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. 21.3% 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%
- 3.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 21.3% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +2% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Green IT and Sustainability research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (572 and 490 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 572 works
- 2 United States 490 works
- 3 India 373 works
- 4 Germany 255 works
- 5 Brazil 193 works
- 6 United Kingdom 175 works
- 7 France 153 works
- 8 Italy 151 works
- 9 Spain 103 works
- 10 South Korea 96 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.
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Which institutions lead Green IT and Sustainability research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology publishes the most Green IT and Sustainability research, followed by Tsinghua University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 16 works
- 2 Tsinghua UniversityChina 15 works
- 3 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 12 works
- 4 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 12 works
- 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
- 6 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 11 works
- 7 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 11 works
- 8 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 10 works
- 9 Xi'an Jiaotong UniversityChina 10 works
- 10 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 10 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, Rajkumar Buyya and Rui Zhang.
- 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 11k citations
- 2 Rajkumar Buyya Australia 7.8k citations
- 3 Rui Zhang Singapore 6k citations
- 4 Deborah Estrin United States 5.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Green IT and Sustainability research done?
The largest centres of Green IT and Sustainability research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom).
Where is the best place to study Green IT and Sustainability?
Among universities, judged by research, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland | 86.0 | 26.1% | 39.4× | 16 | +159.0% |
| 2 | Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands | 71.4 | 25.8% | 8.3× | 12 | +115.8% |
| 3 | Tsinghua UniversityChina | 58.7 | 36.8% | 2.0× | 15 | +64.8% |
| 4 | Technische Universität BerlinGermany | 53.5 | 33.2% | 6.9× | 9 | +1.9% |
| 5 | Politecnico di TorinoItaly | 52.0 | 32.8% | 5.2× | 9 | +51.5% |
| 6 | Aalborg UniversityDenmark | 47.4 | 22.0% | 5.2× | 10 | +21.8% |
| 7 | Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands | 46.1 | 18.0% | 4.6× | 12 | +14.5% |
| 8 | Politecnico di MilanoItaly | 43.9 | 26.6% | 4.1× | 11 | -30.7% |
| 9 | Université de Pau et des Pays de l'AdourFrance | 41.5 | 0.0% | 39.7× | 9 | — |
| 10 | RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany | 39.1 | 12.1% | 3.5× | 10 | +185.4% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Green IT and Sustainability research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 2% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Green IT and Sustainability.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.