This paper presents a critical review of a representative pool of 169 scientific papers and 175 patents, from the last twenty years, proposing new eco-assessment software, in order to draw an overview about their main features and functionalities. Each document was analysed in relation to its source (academia or industry), the application field of the assessed product, the type of use, the application phase, the data entry modality, the assessed product life cycle phases and items, the exploited methods and tools for the eco-assessment, the implemented eco-improvement strategies. Then, based on these collected data, all the documents were classified on multiple levels in accordance with the rigorous ontology of the Life Cycle Assessment methodology. While the detailed analysis of the results allowed us to identify their distributions at to date and their time trends. The obtained results highlighted the trend towards the increase in the specificity of the software with respect to the application field, the focus on the quantification of the environmental impacts deriving from the use of the product and the proposed eco-improvement strategies mainly pointing in this direction. The provided outcomes may be used by researchers and professionals for classifying the many available software and identifying the most suitable ones in relation to their specific exigences.

本文对最近20年来代表169篇科学论文和175项专利的代表性文献进行了严格审查，提出了新的生态评估软件，以概述其主要特征和功能。分析了每个文档的来源（学术界或行业），被评估产品的应用领域，使用类型，应用阶段，数据输入方式，被评估产品生命周期的阶段和项目，开发方法和生态评估的工具，已实施的生态改善策略。然后，根据这些收集的数据，根据生命周期评估方法的严格本体将所有文档分为多个级别。尽管对结果进行了详细的分析，但我们仍可以确定它们迄今的分布以及它们的时间趋势。所获得的结果突出了软件在应用领域方面的专用性不断提高的趋势，对产品使用带来的环境影响量化的关注以及主要针对该方向的拟议生态改进策略。研究人员和专业人员可以使用所提供的结果对许多可用软件进行分类，并根据其特定功能确定最合适的软件。重点放在量化因使用产品而产生的环境影响以及拟议的生态改善策略中，主要是朝这个方向发展的。研究人员和专业人员可以使用所提供的结果对许多可用软件进行分类，并根据其特定功能确定最合适的软件。重点放在量化因使用产品而产生的环境影响以及拟议的生态改善策略中，主要是朝这个方向发展的。研究人员和专业人员可以使用所提供的结果对许多可用软件进行分类，并根据其特定功能确定最合适的软件。