	332 1.0×	190 0.6×	510 1.8×	45	2.2k
Karen Allacker Belgium	27	1.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	367 1.1×	166 0.5×	289 1.0×	132	2.4k
Pascal Lesage Canada	21	1.3k 1.0×	555 0.5×	263 0.8×	200 0.7×	353 1.3×	29	2.1k
Paolo Masoni Italy	20	1.2k 0.9×	443 0.4×	449 1.3×	191 0.6×	558 2.0×	51	2.4k
Mark Goedkoop Netherlands	16	1.5k 1.2×	450 0.4×	321 1.0×	279 0.9×	560 2.0×	23	2.8k
Amaryllis Audenaert Belgium	27	909 0.7×	1.6k 1.4×	287 0.9×	260 0.9×	141 0.5×	102	2.7k
Gabor Doka Switzerland	13	1.0k 0.8×	429 0.4×	216 0.6×	208 0.7×	498 1.8×	15	2.1k
André Stephan Australia	27	1.6k 1.2×	1.8k 1.6×	216 0.6×	172 0.6×	200 0.7×	87	2.8k
Seiji Hashimoto Japan	30	1.3k 1.0×	633 0.6×	355 1.1×	233 0.8×	920 3.3×	116	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Niko Heeren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Niko Heeren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Niko Heeren

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Heeren, Niko, et al.. (2025). Integrated computational assessment of concrete properties, durability, and environmental impacts. Materials and Structures. 58(1). 2 indexed citations

Pauliuk, Stefan, et al.. (2024). Scenario analysis of supply‐ and demand‐side solutions for circular economy and climate change mitigation in the global building sector. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 28(6). 1699–1715. 12 indexed citations

Milojevic-Dupont, Nikola, Felix Wagner, Jia Hu, et al.. (2023). EUBUCCO v0.1: European building stock characteristics in a common and open database for 200+ million individual buildings. Scientific Data. 10(1). 147–147. 66 indexed citations

Majeau‐Bettez, Guillaume, Jean‐Marc Frayret, Anu Ramaswami, Yang Li, & Niko Heeren. (2022). Data innovation in industrial ecology. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(1). 6–11. 2 indexed citations

Masanet, Eric, Niko Heeren, Shigemi Kagawa, et al.. (2021). Material efficiency for climate change mitigation. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25(2). 254–259. 11 indexed citations

Fishman, Tomer, Niko Heeren, Stefan Pauliuk, et al.. (2021). A comprehensive set of global scenarios of housing, mobility, and material efficiency for material cycles and energy systems modeling. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25(2). 305–320. 57 indexed citations

Pauliuk, Stefan, Niko Heeren, Peter Berrill, et al.. (2021). Global scenarios of resource and emission savings from material efficiency in residential buildings and cars. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5097–5097. 213 indexed citations breakdown →

Golzar, Farzin, Niko Heeren, Stefanie Hellweg, & Ramin Roshandel. (2020). Optimisation of energy-efficient greenhouses based on an integrated energy demand-yield production model. Biosystems Engineering. 202. 1–15. 14 indexed citations

Wolfram, Paul, Qingshi Tu, Niko Heeren, Stefan Pauliuk, & Edgar G. Hertwich. (2020). Material efficiency and climate change mitigation of passenger vehicles. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25(2). 494–510. 50 indexed citations

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Pauliuk, Stefan, Tomer Fishman, Niko Heeren, et al.. (2020). Linking service provision to material cycles: A new framework for studying the resource efficiency–climate change (RECC) nexus. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25(2). 260–273. 48 indexed citations

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Pauliuk, Stefan & Niko Heeren. (2020). Material efficiency and its contribution to climate change mitigation in Germany: A deep decarbonization scenario analysis until 2060. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 25(2). 479–493. 43 indexed citations

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Pauliuk, Stefan, et al.. (2019). A general data model for socioeconomic metabolism and its implementation in an industrial ecology data commons prototype. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(5). 1016–1027. 26 indexed citations

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Heeren, Niko, et al.. (2019). The future in and of criticality assessments. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(4). 751–766. 24 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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Heeren, Niko & Tomer Fishman. (2019). A database seed for a community-driven material intensity research platform. Scientific Data. 6(1). 23–23. 100 indexed citations

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Heeren, Niko & Stefanie Hellweg. (2018). Tracking Construction Material over Space and Time: Prospective and Geo‐referenced Modeling of Building Stocks and Construction Material Flows. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(1). 253–267. 160 indexed citations

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Hertwich, Edgar G., Niko Heeren, Brandon Kuczenski, et al.. (2018). Nullius in Verba1: Advancing Data Transparency in Industrial Ecology. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(1). 6–17. 46 indexed citations

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Froemelt, Andreas, René Buffat, Niko Heeren, & Stefanie Hellweg. (2018). Assessing environmental impacts of individual households: A large-scale bottom-up LCA-model for Switzerland. 32–33. 1 indexed citations

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Ostermeyer, York, Claudio Nägeli, Niko Heeren, & Holger Wallbaum. (2017). Building Inventory and Refurbishment Scenario Database Development for Switzerland. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(4). 629–642. 24 indexed citations

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Heeren, Niko, et al.. (2012). Energiekonzept 2050 für die Stadt Zürich - Auf dem Weg zur 2000 Watt tauglichen Wärme-Versorgung mit einem räumlich differenzierten Gebäudeparkmodell. Chalmers Publication Library (Chalmers University of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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