ABSTRACT
In the last few decades, life cycle assessment has been a topic of interest growing widely. Life cycle assessment plays an important role in assessing the carbon emissions as well as environmental impacts generated from the manufacturing or production activities during the life cycle of a product. This research work aims to summarize the research trends, advancements, and future research direction in life cycle assessment. The literature reported in this study is based on a database of Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) from 2000 to 2019 and is further categorized into different sections. Different types of analysis have been done in this chapter, such as author analysis, trend analysis, country analysis, discipline-wise analysis, and source analysis. It has been found that in the last five years adoption of LCA has become popular in the manufacturing industries which help to promote sustainability. Also, the Government policies among the global and customer pressure forced many industries to adopt sustainable production. Also, some business has been seen in 56both of the databases because of common authors with highly cited publications in both databases. A list of the top 10 highly cited papers is also assessed from both the Scopus and web of sciences databases. The present results study is beneficial for the researchers to decide their future research direction in the research area of life cycle assessment and to trace its evolution globally.
