TY - JOUR
T1 - Top economics universities and research institutions in Vietnam
T2 - evidence from the SSHPA dataset
AU - Vuong, Quan Hoang
AU - Bui, Anh Tuan
AU - Ho, Manh Toan
AU - Pham, Thanh Hang
AU - Vu, Thi Hanh
AU - Pham, Hung Hiep
AU - Hoang, Anh Duc
AU - Ho, Manh Tung
AU - La, Viet Phuong
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (502.01-2018.19).
Funding Information:
Along with economic development, economic research is vital for undertaking more suitable economic policies so as to boost a stable and non-inflationary growth and help cope with various risks under a dynamic and rapid integration of an economy ( Fullani, 2007 ). Therefore, parallel with the country's economic advancement is the significant development of economic researchers in the Vietnamese social sciences community. Recent findings from Vuong et al. (2020a, b, c, d) indicated that economics has been the leading discipline among various areas in Vietnamese Social Sciences for the 2008–2018 period. In particular, within the 2011–2017 period, around 384 Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) projects were funded by the Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (NAFOSTED). Amongst these, around 24% of the projects belonged to the Economics discipline (95/384) ( Nafosted, 2018 ).
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PY - 2021/2
Y1 - 2021/2
N2 - Economic research is vital for creating more suitable policies to facilitate economic growth. Employing a combination of descriptive and Bayesian analyses, this paper investigates the research landscape of the economics discipline in Vietnam, in particular, the leading affiliations in the field and how these institutions compare to each other in terms of productivity, the number of lead authors, new authors and publications' journal impact factor. We also examine the differences in the authors' productivity based on their age and gender. The dataset extracted from the SSHPA database includes 1,444 articles. The findings show that among top producers of economic research in Vietnam, seven are universities, leaving only one representative of research institutes. These top producers account for 52% of research output among 178 institutes recorded in the database. We also find a correlation between a researcher's affiliation, sex, and scientific productivity in Vietnam's economic discipline. Overall, publications by male researchers outnumber those by female ones in most of the top affiliations. The findings also indicate that 40–44 is the age group with the highest scientific productivity. Researchers' collaboration, which is observed through co-authorship, is on the rise in all of the top eight economic research affiliations. However, the quality of current Vietnam's scientific works in the discipline is questionable. Therefore, it is suggested that in order to sustain scientific productivity, economic researchers might need to balance the quantity and quality of their contributions.Scientific collaboration; scientific publishing; economics discipline; Vietnam; Bayesian analysis.
AB - Economic research is vital for creating more suitable policies to facilitate economic growth. Employing a combination of descriptive and Bayesian analyses, this paper investigates the research landscape of the economics discipline in Vietnam, in particular, the leading affiliations in the field and how these institutions compare to each other in terms of productivity, the number of lead authors, new authors and publications' journal impact factor. We also examine the differences in the authors' productivity based on their age and gender. The dataset extracted from the SSHPA database includes 1,444 articles. The findings show that among top producers of economic research in Vietnam, seven are universities, leaving only one representative of research institutes. These top producers account for 52% of research output among 178 institutes recorded in the database. We also find a correlation between a researcher's affiliation, sex, and scientific productivity in Vietnam's economic discipline. Overall, publications by male researchers outnumber those by female ones in most of the top affiliations. The findings also indicate that 40–44 is the age group with the highest scientific productivity. Researchers' collaboration, which is observed through co-authorship, is on the rise in all of the top eight economic research affiliations. However, the quality of current Vietnam's scientific works in the discipline is questionable. Therefore, it is suggested that in order to sustain scientific productivity, economic researchers might need to balance the quantity and quality of their contributions.Scientific collaboration; scientific publishing; economics discipline; Vietnam; Bayesian analysis.
KW - Bayesian analysis
KW - Economics discipline
KW - Scientific collaboration
KW - Scientific publishing
KW - Vietnam
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U2 - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06273
DO - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06273
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85100871562
VL - 7
JO - Heliyon
JF - Heliyon
SN - 2405-8440
IS - 2
M1 - e06273
ER -