Here comes your footer Page 1

INDIAN CONTRIBUTION TO GREEN COMPUTING RESEARCH: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY

By D. HEMAVATHY

Under the Guidance of M. SURULINATHIAssistant Professor

Department of Library and Information Science

INTRODUCTION

Computing technology plays a more and more important role in our day to day Life.

Subsequently the associated high volume of energy consumption has become a major concern both economically and environmentally.

Green computing is emerging as an inspiring solution, which is developing computing technologies that can effectively reduce energy consumption which leads to significant CO2 emission reduction.

“Green computing is to use computers and related resources in environment friendly ways”.

It takes a lot of energy to create, package, store, and move every 10-20 megabytes of data.

Even with energy prices as cheap as they are now, it will soon cost more to power a computer for four years than it does to buy a new one.

Green computing has recently been advocated in literature to reduce energy consumption in computer systems. For example, in a mobile and embedded wireless network system, energy efficiency rather than the network throughput becomes the major concern.

Green computing practices were primarily introduced by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 with the launch of the Energy Star program.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

As an emerging topic in IT management, “Green IT” practices are drawing high interest among IT organizations as well as suppliers, manufacturers and service providers.

By keeping this view in mind, the researcher intends to undertake the study on “Indian Contribution to Green Computing: A Bibliometric Study”.

This study attempts to analyses the performance of Indian researcher working in the field of Green Computing in terms of, research concentration, authorship pattern, scattering of articles in different sources, Institution wise distribution and so on.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The major objectives are framed with the exclusive notion of the present study as mentioned below:

To examine the growth of research productivity of Green Computing during 1968- 2012.

To identify the Bibliographic form-wise distribution of publications in Green Computing in India.

To study the subject-wise breakup of publications.

To determine the authorship pattern and determine the degree of collaboration in Green Computing research.

To identify the country-wise collaboration research of publications.

To assess the Institution wise research concentration of Green Computing in India

METHODOLOGY

The data was collected from Engineeringvillage2 database during the period 1968-2012.

It can be seen that nearly 596 bibliographic records of contribution in field of Green Computing over the period of 45 years.

The researcher applied the search strings “Green Computing” is used for the data extraction from the database of INSPEC, COMPENDEX and GEOBASE (totally forty five years) download the records based on the above strings.

A total of 596 records were downloaded and analyzed as per the objectives of the study.

This research study explores to examine the growth rate during the study period.

The study aims to analyze the thrust areas of research concentration on Green Computing research in India.

It is also analytical in nature with the suitable statistical tools applications in strengthening the empirical validity.

The table could clearly see that during the period 1968 - 2012 a total of 596 publications were published.

The highest publication is 80 in 2011 followed by 55 papers in 2010 and 54 papers in 2008.

The lowest publication is 1 in 1968 and 1969.

Year wise distribution of publications

Table 1 shows that year wise distribution of Publications 

Year Publications % Year Publications %2012 34 5.88 1990 8 1.382011 80 13.84 1989 4 0.692010 55 9.51 1988 1 0.172009 49 8.47 1987 11 1.902008 54 9.34 1986 7 1.212007 30 5.19 1985 5 0.872006 27 4.67 1984 6 1.042005 24 4.15 1983 1 0.172004 25 4.32 1982 2 0.352003 18 3.11 1981 5 0.872002 19 3.28 1980 5 0.872001 7 1.21 1979 5 0.872000 15 2.60 1978 5 0.871999 17 2.95 1977 6 1.041998 11 1.90 1976 6 1.041997 5 0.87 1975 1 0.171996 8 1.38 1974 2 0.351995 9 1.56 1973 3 0.521994 5 0.87 1972 4 0.691993 3 0.52 1970 4 0.691992 7 1.21 1969 1 0.171991 1 0.17 1968 1 0.17

Total 596 100

Database wise distribution of Publications

The Study reveals that the major databases covered by Engineering

Village2 on green computing reach in COMPENDEX 288 (48.32%), while,

INSPEC Comprises in 271 (45.50%) and Article in GEOBASE 37 (6.40%).

