Global Perspective of Research Productivity in Green Electronics: A Scientometric Analysis

Abstract

The paper presents a Scientometric analysis of publications of green electronics at global level during 1989 to 2014 as reflected web of science database. The study covers 7142 publications during the period. The study focused on author productivity, most used journals, sources, country, language etc.. It is found from the analysis that 92.31% of the articles were produced by multiple authors. It is found that the multi-author distribution is the most elevated contrast with single-author distribution. “Cederbaum LS” published highest number of articles for the study period. 91 percent of collaboration authors articles published during the study periods. Chinese Academy of Sciences had contributed the highest number of research publications. The USA country has the highest productivity and highest local and global citation scores measured. Physical Review B has emerged as the most preferred journal by authors for publication.