• Why reviewing Manuscripts of other Researchers?

    The regular review of manuscripts of other researchers for Scientific Journals is time-consuming, but also interesting because one learns which investigations in the own research field is relevant worldwide. The reviews are usually single-blind, i.e. the reviewer learns who the author is, but the author not who the review carried out. In the following my last reviews since 2016 are listed, but for reasons of confidentiality without details about the authors and contents.  

  • Review#1_International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering

    March 2016: Research Paper about Multi-criteria Decision Making methods in software engineering.

  • Review#2_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    April 2016: Research Paper about how to characterize the length effect on the elasticity and tensile strength of spruce wood.


  • Review#3_South African Journal of Chemical Engineering

    December 2016: Research Paper abut the use of recycled coupling agents in WPCs.

  • Review#4_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    February 2017: Research paper about the use of bio-based compatibilizer for WPC in outdoor applications.

  • Review#5_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    April 2017: Resarch Paper about the effects of treatment direction in selected wood types on the shear strength in adhesive joints.


  • Review#6_European Journal of Wood and Wood Products

    May 2017: Reserach Paper about property change of wood-based specimens under fungal decay.  

  • Review#7_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    December 2018: Reserach Paper about physical properties and morphology of green composites.

  • Review#8_Journal of Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

    December 2018: Research Paper about properties of polymer loaded wood species. 

  • Review#9_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    March 2019: Reserach Paper about properties and morphology of green composites.

  • Review#10_Journal of Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

    March 2019: Research Paper about properties of WPC containing different wood species. 

  • Review#11_Journal of Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

    Manuscript about Wood containing plastics for impregnation.

  • Review#12_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    April 2019: Manuscript about mechanical and physical resistance of surface-modified wood-polymer composites using adhesives.  

  • Review#13_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    April 2019: Manuscript about properties of sandwich-layered Wood-Polymer Composites with different formulation for shell- and core-layers. 

  • Review#14_Journal of Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

    April 2019: Review on a Manuscript about impregnated wood`s weather resistance measured by divers physical testing. 

  • Review#15_Journal of Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

    Review on wooden materail with improved water resistance.

  • Review#16_Journal of Material Letters

    Review on a Manuscript about Wood-Plastics Composites with optimized bonding between fibers and plastics matrix enabling higher bendig strength values.

  • Review#17_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    June 2020: Manuscript about production process and properties of natural resin-based woodfiber-reinforced wall panels.

  • Review#18_Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

    September 2020: Manuscript about WPC material ageing under natural weathering and illustration of effects in a forecast-model. 

  • Review#19_Journal of Applied Sciences

    November 2020: Manuscript about Business Analystics in the field of company merger akquisition. 

  • Review#20_Journal of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

    This review was about success drivers for more social and environmental responsibility of companies.

  • Review#21_Journal of Applied Sciences

    This review was on a Manuscript investigating how to predict the degree of interdiciplinary development activities in an economy.

  • Review#22_Journal of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

    This review was about the relationship between state of market knowledge of a comany`s management and the corporate innovation performance.

  • Review#23_European Journal of Wood and Wood Products

    This reviews was about biobased plastics composites and their physical and mechanical properties depending on the compound formulation.

  • Review#24_Journal of Building Engineering

    This reviews was about the energy efficiency of a building in the Baltic States presented as a case study

  • Review#25_European Management Journal

    This reviews was about the corporate success when environmental product and process development becomes the main strategy of a company. 

  • Review#26_Journal of Environmental Challenges

    This review was about  progress in environmental standards for apparel production in development countries. 

  • Review#27_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about  simulation technique for building geometrical arrangement and effets from solar radiation on indoor climate. 

  • Review#28_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about  a anaylsis of indoor climate and energy consumption of a building investigated by simulation software. 

  • Review#29_Science of the Total Environment

    This review was about  a chemical analysis of micro-plastics in the environment and its degradation behavior. 