Table 2 shows that database wise distribution of Publications

Database Publications

%

COMPENDEX 28848.32

INSPEC 27145.47

GEOBASE 376.21

Total 596100.00

The study reveals that the major source of publications

covered by Engineeringvillage2 on Green computing research in

journal articles 455 (76%), while conference articles comprises

138(24%) and Article in Press comprises 2(0.34%) and Monograph

chapter 1(0.17) of the remaining literature.

Document wise distribution of Publications

Document type Publications %

Journal article 455 76.34

Conference article 138 23.81

Article in Press 2 0.34

Monograph chapter 1 0.17

Total 596 100.00

Table 4 shows that Ranking of Authors

Author Publications

Gupta, R. K. 18

Kumar, R. 16

Sen, Debabrata 13

Sharma, J. N. 12

Buddhudu, S. 11

Ajay 10

Haridasan, T. M. 10

Singh, A. K. 10

Kumar, Rajneesh 9

Ghosh, M. K. 8

Ghosh, M. K. 6

Table 4 indicates ranking of authors by number of publications. Authors “Gupta, R. K.” published highest number of 18 publications,

Next authors Kumar, R. published next highest number of 16 publications,

Sen, Debabrata published highest 13,

Sharma, J. N.published highest number 12 publications,

Buddhudu, S. highest number of 11 publications and followed by others.

The below table indicates that among the country wise publication of research on Green Computing covered by

The study tops United States with 22, and followed by United

Kingdom with 5, Germany with 3, Australia and others with 2

and 1 research publications respectively.

Country wise Collaboration Research

Country Publications

United States 22United Kingdom 5Germany 3Australia 2Brazil 2Japan 2Mexico 2Singapore 2Canada 1Denmark 1Greece 1Iran 1Italy 1Romania 1Sweden 1Uzbekistan 1

The below table analysis indicates Department-wise research productivity.

It is noted that various institutions were contributed 596 of the total publications.

It is noted that Dept. Of Phys., Univ. Of Jodhpur, Jodhpur contributed the highest number of 11 researches on green computing publications and followed by other Institution with department.

Institution wise distribution of Publications

Author affiliation Publications

Dept. Of Phys., Univ. Of Jodhpur, Jodhpur 11

Department Of Applied Mathematics, University Of Calcutta 9

Department Of Mathematics, Kurukshetra University 7

Department Of Physics, Narasinha Dutt College 6

Department Of Ocean Engineering And Naval Architecture, Indian Institute Of Technology 6

Indian Inst Of Technology 6

Dept. Of Electron. Electr. Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. Of Technol., Kharagpur 6

Dept. Of Appl. Math., Univ. Of Calcutta, Kolkata 5

Theor. Condensed Matter Phys. Div., Saha Inst. Of Nucl. Phys., Kolkata 5

Dept. Of Phys., Annamalai Univ., Annamalainagar 5

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics Division, Saha Institute Of Nuclear Physics 5

Department Of Mathematics, National Institute Of Technology 5Dept. Of Phys., Sri Venkateswara Univ., Tirupati 5

Indian Register Of Shipping 5

Here comes your footer Page 17

The paradigm shift over the period is a gradual increase in the study period but good response is observed in the year 2008, 2010 and 2011.

During 45 years period contributions in terms of number of publications is not significant.

A comparison of Indian output in relation to the world output may help in understanding the contribution in a better angle.

Though the records available in the Engineeringvillage2 reveal a small number, it is important that the Engineeringvillage2 covers only the Green computing Research Articles.

CONCLUSION

I am very glad to express my sincere gratitude to Mr. M. SURULINATHI, Assistant Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Bharathidasan University for his guidance and encouragement throughout my project.  

I would like to thank Dr. S. SRINIVASARAGAVAN, Librarian & Head, Department of Library & Information Science, and Bharathidasan University for his encouragement.  

I am very much thankful to Assistant Professors Dr. R. Balasubramani, Dr. N. Amsaveni, Mr. C. Ranganathan, Mr. B. Jeyapragash and Technical Officers B. Neelakandan, C. Kokila, P. Jayanthi and other Library staffs helping me as a resource person and providing me his valuable suggestions.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Here comes your footer Page 20