Vietnam has five scientists in the top 10,000 in the order of the ranking compiled by professors Jeroen Baas, Kevin Boyack and John P.A. Ioannidis of Stanford University.

From top L to bottom R: Vietnamese scientists Bui Tien Dieu, Nguyen Xuan Hung, Le Hoang Son, Vo Xuan Vinh, Nguyen Dinh Duc.

The five scientists are: Nguyen Dinh Duc and Le Hoang Son with the Vietnam National University – Hanoi; Nguyen Xuan Hung with the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology; Bui Tien Dieu with the Duy Tan University in Da Nang; and Vo Xuan Vinh with the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City.

With the 2021 listing, Duc, Hung and Son have been in the top 10,000 for three consecutive years.

The ranking uses citations from Scopus, the international scientific database, in October 2020, and assesses scientists for career-long citation impact up until the end of, and during, 2019.

The authors of the study have created a publicly available database of over 100,000 top scientists with standardized information on citations, h-index (an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications), hm-index (the highest number of papers of a researcher that have been cited h or more times), and citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator.

Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. Field- and subfield-specific percentiles are also provided for all scientists who have published at least five papers.

Career-long data are updated to the end of last year.

The three most-cited scientists in the list are: Michael Gratzel of Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; Walter C. Willett of T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the public health school of Harvard University; and Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Source: VnExpress