  • Review#30_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about  the effect and sensitivity of inhabitant`s characteristics on energy consumption of buildings.  

  • Review#31_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about  development of a mathematical model describing how waiting times for clients in public service institutions can be optimized.  

  • Review#32_Journal of Powder Technology

    This review was about  material property testing of composites from concrete powder, wood dust and biobased additives.  

  • Review#33_Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

    This review was about  a comparison of different compact facade systems in terms of physical ageing behavior after weathering.  

  • Review#34_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about  a case study of simulated indoor climate under variable building parameters.  

  • Review#35_Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

    This review was about  a material performance testing and analysis of fibre-reinforced plastics compostes.   

  • Review#36_Journal of Resources, Conservation & Recycling

    November 2021: This review was about  a local consumer study on plastics use habits.   

  • Review#37_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about  a case study of demolition waste handling in a third country.  

  • Review#38_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about  a multi sampling of wood-based materials to identify a strong correlation of thermal conductivity with other relevant material properties. 

  • Review#39_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    This review was about  a material sampling where Wood Plastics Composites was tested under different formulations and recycling aspects. 

  • Review#40_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about  a model-theoretical analysis of omni-channel retailing and sustainability effects. 

  • Review#41_Journal of Fibers and Polymers

    This review was about  WPC testing under particular preconditioning and different compound formulation. 

  • Review#42_Journal of Composite Structures

    This review was about  the current state in research of polymer-based gues and wood.

  • Review#43_Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

    This review was about creep behavior of wood-polymer compounds.

  • Review#44_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about a case study on energy efficiency of a refurbished public building in  mediterranian region.

  • Review#45_Science of the Total Environment

    This review was about a WPC material tesing applying a particular processing method for production of specimens.

  • Review#46_Science of Technovation

    This review was about strategies on how to effectively market novel bioplastics products.

  • Review#47_Global Environmental Change

    This review was about how local activities can positively affect a system change towards higher  sustainability in the fashion industry.

  • Review#48_Journal of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

    This review was about how financial reporting affects a firm`s innovativeness.

  • Review#49_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about the application of auto-responsive facade technologies under divers climates.

  • Review#50_Journal of Wood Material Science and Engineering

    This review was about properties of WPC with different biofibers from furits.

  • Review#51_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about a comparison between different production processes of bioplastics under social, technical, economic and ecologic aspects. 

  • Review#52_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about strength investigations on WPC under variable sizes. 

  • Review#53_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about the effectiveness of labeling in the energy sector. 

  • Review#54_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about attitude measurements of consumers towards eco-labels for food. 

  • Review#55_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about principles in nature-inspired innovating. 

  • Review#56_Journal of Construction & Building Materials

    This review was about an empiric testing on coconut wood strength. 

  • Review#57_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about economic impacts from national development and diffusion of climate friendly technologies. 

  • Review#58_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about material properties tested for high-pressure laminates with specia pre-conditioning. 

  • Review#59_Journal of Building Engineering

    This review was about the assessment of long-term damage potential of clay-based facades. 

  • Review#60_Journal of Materials

    This review was about fire resistance of WPC by retarding additives. 

  • Review#61_Journal of Cleaner Production

    This review was about a consumer survey about preferences toward bioplastics. 

  • Review#62_Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management

    June 2023: This review was about plastic/rock-dust composites and investigations of mechanical properties.

  • Review#63_Journal of Building Engineering

    June 2023: This review was about material property testing of glass-fiber reinforced plastic composites.

  • Review#64_Journal of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management

    July 2023: This review was about  a study on the effect from expert recognition on the productivity of innovation team members.

  • Review#65_Journal of Cleaner Production

    July 2023: This review was about  a study on bio-agriculture and main topics affecting this industry.

  • Review#66_Journal of Building and Environment

    July 2023: This Manuscript reports about a field experimental study of building facade geometry an the air ventilation. 

  • Review#67_Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry

    July 2023: This Manuscript reports about a study of performance characteristics of MDF-Dust/rWPC compounds. 

