Sérgio Ulgiati

25.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
272 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

Sérgio Ulgiati is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Sérgio Ulgiati has authored 272 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 182 papers in Environmental Engineering, 71 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 38 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Sérgio Ulgiati's work include Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (144 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (80 papers) and Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (64 papers). Sérgio Ulgiati is often cited by papers focused on Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis (144 papers), Environmental Impact and Sustainability (80 papers) and Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (64 papers). Sérgio Ulgiati collaborates with scholars based in Italy, China and United States. Sérgio Ulgiati's co-authors include Patrizia Ghisellini, Mark T. Brown, Catia Cialani, Francesco Cherubini, Maddalena Ripa, Silvia Bargigli, Marco Raugei, Gengyuan Liu, Gabriella Fiorentino and Yong Geng and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Sérgio Ulgiati

268 papers receiving 18.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A review on circular economy: the expected transition to a balanced interplay of environmental and economic systems

2015 4.0k citations Patrizia Ghisellini, Catia Cialani et al. Journal of Cleaner Production profile →
Emergy-based indices and ratios to evaluate sustainability: monitoring economies and technology toward environmentally sound innovation

1997 562 citations Sérgio Ulgiati et al. profile →
Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste management strategies: Landfilling, sorting plant and incineration

2008 499 citations Sérgio Ulgiati et al. Energy profile →
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 →
Measuring China's Circular Economy

2013 382 citations Sérgio Ulgiati et al. profile →
Circular economy transition in Italy. Achievements, perspectives and constraints

2019 263 citations Patrizia Ghisellini, Sérgio Ulgiati Journal of Cleaner Production profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessing the environmental sustainability and justice dimensions of nuclear electricity under circular economy and energy transition frameworks 2025 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·Patrizia Ghisellini, Renato Passaro, Sérgio Ulgiati	6
2	Integration of methods for sustainability assessment of potentially circular processes – An innovative matrix framework for businesses and policymakers 2025 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·(unknown), (unknown), Amos Ncube, Sven Kevin van Langen, Andrea Genovese, Amalia Zucaro, Gabriella Fiorentino, Nick Coleman, Patrizia Ghisellini, Renato Passaro, Remo Santagata, (unknown), Stavroula Fotopoulou, Sérgio Ulgiati	1
3	Shared responsibility for carbon emission reduction in worldwide “steel- electric vehicle” trade within a sustainable industrial chain perspective 2024 ·Ecological Economics ·Yanxin Liu, Huajiao Li, Huijun Ren, Hong-Dian Jiang, Bo Ren, Ning Ma, Zhen‐Song Chen, Weiqiong Zhong, Sérgio Ulgiati	6
4	Bio-based products for a more sustainable construction sector. Technical, environmental and social performances and impacts 2024 ·Procedia Structural Integrity ·Patrizia Ghisellini, Ivana Quinto, Renato Passaro, Sérgio Ulgiati	2
5	Designing a biodiversity credit accounting framework for environmental investment and financing 2024 ·(unknown), Gengyuan Liu, Sérgio Ulgiati, Zhifeng Yang	2
6	Rethinking the China-U.S. Trade balance from 2001–2020 based on emergy perspective 2024 ·Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments ·Jiamin Pan, (unknown), Gengyuan Liu, Yuan Gao, Fanxin Meng, (unknown), (unknown), Bojie Liu, Sérgio Ulgiati	1
7	Life cycle assessment of leather treatment at various scales: comparison between chrome and vegetable processes 2023 ·The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment ·(unknown), Amalia Zucaro, Renato Passaro, Sérgio Ulgiati	5
8	Integrated environmental accounting of a geothermal grid 2023 ·Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ·(unknown), Nicola Massarotti, Remo Santagata, Sérgio Ulgiati, Laura Vanoli	4
9	Potential Energy Savings from Circular Economy Scenarios Based on Construction and Agri-Food Waste in Italy 2021 ·Energies ·Patrizia Ghisellini, Amos Ncube, (unknown), Renato Passaro, Sérgio Ulgiati	15
10	Exploring Avoided Environmental Impacts as Well as Energy and Resource Recovery from Microbial Desalination Cell Treatment of Brine 2021 ·Energies ·Rosa Anna Nastro, Enrica Leccisi, Maria Toscanesi, Gengyuan Liu, Marco Trifuoggi, Sérgio Ulgiati	9
11	Developing a procedure for the integration of Life Cycle Assessment and Emergy Accounting approaches. The Amalfi paper case study 2020 ·Ecological Indicators ·Remo Santagata, Amalia Zucaro, Gabriella Fiorentino, (unknown), Sérgio Ulgiati	33
12	Assessing the sustainability of urban eco-systems through Emergy-based circular economy indicators 2019 ·Ecological Indicators ·Remo Santagata, Amalia Zucaro, Silvio Viglia, Maddalena Ripa, Xu Tian, Sérgio Ulgiati	61
13	A survey method towards an effective emission monitoring within the urban environment: A case study in the port of naples (italy) 2018 ·Marco Casazza, (unknown), Nicola Pirozzi, (unknown), Sérgio Ulgiati, Massimiliano Lega	5
14	Towards an energy efficient chemistry. Switching from fossil to bio-based products in a life cycle perspective 2018 ·Energy ·Gabriella Fiorentino, Amalia Zucaro, Sérgio Ulgiati	43
15	Multiple influences of land transfer in the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China 2018 ·Ecological Indicators ·Nachuan Lu, Hejie Wei, Weiguo Fan, Zihan Xu, Xuechao Wang, Kaixiong Xing, Xiaobin Dong, Silvio Viglia, Sérgio Ulgiati	33
16	Evaluation and simulation of the impact of land use change on ecosystem services based on a carbon flow model: A case study of the Manas River Basin of Xinjiang, China 2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Zihan Xu, Weiguo Fan, Hejie Wei, Peng Zhang, Jiahui Ren, (unknown), Sérgio Ulgiati, Weidong Kong, Xiaobin Dong	81
17	Pb2+ Effects on Growth, Lipids, and Protein and DNA Profiles of the Thermophilic Bacterium Thermus Thermophilus 2016 ·Microorganisms ·Barbara Nicolaus, Annarita Poli, Paola Di Donato, Ida Romano, (unknown), (unknown), Sérgio Ulgiati, Florinda Fratianni, Filomena Nazzaro, Pierangelo Orlando, Stefano Dumontet	11
18	A review on circular economy: the expected transition to a balanced interplay of environmental and economic systems breakdown → 2015 ·Journal of Cleaner Production ·Patrizia Ghisellini, Catia Cialani, Sérgio Ulgiati	4002
19	Recycling waste cooking oil into biodiesel: A life cycle assessment 2014 ·International Journal of Performability Engineering ·Maddalena Ripa, (unknown), Salvatore Mellino, Gabriella Fiorentino, Sérgio Ulgiati	28
20	La síntesis emergética: una valoración de los servicios de los ecosistemas con base termodinámica 2007 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Pedro L. Lomas, Michele Di Donato, Sérgio Ulgiati	0

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