2026 Reinout Heijungs: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	73	840	795	21	19	224	29774
Environmental Sciences	80	945	897	26	24	281	34732

Overview

Reinout Heijungs is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, contributing significantly to related subfields and topics.

The main fields of study covered in their work are:

Environmental Science

Within this broad domain, their research further addresses these subfields:

Environmental Engineering
Economics and Econometrics
Strategy and Management
Building and Construction
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Their publications often explore themes such as:

Environmental Impact and Sustainability
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Climate Change Policy and Economics
Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
Recycling and Waste Management Techniques

Reinout Heijungs has a track record of publications in several scholarly journals, frequently contributing to:

The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
Journal of Industrial Ecology
Sustainability
SSRN Electronic Journal
Frontiers in Sustainability

Some recent papers authored or co-authored include:

"LC-IMPACT: A regionalized life cycle damage assessment method," 2020, Journal of Industrial Ecology
"Antimicrobial Activity of Necklace Orchids is Phylogenetically Clustered and can be Predicted With a Biological Response Method," 2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology
"Imbalance and drivers of carbon emissions embodied in trade along the Belt and Road Initiative," 2020, Applied Energy
"Attributional & Consequential Life Cycle Assessment: Definitions, Conceptual Characteristics and Modelling Restrictions," 2021, Sustainability
"On quantifying sources of uncertainty in the carbon footprint of biofuels: crop/feedstock, LCA modelling approach, land-use change, and GHG metrics," 2022, Biofuel Research Journal

The scientist often collaborates with several frequent co-authors, including:

Jeroen B. Guinée
Stefano Cucurachi
Barbara Gravendeel
Kai Fang
Miguel Brandão

Best Publications

Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment: Operational Guide to the ISO Standards

JA de Bruijn;Guinée;M Gorrée;R. Heijungs

5498
Citations
Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.

Göran Finnveden;Michael Z. Hauschild;Tomas Ekvall;Jeroen B. Guinée

4106
Citations
Life Cycle Assessment: Past, Present, and Future†

Jeroen B. Guinée;Reinout Heijungs;Gjalt Huppes;Alessandra Zamagni

1995
Citations
Environmental life cycle assessment of products : guide and backgrounds (Part 1)

R. Heijungs;J.B. Guinée;G. Huppes;R.M. Lankreijer

1407
Citations
Life cycle assessment An operational guide to the ISO standards

Jeroen B. Guinée;Reinout Heijungs;Gjalt Huppes;Arjan de Koning

1229
Citations
The computational structure of life cycle assessment

Reinout Heijungs;Sangwon Suh

775
Citations
Identifying best existing practice for characterization modeling in life cycle impact assessment

Michael Zwicky Hauschild;Mark Goedkoop;Jeroen Guinée;Reinout Heijungs

769
Citations
Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment

Hans de Bruijn;Robbert van Duin;Mark A. J. Huijbregts;Jeroen B. Guinee

622
Citations
Environmental life cycle assessment of products

R. Heijungs;J.B. Guinée

617
Citations
Environmental Impact of Products (EIPRO) Analysis of the life cycle environmental impacts related to the final consumption of the EU-25

A. Tukker;G. Huppes;J.B. Guinée;R. Heijungs

524
Citations
Life cycle assessment and sustainability analysis of products, materials and technologies. Toward a scientific framework for sustainability life cycle analysis

Reinout Heijungs;Gjalt Huppes;Jeroen B. Guinée

475
Citations
Attributional and consequential LCA of milk production

Marlies A. Thomassen;Randi Dalgaard;Reinout Heijungs;Imke de Boer

460
Citations
Theoretical exploration for the combination of the ecological, energy, carbon, and water footprints: Overview of a footprint family

Kai Fang;Reinout Heijungs;Geert R. de Snoo

403
Citations
The LCIA midpoint-damage framework of the UNEP/SETAC Life Cycle Initiative

Olivier Jolliet;Ruedi Müller-Wenk;Jane Bare;Alan Brent

402
Citations
Lights and shadows in consequential LCA

Alessandra Zamagni;Jeroen B. Guinée;Reinout Heijungs;Paolo Masoni

380
Citations
Towards a global multi-regional environmentally extended input-output database

Arnold Tukker;Evgueni Poliakov;Reinout Heijungs;Troy Hawkins

376
Citations
Allocation and 'what-if' scenarios in life cycle assessment of waste management systems.

Reinout Heijungs;Jeroen B. Guinée

316
Citations
Life Cycle Assessment

R. Heijungs;J.B. Guinée

295
Citations
Electricity generation and GHG emission reduction potentials through different municipal solid waste management technologies: A comparative review

Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar;Hossein Ghanavati;Behrouz B. Dashti;Reinout Heijungs

291
Citations
A review of approaches to treat uncertainty in LCA

Reinout Heijungs;Mark A. J. Huijbregts

284
Citations
Three strategies to overcome the limitations of life-cycle assessment

Helias A. Udo de Haes;Reinout Heijungs;Sangwon Suh;Gjalt Huppes

275
Citations
Economic allocation: Examples and derived decision tree

Jeroen B. Guinée;Reinout Heijungs;Gjalt Huppes

264
Citations
Life-cycle assessment for energy analysis and management

Helias A. Udo de Haes;Reinout Heijungs

260
Citations
Identification of key issues for further investigation in improving the reliability of life-cycle assessments

Reinout Heijungs

260
Citations