Green IT and sustainable technology development: Bibliometric overview

José A. García‐Berná, José L. Fernández‐Alemán, Juan M. Carrillo de Gea, Joaquín Nicolás, Begoña Moros, Ambrosio Toval, Javier Mancebo, Félix García and Coral Calero

Sustainable Development, 2019, vol. 27, issue 4, 613-636

Abstract: Green information technologies (GITs) constitute a field of research, whose objective is to reduce the environmental pollution caused by masses of people using and producing technology. This paper describes the search for literature related to GIT and technology sustainability in Scopus database. No restriction was imposed on the time period when carrying out the search. The data gathered revealed that the journal with the highest number of publications is Computer, and the most prolific author is Tomoya Enokido, with 45 publications. A total of 53.12% of the documents found in Scopus were Conference Paper. Although no statistically significant differences were detected, countries in the group with less CO2 kton emissions per inhabitant and less income per capita have a higher percentage of publications. The reduction of power consumption in the cloud data centers is a hot topic for future work, because the word cloud appeared in 9 out of the 10 most frequently cited papers.

Date: 2019
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