Stephan Lutter

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Stephan Lutter is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Economics and Econometrics and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Lutter has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Environmental Engineering, 10 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 9 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Recurrent topics in Stephan Lutter's work include Environmental Impact and Sustainability (26 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (9 papers) and Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (7 papers). Stephan Lutter is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Impact and Sustainability (26 papers), Extraction and Separation Processes (9 papers) and Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy (7 papers). Stephan Lutter collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Netherlands and Germany. Stephan Lutter's co-authors include Stefan Giljum, Arnold Tukker, Richard Wood, Konstantin Stadler, Arjan de Koning, Martin Brückner, Moana Simas, Thomas Wiedmann, Manfred Lenzen and Harry C. Wilting and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecological Economics, Marine Pollution Bulletin and Global Environmental Change.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Lutter

49 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting

2011 366 citations Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, Fridolin Krausmann et al. Journal of Industrial Ecology profile →
Global Sustainability Accounting—Developing EXIOBASE for Multi-Regional Footprint Analysis

2014 349 citations Richard Wood, Konstantin Stadler et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Lutter Austria	25	2.1k	1.1k	615	469	358	53	3.1k
Nina Eisenmenger Austria	26	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	816 1.3×	433 0.9×	424 1.2×	46	4.1k
James West Australia	19	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	626 1.0×	363 0.8×	421 1.2×	35	2.9k
Jan Weinzettel Czechia	21	1.9k 0.9×	899 0.8×	410 0.7×	266 0.6×	256 0.7×	40	2.9k
Arjan de Koning Netherlands	27	2.4k 1.1×	894 0.8×	655 1.1×	513 1.1×	583 1.6×	55	4.3k
Xu Tian China	33	1.4k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	412 0.7×	267 0.6×	298 0.8×	82	2.8k
Helmut Schütz Germany	18	1.5k 0.7×	550 0.5×	506 0.8×	305 0.7×	362 1.0×	47	2.6k
Anke Schaffartzik Austria	24	1.2k 0.6×	795 0.7×	583 0.9×	246 0.5×	234 0.7×	60	2.8k
Shen Qu China	37	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	465 0.8×	462 1.0×	529 1.5×	104	4.2k
Huijuan Dong China	45	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	506 0.8×	755 1.6×	1.0k 2.9×	101	5.2k
Stefan Bringezu Germany	35	2.0k 1.0×	632 0.6×	711 1.2×	647 1.4×	684 1.9×	157	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Lutter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Lutter

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Wang, Yao, Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang, et al.. (2025). Doubling of the global freshwater footprint of material production over two decades. Nature Sustainability. 8(12). 1554–1566.

Giljum, Stefan, Victor Maus, Laura J. Sonter, et al.. (2025). Metal mining is a global driver of environmental change. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 6(7). 441–455. 6 indexed citations

Méndez, Miguel Rodríguez, et al.. (2024). Taking away the economic “water productivity” illusion: An indicator inapt to inform meaningful water policies. Ecological Indicators. 165. 112220–112220. 6 indexed citations

Schandl, Heinz, Raymundo Marcos-Martínez, James West, et al.. (2024). Global material flows and resource productivity: The 2024 update. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 28(6). 2012–2031. 7 indexed citations

Lenzen, Manfred, Arne Geschke, James West, et al.. (2021). Implementing the material footprint to measure progress towards Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12. Nature Sustainability. 5(2). 157–166. 165 indexed citations

Lutter, Stephan, et al.. (2021). Estimating water input in the mining industry in Brazil: A methodological proposal in a data-scarce context. The Extractive Industries and Society. 9. 101015–101015. 6 indexed citations

West, James, Mirko Lieber, Stephan Lutter, & Heinz Schandl. (2020). Proposal for a new compilation system for metal ores in economy wide material flow accounting. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 24(6). 1220–1233. 3 indexed citations

Giljum, Stefan, Hanspeter Wieland, Stephan Lutter, et al.. (2019). The impacts of data deviations between MRIO models on material footprints: A comparison of EXIOBASE, Eora, and ICIO. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 23(4). 946–958. 54 indexed citations

Tost, Michael, Diego I. Murguía, Michael Hitch, et al.. (2019). Ecosystem services costs of metal mining and pressures on biomes. The Extractive Industries and Society. 7(1). 79–86. 34 indexed citations

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Wood, Richard, Konstantin Stadler, Moana Simas, et al.. (2018). Growth in Environmental Footprints and Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Resource Efficiency Indicators from EXIOBASE3. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(3). 553–564. 167 indexed citations

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Tukker, Arnold, Arjan de Koning, Anne Owen, et al.. (2018). Towards Robust, Authoritative Assessments of Environmental Impacts Embodied in Trade: Current State and Recommendations. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 22(3). 585–598. 74 indexed citations

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Wood, Richard J., Konstantin Stadler, Moana Simas, et al.. (2017). Growth In Environmental Footprints And Environmental Impacts Embodied In Trade: Resource Efficiency Indicators From Exiobase3. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Tukker, Arnold, Stefan Giljum, Arjan de Koning, et al.. (2016). Environmental and resource footprints in a global context: Europe’s structural deficit in resource endowments. Global Environmental Change. 40. 171–181. 192 indexed citations

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Friedland, René, Stephan Lutter, Konrad Ott, et al.. (2015). World Ocean Review 2015 : living with the oceans 4. Sustainable use of our oceans - making ideas work.

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Schmidt-Bleek, Friedrich, Boris Braun, Jaakko Kooroshy, et al.. (2013). Green economies around the world? Implications of resource use for development and the environment: new report. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. 14(1). 4 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Meghan, Raimund Bleischwitz, Stefan Bringezu, et al.. (2012). The eco-innovation challenge : pathways to a resource-efficient Europe ; annual report 2010. Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute). 3 indexed citations

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Fischer‐Kowalski, Marina, Fridolin Krausmann, Stefan Giljum, et al.. (2011). Methodology and Indicators of Economy‐wide Material Flow Accounting. Journal of Industrial Ecology. 15(6). 855–876. 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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Giljum, Stefan, Monika Dittrich, Stefan Bringezu, Christine Polzin, & Stephan Lutter. (2010). Resource use and resource productivity in Asia : trends over the past 25 years. Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute). 11 indexed citations

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Bleischwitz, Raimund, Bettina Bahn‐Walkowiak, Philipp Schepelmann, et al.. (2009). Eco-innovation - putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy efficient economy : study and briefing notes. Publication Server of the Wuppertal Institute (Wuppertal Institute). 2 indexed citations

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Bleischwitz, Raimund, Bettina Bahn‐Walkowiak, Philipp Schepelmann, et al.. (2009). Eco-innovation - putting the EU on the path to a resource and energy efficient economy. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 38. 56 indexed citations

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