14 Vietnamese scientists named in world rankings by research.com

The website Research.com on September 1 announced its rankings of world scientists with excellent achievements in scientific publications in 2023, in which there are 14 Vietnamese.
14 Vietnamese scientists named in world rankings by research.com ảnh 1Scientists Nguyen Dinh Duc, Pham Hung Viet, Le Hoang Son and Tu Binh Minh (from left to right, from top to bottom) (Photo: laodong.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - The website Research.com on September 1 announced itsrankings of world scientists with excellent achievements in scientificpublications in 2023, in which there are 14 Vietnamese.

The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering discipline saw thepresence of five Nguyen Van Hung and Phung VanPhuc from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Thai Hoang Chien from theTon Duc Thang University, Nguyen Thoi Trung from the Van Lang University, and BuiQuoc Tinh from the Duy Tan University.

Meanwhile, Pham Hung Viet and Tu Binh Minh from the VietnamNational University, Hanoi (VNU-Hanoi), and Tran Nguyen Hai from the Duy TanUniversity were named among best scientists in the Environmental Sciencesdiscipline.

Hoang Van Minh from the Hanoi University was listed amongbest scientists in the Social Sciences and Humanities discipline, while TranXuan Bach from the Hanoi Medical University was named in the Medicine field.

The Computer Science saw the presence of Hoang Nhat Duc fromthe Duy Tan University and Le Hoang Son from the VNU-Hanoi, while Nguyen DinhDuc from the VNU-Hanoi, and Nguyen Van Hieu from Phenikaa Vietnam University werenamed in the Engineering and Technology, and Materials Science disciplines, respectively.

This ranking of best scientists in the world was based on adetailed evaluation of 166,880 profiles on Google Scholar and MicrosoftAcademic Graph, and was divided into 24 disciplines./.
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