Sangwon Suh

29.7k total citations · 14 hit papers
182 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Sangwon Suh is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sangwon Suh has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Environmental Engineering, 39 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 32 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sangwon Suh's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (108 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (28 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (26 papers). Sangwon Suh is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (108 papers), Climate Change Policy and Economics (28 papers) and Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (26 papers). Sangwon Suh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Japan. Sangwon Suh's co-authors include Reinout Heijungs, Jiajia Zheng, Gjalt Huppes, Arturo A. Keller, Tomas Ekvall, David Pennington, Jeroen B. Guinée, Manfred Lenzen, Yang Qiu and Stefanie Hellweg and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sangwon Suh

172 papers receiving 20.4k 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.

  1. Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment
    2009 2.3k citations Jeroen B. Guinée, Reinout Heijungs et al. profile →
  2. Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment
    2020 2.2k citations Sangwon Suh et al. profile →
  3. Life cycle assessment
    2004 1.9k citations Sangwon Suh, Bo P. Weidema et al. profile →
  4. The material footprint of nations
    2013 1.1k citations Thomas Wiedmann, Heinz Schandl et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Global life cycle releases of engineered nanomaterials
    2013 1.0k citations Arturo A. Keller, Sangwon Suh et al. profile →
  6. Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics
    2019 855 citations Sangwon Suh et al. profile →
  7. System Boundary Selection in Life-Cycle Inventories Using Hybrid Approaches
    2003 816 citations Sangwon Suh, Manfred Lenzen et al. profile →
  8. Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies
    2014 567 citations Edgar G. Hertwich, Thomas Gibon et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Methods for Life Cycle Inventory of a product
    2004 539 citations Sangwon Suh, Gjalt Huppes profile →
  10. The Computational Structure of Life Cycle Assessment
    2002 501 citations Reinout Heijungs, Sangwon Suh profile →
  11. Climate change mitigation potential of carbon capture and utilization in the chemical industry
    2019 476 citations Sangwon Suh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emission plastics by a circular carbon economy
    2021 392 citations Sangwon Suh et al. profile →
  13. Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries
    2023 226 citations Sangwon Suh et al. profile →
  14. Future environmental impacts of global hydrogen production
    2024 110 citations Shijie Wei, Romain Sacchi et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Sangwon Suh 9.9k 4.7k 4.1k 2.9k 2.8k 182 21.4k
Mark A. J. Huijbregts 9.1k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 3.4k 0.8× 1.9k 0.7× 2.2k 0.8× 391 25.2k
Michael Zwicky Hauschild 9.9k 1.0× 5.7k 1.2× 2.6k 0.6× 4.4k 1.5× 1.6k 0.6× 356 24.4k
Stefanie Hellweg 8.0k 0.8× 4.1k 0.9× 2.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 238 18.8k
Adisa Azapagic 4.7k 0.5× 2.5k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 2.7k 0.9× 883 0.3× 257 17.8k
Reinout Heijungs 10.4k 1.0× 3.3k 0.7× 1.4k 0.3× 2.5k 0.9× 2.1k 0.8× 253 17.8k
Ernst Worrell 5.5k 0.6× 1.8k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 2.2k 0.8× 2.4k 0.9× 296 16.1k
Jiří Jaromír Klemeš 3.6k 0.4× 2.8k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 2.8k 1.0× 1.8k 0.7× 824 29.1k
Jeroen B. Guinée 8.2k 0.8× 3.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.3× 2.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.4× 135 15.5k
Olivier Jolliet 6.5k 0.7× 3.0k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 1.2k 0.4× 268 16.8k
Bo P. Weidema 7.9k 0.8× 3.0k 0.7× 1.3k 0.3× 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.4× 96 14.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sangwon Suh