  • Review#68_Helion

    July 2023: This Manuscript reports about a study of performance characteristics of thermoformed WPC sheets. 

  • Review#69_Polymer Composites

    September 2023: This Manuscript reports about a multi sampling of WPCs under differeent pre-treatment of fiber additions. 

  • Review#70_Results in Materials

    September 2023: This Manuscript reports about a study on WPC material change effects from variation of process parameters and compound formulation. 

  • Review#71_Bioeconomy Journal

    October2023: This Manuscript reports about a study on market supply of biopased products. 

  • Review#72_Journal of Bioresources and Bioproductsl

    October 2023: This Manuscript reports about a WPC study on material properties. 

  • Review#73_Journal of Sustainable Production and Consumption

    December 2023: This Manuscript reports about a review on success factors for plastics transition toward bio-basedness in the industry.

  • Review#74_Journal of Cleaner Production

    January 2024: This Manuscript reports about a consumer study on eco-labeling und advertisement.

  • Review#75_Innovation and Green Development

    March 2024: This Manuscript reports about a case study on success potential of green materials.

  • Review#76_Journal of Building Engineering

    March 2024: This Manuscript reports about fire resistance behavior of biobased composites.

  • Review#77_Applied Energy

    March 2024: This Manuscript reports about testing of PCM-modified WPC .

  • Review#78_Cleaner Materials

    March 2024: This Manuscript reports about a review on different WPC formulations.

  • Review#79_Sustainable Development

    April 2024: This Manuscript reports about a review on consumer perception in biobased materials.

  • Review#80_Cleaner Production Letters

    June 2024: This Manuscript reports about a consumer study of acceptance of a climate friendly material in convenience goods.

  • Review#81_Structures

    June 2024: This Manuscript reports about WPC strength testing unter variation of temperature and load impacts.

  • Review#82_Journal of Cleaner Production

    July 2024: This Manuscript reports about a consumer survey on sustainable plastic products.

  • Review#83_Journal of Cleaner Production

    August 2024: This Manuscript reports about a literature review about sustainability criterie.

Biologisch abbaubare Gebäudehüllen der Zukunft: Congress Presentation, November 2015, Bern, Switzerland (deutsch).

Bio-based  Composites Façades: Congress Presentation, November 2016, Pinkafeld, Austria (englisch).

Sustainable Bioplastics-based Cladding: Congress Presentation, October 2016, Bern, Switzerland (englisch).

Performance Tests of Plastics-based Cladding Profiles: Presentation at the AMI Profiles Congress, September 2017, Cologne, Germany (englisch).

Bio-based Plastics Composites for Sustainable Building Skins: Presentation at the Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Regional Conference, June 2016, Zürich, Switzerland (englisch).

Self-regulation in the 
bio fibre-reinforced plastics industry: Presentation at the AMI Plastics Regulations 2018, 14-15 March 2018, Cologne, Germany (englisch).

Norms and performance tests for wall cladding made from WPC: Presentation at the AMI Wood-Plastic Composites Conference, 7-9 March 2016, Vienna, Austria (englisch).

The EN 15534-5 for cladding to become a construction product norm: Pesentation at the AMI Wood-Plastic Composites Conference, 14-15 September 2018, Vienna, Austria (englisch).

Long-therm physico-structural performance of natural fibre-reinforced plastics composites in facades: Presentation at the 3rd International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials, 16-28 June 2019, Belfast, UK (englisch).

Comparison of naturally and artificially weathered wood-polymer composites: An algorithm-based approach: Presentation at the Polymer Testing & Analysis Conference, 18-19 September 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany (englisch).

PVC-based wood-plastic composites in window frames: Presentation at the AMI Profiles Conference, 12-13 November 2019, Cologne, Germany (englisch).

How WPC as packaging material is valued by consumers: Presentation at the AMI Wood-Plastic Composites virtual summit 04-05 November 2020 (englisch).

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