Some bibliometric data on S&T output of Vietnam from Web of Science Cao Minh Kiem, M.Sc National Agency for S&T Information (NASATI), Vietnam

Background information  Bibliometrics is one of measures to evaluate the productivity of S&T activities  Bibliometrics is a type of S&T statistical indicators (Okubo, Y. (1997). OECD manual on bibliometrics)  Vietnam S&T community has been interested in the numbers of Vietnamese S&T articles published in international journals for many years  Because of shortage of information resources, the research on the Vietnamese S&T output published in international journals started about ten years ago:  Phạm Duy Hiển (2007). Diện mạo khoa học Việt nam qua những công bố quốc tế (Vietnam’s S&T image through the number of international publications by Vietnamese). Tia sáng, 2007, no.11, pp  Nguyễn Văn Tuấn (2008). Nhìn lại hoạt động khoa học ở Việt Nam qua các ấn phẩm khoa học quốc tế. (A look at Vietnamese S&T activities through international journals articles) TC Hoạt động khoa học, 2008, số 1, tr ,35.  Cao Minh Kiem (2011). Vietnamese S&T publications during period TC Hoat dong khoa hoc, no.2/2011.

Bibliometrics is included in national S&T statistical indicators system  NASATI developed the National S&T statistical indicators system.  The system is approved by MOST in 2015 (Circular No. 14/2015/TT-BKHCN dated 19 August 2015)  Bibliometrics indicators:  08. S&T publications  0801 – Number of S&T articles published in S&T journals (domestic and international)  Number of S&T monographs published  0803 – Citations of Vietnamese S&T journals articles  Data sources:  Database on Vietnamese S&T documents published in Vietnam  Web of Science for articles published in international journals  Data are published in book “Vietnam’s Science and Technology”

Vietnamese S&T publications from WoS

Articles by Vietnamese authors only Publication YearsNumber of records About 70-80% papers are produced with international cooperations

Data from Scopus Documents % International Collaboration % Region% World 20112, , , , Sources:

Vietnamese publications by subjects

International comparision

Problems of data analysis  We have no facilities/tools to do more in dept analysis  Have no tool for data normalization:  Author affiliations are experessed in different forms:  Author names are difficult to be recognized by Vietnamese VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY1535 VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI 1015 VIETNAM NATL UNIV 57 VNU UNIV SCI 64 UNIV SCI 130

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