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Oh, Chulhong, et al.. (2025). Sustainable valorization of fish head wastes into nitrogen-based nutrients: a comparative life cycle assessment. Journal of Biological Engineering. 19(1). 87–87.
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Wei, Shijie, Romain Sacchi, Arnold Tukker, Sangwon Suh, & Bernhard Steubing. (2024). Future environmental impacts of global hydrogen production. Energy & Environmental Science. 17(6). 2157–2172. 110 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mach, Katharine J., et al.. (2022). Functionality‐based life cycle assessment framework: An information and communication technologies (ICT) product case study. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 26(3). 782–800. 1 indexed citations
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Geyer, Roland, et al.. (2020). A review of methods for characterizing the environmental consequences of actions in life cycle assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 24(4). 815–829. 30 indexed citations
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Sonnemann, Guido, et al.. (2020). Do we have enough natural sand for low‐carbon infrastructure?. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 24(5). 1004–1015. 39 indexed citations
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Suh, Sangwon, Edgar G. Hertwich, Stefanie Hellweg, & Alissa Kendall. (2016). Life Cycle Environmental and Natural Resource Implications of Energy Efficiency Technologies. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 20(2). 218–222. 6 indexed citations
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Bergesen, Joseph D., Leena Tähkämö, Thomas Gibon, & Sangwon Suh. (2015). Potential Long‐Term Global Environmental Implications of Efficient Light‐Source Technologies. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 20(2). 263–275. 36 indexed citations
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Gavankar, Sheetal, Sangwon Suh, & Arturo A. Keller. (2014). The Role of Scale and Technology Maturity in Life Cycle Assessment of Emerging Technologies: A Case Study on Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(1). 51–60. 147 indexed citations
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Wiedmann, Thomas, Heinz Schandl, Manfred Lenzen, et al.. (2013). The material footprint of nations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(20). 6271–6276. 1095 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hashimoto, Seiji, Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, Sangwon Suh, & Xuemei Bai. (2012). Greening Growing Giants. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 16(4). 459–466. 17 indexed citations
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Lin, Chen, Sangwon Suh, & Stephan Pfister. (2012). Does South‐to‐North Water Transfer Reduce the Environmental Impact of Water Consumption in China?. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 16(4). 647–654. 35 indexed citations
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Kim, Junbeum, et al.. (2012). The Importance of Normalization References in Interpreting Life Cycle Assessment Results. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 17(3). 385–395. 49 indexed citations
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Suh, Sangwon, Bo P. Weidema, Jannick Schmidt, & Reinout Heijungs. (2010). Generalized Make and Use Framework for Allocation in Life Cycle Assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 14(2). 335–353. 106 indexed citations
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Suh, Sangwon. (2009). Waste Input‐Output Analysis: Concepts and Application to Industrial Ecology by Shinichiro Nakamura and Yasushi Kondo. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 13(5). 835–836. 2 indexed citations
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Koellner, Thomas, Sangwon Suh, Olaf Weber, Corinne Moser, & Roland W. Scholz. (2007). Environmental Impacts of Conventional and Sustainable Investment Funds Compared Using Input‐Output Life‐Cycle Assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 11(3). 41–60. 48 indexed citations
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Weidema, Bo P., et al.. (2006). Setting Priorities within Product‐Oriented Environmental Policy. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 10(3). 73–87. 24 indexed citations
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Tukker, Arnold, Eder Peter, & Sangwon Suh. (2006). Environmental Impacts of Products:Policy Relevant Information and Data Challenges. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 10(3). 183–198. 49 indexed citations
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Huppes, Gjalt, Arjan de Koning, Sangwon Suh, et al.. (2006). Environmental Impacts of Consumption in the European Union:High‐Resolution Input‐Output Tables with Detailed Environmental Extensions. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 10(3). 129–146. 124 indexed citations
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Heijungs, Reinout, Arjan de Koning, Sangwon Suh, & Gjalt Huppes. (2006). Toward an Information Tool for Integrated Product Policy: Requirements for Data and Computation. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 10(3). 147–158. 52 indexed citations
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Haes, Helias A. Udo de, Reinout Heijungs, Sangwon Suh, & Gjalt Huppes. (2004). Three Strategies to Overcome the Limitations of Life‐Cycle Assessment. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 8(3). 19–32. 140 indexed citations

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