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D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
66
Citations
30861
World Ranking
1366
National Ranking
448

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
33814
World Ranking
1244
National Ranking
535

Sangwon Suh publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sangwon Suh sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 191 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Sangwon Suh D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sangwon Suh sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sangwon Suh is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with extensive contributions to subfields such as environmental engineering, economics and econometrics, pollution, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of main topics including environmental impact and sustainability, recycling and waste management techniques, microplastics and plastic pollution, climate change policy and economics, carbon dioxide capture technologies, energy, environment, and transportation policies, and sustainable supply chain management.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment, 2020, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emission plastics by a circular carbon economy, 2021, Science
  • Towards circular plastics within planetary boundaries, 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • The carbon footprint of the carbon feedstock CO2, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science
  • Integrating life cycle assessment and multi criteria decision making for sustainable waste management: Key issues and recommendations for future studies, 2022, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Sangwon Suh has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including André Bardow, Yang Qiu, Roland Geyer, Yuwei Qin, and Dingsheng Li.

The scientist's publications commonly appear in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Sustainability
  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Nature Communications
  • Journal of Industrial Ecology
  • Energy & Environmental Science

Best Publications

  • Recent developments in Life Cycle Assessment.

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

  • Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment

    Ali Chamas;Hyunjin Moon;Jiajia Zheng;Yang Qiu

  • Life cycle assessment: Part 1: Framework, goal and scope definition, inventory analysis, and applications

    G Rebitzer;Tomas Ekvall;R Frischknecht;D Hunkeler

  • The material footprint of nations.

    Thomas O. Wiedmann;Thomas O. Wiedmann;Thomas O. Wiedmann;Heinz Schandl;Manfred Lenzen;Daniel Moran

  • Global life cycle releases of engineered nanomaterials

    Arturo A. Keller;Suzanne McFerran;Anastasiya Lazareva;Sangwon Suh

  • System Boundary Selection in Life-Cycle Inventories Using Hybrid Approaches

    Sangwon Suh;Manfred Lenzen;Graham J. Treloar;Hiroki Hondo

  • Strategies to reduce the global carbon footprint of plastics

    Jiajia Zheng;Sangwon Suh

  • Methods for Life Cycle Inventory of a product

    Sangwon Suh;Gjalt Huppes

  • Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies.

    Edgar G. Hertwich;Thomas Gibon;Evert A. Bouman;Anders Arvesen

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: an assessment.

    Felix Creutzig;Nijavalli H. Ravindranath;Göran Berndes;Simon Bolwig

  • The computational structure of life cycle assessment

    Reinout Heijungs;Sangwon Suh

  • INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS AND CARBON FOOTPRINTING: AN OVERVIEW OF APPLICATIONS

    J. C. Minx;T. Wiedmann;R. Wood;G. P. Peters

  • Handbook on Life Cycle Assessment

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

  • Climate change mitigation potential of carbon capture and utilization in the chemical industry.

    Arne Kätelhön;Raoul Meys;Sarah Deutz;Sangwon Suh

  • 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

  • Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emission plastics by a circular carbon economy.

    Raoul Meys;Arne Kätelhön;Marvin Bachmann;Benedikt Winter;Benedikt Winter

  • Functions, commodities and environmental impacts in an ecological–economic model

    Sangwon Suh

  • COMPARISON OF BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN APPROACHES TO CALCULATING THE WATER FOOTPRINTS OF NATIONS

    Kuishuang Feng;Ashok Chapagain;Sangwon Suh;Stephan Pfister

  • Application of hybrid life cycle approaches to emerging energy technologies--the case of wind power in the UK

    Thomas O. Wiedmann;Thomas O. Wiedmann;Sangwon Suh;Kuishuang Feng;Manfred Lenzen

  • Evolution of 'designed' industrial symbiosis networks in the Ulsan Eco-industrial Park: 'research and development into business' as the enabling framework

    Shishir Kumar Behera;Jung-Hoon Kim;Sang-Yoon Lee;Sangwon Suh

  • Handbook of input-output economics in industrial ecology

    Sangwon Suh

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinout Heijungs
Reinout Heijungs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Gjalt Huppes
Gjalt Huppes Leiden University
André Bardow
André Bardow ETH Zurich
Arturo A. Keller
Arturo A. Keller University of California, Santa Barbara
Jeroen B. Guinée
Jeroen B. Guinée Leiden University
Mark A. J. Huijbregts
Mark A. J. Huijbregts Radboud University
Klaus Hubacek
Klaus Hubacek University of Groningen
Thomas Wiedmann
Thomas Wiedmann University of New South Wales
Manfred Lenzen
Manfred Lenzen University of Sydney
Bo Pedersen Weidema
Bo Pedersen Weidema Aalborg University

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