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Green IT and Sustainability

Green IT and Sustainability is a research topic within Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1954. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the energy consumption of mobile devices, particularly smartphones, and the associated networks. It covers topics such as power estimation, battery behavior, green IT principles, wireless network performance, sustainability, and information systems' impact on environmental emissions.

  • Energy Consumption
  • Mobile Devices
  • Smartphones
  • Green IT
  • Power Estimation
  • Wireless Networks
  • Sustainability
  • Information Systems
  • Battery Behavior
  • ICT Emissions
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Green IT and Sustainability

Which countries lead Green IT and Sustainability research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (679 and 581 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 679 works
  2. 2 United States 581 works
  3. 3 India 466 works
  4. 4 Germany 288 works
  5. 5 Brazil 204 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 199 works
  7. 7 Italy 169 works
  8. 8 France 168 works
  9. 9 Spain 111 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 103 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 22.9%United States: 19.6%India: 15.7%Germany: 9.7%6 others listed: 32.1%23%largest
China679 · 22.9%United States581 · 19.6%India466 · 15.7%Germany288 · 9.7%6 others listed954 · 32.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Green IT and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Green IT and Sustainability research, followed by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 43 works
  2. 2 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 29 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 26 works
  4. 4 Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 19 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 19 works
  6. 6 Tsinghua UniversityChina 18 works
  7. 7 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 14 works
  8. 8 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 14 works
  9. 9 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 13 works
  10. 10 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Green IT and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Green IT and Sustainability include Zhong Lin Wang, Simon Iain Hay and Wei Huang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 Simon Iain Hay United States 452k citations
  3. 3 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  4. 4 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Green IT and Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Green IT and Sustainability is "White organic light-emitting diodes with fluorescent tube efficiency" (Sebastian Reineke, Frank Lindner, Gregor Schwartz et al., 2009), with 3,472 citations. Next come "Mobile Edge Computing: A Survey on Architecture and Computation Offloading" (3,092) and "Demand Side Management: Demand Response, Intelligent Energy Systems, and Smart Loads" (2,923).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 White organic light-emitting diodes with fluorescent tube efficiency Sebastian Reineke, Frank Lindner, Gregor Schwartz et al. · Nature May 2009 3,472
2 Mobile Edge Computing: A Survey on Architecture and Computation Offloading Pavel Mach, Zdenek Becvar · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Open access 2017 3,092
3 Demand Side Management: Demand Response, Intelligent Energy Systems, and Smart Loads Peter Pálenský, Dietmar Dietrich · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 29 Jun 2011 2,923
4 The Internet of Things (IoT): Applications, investments, and challenges for enterprises In Kyu Lee, Kyoochun Lee · Business Horizons 2 May 2015 2,810
5 Autonomous Demand-Side Management Based on Game-Theoretic Energy Consumption Scheduling for the Future Smart Grid Amir-Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, Vincent W. S. Wong, Juri Jatskevich et al. · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 30 Nov 2010 2,774
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Where is Green IT and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Green IT and Sustainability research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Seoul (South Korea) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Espoo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 140 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  3. 3 SeoulSouth Korea 53 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 45 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 41 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 39 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 38 works
  9. 9 BerlinGermany 32 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. EspooFI · 20.2 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Green IT and Sustainability than the world average.

See Green IT and Sustainability on the map

Where is the best place to study Green IT and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and Tsinghua University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 13.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tsinghua UniversityCornell UniversityDelft University of …Lappeenranta-Lahti U…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 81.811.3%46.4×19 +218.2%
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 77.717.8%5.2×14 +35.9%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 73.219.0%1.9×18 +4.6%
4Cornell UniversityUnited States 65.918.2%1.9×10 +412.8%
5Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 61.83.8%8.6×14 +50.2%
6Politecnico di MilanoItaly 58.113.0%4.4×13 +24.3%
7Aalborg UniversityDenmark 57.813.1%5.0×11 +22.4%
8University of OuluFinland 56.614.5%7.5×8 +12.7%
9Ghent UniversityBelgium 53.89.0%3.4×10 +139.2%
10Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 52.217.6%1.5×11 +83.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Green IT and Sustainability, country by country

Is Green IT and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Green IT and Sustainability.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Green IT and Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Green IT and Sustainability0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Green IT and Sustainability over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Green IT and Sustainability10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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