Bibliographic and content analysis of articles on education from Vietnam indexed in Scopus from 2009 to 2018

Abstract

Purpose: This study aimed to analyze the bibliographic characteristics and content of articles on education published in Scopus-indexed journals by authors with Vietnamese affiliations from 2009 to 2018.Methods: Scopus was searched on July 6, 2019 using the search option “affiliation country,” with “Vietnam OR Viet Nam” as the country name, and “subject area” as “social sciences AND education.”Results: A total of 193 articles were identified. They were classified by publication year, co-authors’ country, affiliation, subarea, journal, and author. Content analysis of these articles demonstrated that the number of publications on education from Vietnam in Scopus increased rapidly during the last 10 years. The top five countries of co-authors were Australia, the USA, New Zealand, the UK, and the Netherlands. The main research subfields were English-language teaching, pedagogy, and educational management.Conclusion: Although Vietnamese education researchers collaborated with colleagues in developed countries to publish papers, there was still a lack of articles discussing global trends in education, such as cross-border education, equity in education, and international assessment programs.

Factors impacting international‐indexed publishing among Vietnamese educational researchers

“…In Vietnam, the output of educational sciences, as akin to other disciplines in social sciences and humanities, is weaker than STEM disciplines (Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran, & Nguyen, 2020;. For instance, Ho (2015), using data from Scopus between 1996 and 2013, revealed that the 10 disciplines in Vietnam with the highest number of publications are all STEM: (1) agriculture and biological sciences; (2) medicines; (3) mathematics;…”

“…In Vietnam, the output of educational sciences, as akin to other disciplines in social sciences and humanities, is weaker than STEM disciplines (Nguyen, Nguyen, Tran, & Nguyen, 2020; Vuong & Tran, 2019). For instance, Ho (2015), using data from Scopus between 1996 and 2013, revealed that the 10 disciplines in Vietnam with the highest number of publications are all STEM: (1) agriculture and biological sciences; (2) medicines; (3) mathematics; (4) physics and astronomy; (5) engineering; (6) biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology; (7) chemistry; (8) materials science; (9) immunology and microbiology and (10) environmental science.…”

Professional development for science teachers: A bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2021

“…Of all the research methods of analyzing scientific publications, bibliometric analysis methods are the most well-regarded thanks to its effectiveness and popularity among the scientific community (Bar-Ilan, 2008;Hallinger et al, 2016). This approach has been increasingly employed in research reviews in a wide range of areas including operations research and management science (Merigó & Yang, 2017); economics (Bonilla et al, 2015), safety culture (Van Nunen et al, 2018), human resources training (Danvila-del-Valle et al, 2019), computers & industrial engineering (Cancino et al, 2017), especially education (Cao et al, 2020;Do et al, 2021;Nguyen et al, 2020;D. B. Pham et al, 2020).…”

“…This research study utilized one of the world's most popular databases currently, the Scopus database, similar to a number of previous studies including Pham et al (2021b), Nguyen et al (2020), Phan et al (2022). Created by the reputable Elsevier Co, Scopus database possesses uniqueness in characteristics with more than 14,000 indexed journals belonging to a variety of domains (Mohamed et al, 2020).…”

Citations in Scientific Journals in Vietnam: An Analysis from the Field of Educational Science

“…Therefore, it is extremely necessary to propose a criteria and measures for domestic scientific journals to access international publishing standards as well as improve the capacity of Vietnamese researchers. In a number of studies related to improving the quality of international publications of scientists in Vietnam, the issue of improving the capacity of ranking research journals appeared in the works of Chung et al(2019), Cuong, Loc, Trung, & Trung (2020), Ho et al (2019) Hoang et al (2020), Hung (2016), Nguyen et al (2020), Trang et al (2020), Trung, Linh, Phuong, Toan, & Hoang (2020). Most authors have confirmed the trend of increasing the quantity and quality of research in general and research in the field of educational science in Vietnam.…”