KYUNGPOOK MATHEMATICAL JOURNAL, vol.57, no.4, pp.701-709, 2017 (Journal Indexed in ESCI)
In this paper, we introduce the minimum covering Randic energy of a graph. We compute minimum covering Randic energy of some standard graphs and establish upper and lower bounds for this energy. Also we disprove a conjecture on Randic energy which is proposed by S. Alikhani and N. Ghanbari, [2].