Green technology literature from India as reflected in Web of Science from 2000 to 2015

S Aswathy (1) , Govindaraj Saravanan (2)

1 LPSC - Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre
2 IFP - Institut Français de Pondichéry

Web of Science (WoS) is a major citation database for scholarly literature. Green Technology is a dynamic area of research in which majority of research work takes place and includes the subjects like Renewable Energy, Green Chemistry, Ecology, etc. The citation data on Green Technology has been retrieved for a period from 2000 to 2015 from WoS, and aims to analyse the Indian contribution in the subject. A total of 16652 papers were downloaded and analyzed by using Hiscite™. This paper discusses on document type, year-wise, RGR & DT, country-wise, institution-wise, and also verifies the fitness of Bradford's law of scattering. The result shows that the research productivity of the educational and research institutions is much recognized in this subject.

Mots clés: Scientometrics; Web of Science; Green Technology; Bradford's Law

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

S Aswathy, Govindaraj Saravanan. Green technology literature from India as reflected in Web of Science from 2000 to 2015. Library Philosophy and Practice, 2019. ⟨halshs-02108200⟩