2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.06.044
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Carbon footprint of a scientific publication: A case study at Dalian University of Technology, China

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“…They estimate that digitalisation can achieve energy savings for journals/articles with low readership and when they displace lengthy car journeys to a library. Song et al (2016) estimate that producing a review article at a Chinese university requires ∼38 MJ of energy consumption, allowing for searching, downloading and reading several information sources. Reading accounts for 65% of the total, assuming one quarter is on a desktop and the remainder in print.…”
Section: E-publicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They estimate that digitalisation can achieve energy savings for journals/articles with low readership and when they displace lengthy car journeys to a library. Song et al (2016) estimate that producing a review article at a Chinese university requires ∼38 MJ of energy consumption, allowing for searching, downloading and reading several information sources. Reading accounts for 65% of the total, assuming one quarter is on a desktop and the remainder in print.…”
Section: E-publicationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Globally, information and communication technology produces an estimated 1.4% of total global carbon emissions (Malmodin & Lund en 2018). Whether there is an environmental advantage of reading a journal article online will depend on the lifetime of the device used, energy efficiency of the device, reading time and number of readers; one study estimated casual reading of academic articles on electronic devices to be more environmentally friendly than reading paper copies (Song et al 2016).…”
Section: Future Directions For Sustainable Veterinary Anaesthesiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…At the same time, what are the nefarious environmental impacts of such a biblical flood of publications (Pautasso 2012;Song et al 2015) and associated meetings (Li et al 2014;Parsons 2015), and could one ever manage to keep up to date with the topic, when searching Google Scholar for invasive species returns about 16,800 findings published in 2014 alone (not too bad: only about 2/h every day of the year)? The pace of publishing is increasing at breakneck speed: In Web of Science (core collection, 1991-2014, as of October 2015) a search for (invasive species OR alien species OR exotic species OR non-native species OR invasion biology OR invasion ecology) results in about 18,000 items, of which about half appeared since 2010 and one-third appeared since 2012.…”
Section: Literature Citedmentioning
confidence: 99%