On September 1, 2023, the Research.com portal announced the ranking results of world scientists with excellent achievements in scientific publications in 2023. Two VNU-HUS's scientists continued to be named in the world ranking of Reseach.com in the field of Environmental Sciences, namely: Prof.Dr. Pham Hung Viet & Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tu Binh Minh.
In 2023, four VNU’s scientists continued to be named in the world ranking of Reseach.com and led Vietnam in 3 fields, namely: Prof.Dr.Sc Nguyen Dinh Duc - Engineering and Technology, Prof.Dr. Pham Hung Viet & Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tu Binh Minh - Environmental Sciences, and Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Hoang Son – Computer Science.
The ranking method applied by Research.com (Collect published data and citations of scientists and rank scientists in the list of the world's top published and cited scientists in the ranked fields), is based on D-index (Discipline H-index) and the number of articles by field of scientists on the IEEE, ACL, Springer, AAAI, USENIX, Elsevier, ACM and LIPIcs database systems. In this ranking, Research.com analyzed the data of 166,880 scientists with the world's leading publication and citation productivity.
Research.com ranks 24 areas, namely: Animal Science and Veterinary; Biology and Biochemistry; Business and Management; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth Science; Ecology and Evolution; Economics and Finance; Electronics and Electrical Engineering; Engineering and Technology; Environmental Sciences; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Immunology; Law and Political Science; Mathematics; Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Medicine; Microbiology and Neuroscience.
The fourteen Vietnamese scientists (an increase of 3 compared to last year) featured in the ranking specialize in the following six areas: Engineering and Technology, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Materials Science, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Medicine and social sciences.
Interestingly, the recently ranked Vietnamese scientists are all currently leaders of strong research groups at universities, among which, VNU is the leading institution with scientists ranked worldwide in 3 fields: Engineering and Technology, Environmental Sciences, and Computer Science.