Associate Professors Trần Xuân Bách, Lê Hoàng Sơn, and Phùng Văn Phúc have been awarded the “Rising Star” badge, recognizing them as outstanding emerging scientists globally.
The website Research.com, a reputable portal for scientists worldwide, has just released the results of its ranking of scientists with exceptional achievements in scientific publications. This marks the first time the “Best Rising Stars of Science in the World” ranking has been published.
The ranking includes a list of 1,000 leading scientists from all major research fields, specifically focusing on those who have had their first publication in the last 13 years (from 2012 to the present). Among the five scientists working in Vietnam who made the list, three are Vietnamese and two are foreigners.
Notably, Associate Professor Trần Xuân Bách from Hanoi Medical University is the only Vietnamese scientist in the top 10, ranked 3rd in the field of Community Medicine. Trần Xuân Bách became Vietnam’s youngest associate professor at the age of 32 in 2016. He has over 300 articles published in international journals recognized for their contributions to global health science.
Associate Professor Trần Xuân Bách. (Photo: NVCC)
Associate Professor Lê Hoàng Sơn from Vietnam National University, Hanoi, ranks 190th in the field of Computer Science. He has published over 180 works and articles in ISI-indexed international journals. He has been listed among the top 10,000 outstanding scientists in the world for three consecutive years: 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Associate Professor Lê Hoàng Sơn. (Photo: Personal Facebook)
Associate Professor Phùng Văn Phúc from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology ranks 958th in the field of Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace. Professor Phúc is a familiar name in global rankings, having been included in the list of the 100,000 most influential scientists worldwide for four consecutive years.
Associate Professor Phùng Văn Phúc. Photo: NVCC
There are two foreign scientists from Ton Duc Thang University included: Mohammad Ghalambaz (ranked 571) and Hossein Moayedi (ranked 773).
In this ranking, China has the highest number of scientists (344), followed by the United States (209), with other countries such as Australia (41), Germany (38), South Korea (15), and Japan (4). The top-ranked scientist is Mohsen Sheikholeslami from Iran. The top 10 leading scientists come from the following countries: China (4), the United States (2), Vietnam, Singapore, Italy, and Iran (1 each).
Five scientists working in Vietnam included in the list. (Screenshot)
The ranking of a scientist is evaluated based on the General H-index (an index assessing based on scientific articles and citation values across all fields), their contribution ratio in specific fields, along with their awards and achievements.
For this ranking, Research.com analyzed data from 166,880 scientists with top publication and citation productivity worldwide. Only the top 1,000 scientists with the highest H-index were included in the ranking (the H-index used data from Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph). Research.com stated that they also cross-checked and validated each scientist through other criteria such as the number of articles in major journals and conference proceedings to assess their impact in specific fields.
