5 Vietnamese scientists in world rankings

Scientists were awarded the "Rising Star" badge - the world's outstanding rising scientific stars, announced by the website Research.com on December 2.

Research.com, a prestigious online portal for scientists around the world, has just announced the results of the ranking of scientists with outstanding achievements in scientific publications in 2023. This is the second year the "Best Rising Stars of Science in the World" ranking has been published. The ranking includes a list of the top 1,000 scientists from all major research fields, in which statistics only consider those who have published their first publication in the last 12 years.

Among the 7 scientists working in Vietnam, 5 are Vietnamese and 2 are foreigners, including: Prof. Dr. Tran Xuan Bach (Hanoi Medical University, ranked 2nd in the world); Dr. Tran Nguyen Hai (Duy Tan University, ranked 603), Dr. Thai Hoang Chien (Ton Duc Thang University, ranked 621), Dr. Phung Van Phuc (Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, ranked 762) and Dr. Hoang Nhat Duc (Duy Tan University, ranked 968).

*Scientists working in Vietnam are on the list. Screenshot*

According to the list, Prof. Dr. Tran Xuan Bach, Hanoi Medical University, is the only Vietnamese scientist in the top 10 scientists (ranked 2nd, up one place compared to 2022), in the field of Community Medicine. In 2016, Tran Xuan Bach became the youngest Associate Professor in Vietnam at the age of 32. In 2015, he was awarded the International Clinical and Prevention Research Award by the AIDS Research Center, Johns Hopkins University (USA). He received the Noam Chomsky Award - Award for Achievement in Research 2020. Associate Professor Dr. Tran Xuan Bach meets the criteria for recognition as a professor in medicine and is one of the 3 youngest people to be recognized as a professor this year. He is also a scientist in the top 1% of Clarivate's most cited scientists in 2023.

*Prof. Dr. Tran Xuan Bach. Photo: Character's Facebook*

Dr. Phung Van Phuc, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, is a Vietnamese scientist familiar in world rankings. He has been on the list of the world's 100,000 most influential scientists for 5 consecutive years, and has been awarded the "Rising Star" badge for two consecutive years - a rising star of science in 2022 and 2023. Dr. Phuc has published more than 60 scientific works in international journals in the ISI list with research in the fields of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace.

Dr. Hoang Nhat Duc, Duy Tan University, has published more than 140 works and articles in domestic and foreign journals, many of which are in the ISI list. Dr. Duc has been on the list of the world's top 10,000 scientists in 2021 and 2022 for many years. Dr. Thai Hoang Chien, Ton Duc Thang University, is one of the faces that consistently appears on the list of the world's top 100,000 scientists. He is a member of the Computational Mechanics (DCM) research group, one of the first research groups at Ton Duc Thang University. Dr. Chien has published nearly 100 research works, many of which are in ISI journals.

*Dr. Thai Hoang Chien. Photo: Ton Duc Thang University*

Dr. Tran Nguyen Hai, Deputy Director of the Institute for Fundamental and Applied Science Research (IFAS), Duy Tan University. For 4 consecutive years, Dr. Hai has been recognized in the list of the world's top 100,000 scientists, with many scientific articles published in prestigious international journals with high citation indexes. The number of Q1-ranked articles of Dr. Hai in the field of Environmental Science according to WoS accounts for over 70% and the citation index is more than 8,500 times (according to the Google Scholar database). He is one of 10 young talents awarded the Golden Globe for Science and Technology in 2019. He is currently a member of the Editorial Board for 12 ISI-standard international journals and participates in reviewing for more than 100 prestigious international journals.

*Dr. Tran Nguyen Hai, member of the Editorial Board for 12 ISI-standard international journals, is a new face on the 2023 list. Photo: Hai Tran*

Compared to 2022, this list has 2 more Vietnamese scientists and 3 new faces (including Dr. Tran Nguyen Hai, Dr. Thai Hoang Chien and Dr. Hoang Nhat Duc). There are two foreign scientists including Hossein Moayedi (Duy Tan University, ranked 306); Mohammad Ghalambaz (Ton Duc Thang University, ranked 337).

China is the country with the most scientists (353), followed by the US (171), and other countries such as Iran (51), the UK (40), Australia (48), Germany (27), Singapore (26), and South Korea (15). The leader of the ranking is Mohsen Sheikholeslami (Iran). The top 10 scientists come from the following countries: China (5), the US, Vietnam, Italy, Iran, and Pakistan (1).

The criteria for a scientist to be evaluated in the global rankings are based on the General H-index (an evaluation index based on scientific articles and citation values across all disciplines), the contribution rate in a certain field, in addition to their awards and achievements.

For this ranking, Research.com looked at data from 166,880 scientists, with the world's top publication and citation productivity, using data from Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph. Only the top 1,000 scientists with the highest H-index were included in the ranking. Research.com said that the ranking position is not an absolute measure to quantify the contributions of scientists. They cross-referenced and verified each scientist through a number of other criteria such as the number of publications in major journals, conference proceedings to consider their impact in certain specialties.

Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) was a free service that worked similarly to paid platforms such as Scopus, Dimensions, and Web of Science, but was discontinued at the end of 2021. Research.com believes that MAG remains one of the most prominent and robust databases available to the scientific community for conducting research and building scientific tools.

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