期刊名称:International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
印刷版ISSN:2229-5984
电子版ISSN:2249-5576
出版年度:2018
卷号:8
期号:1
页码:31-36
语种:English
出版社:International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
摘要:The present study examined 3468 global publications in e-waste research, as indexed in Scopus database during 2007-16. E-waste research registered an annual average growth rate of (20.90%) and averaged 13.65 citations per paper. Among broad subjects, environmental science accounted for the highest publications share (52.13%) in e-waste research, followed by engineering (28.81%), chemistry (12.95%), materials science (10.76%), and others. The top 20 productive organizations and authors accounted for (25.29%) and (16.49%) global publications share respectively and (44.37%) and (40.11%) global citations share respectively during the period. The global e-waste research (2537) is widely scattered across journals, with the top 15 most productive journals accounted for (42.81%) share of total output reported in journal medium during the period. Waste Management contributed the largest number of papers (254), followed by Environment Science Technology (132 papers), Journal of Hazardous Materials (101 papers), Waste Management Research (91 papers), Resource Conservation Recycling (89 papers), Chemosphere (71 papers), Science of the Total Environment (65 papers), etc. during 2007-15.