In July 2018, Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (Webometrics) published the university ranking by research capability, in which National Economic University is ranked among top 10 universities in Vietnam in this aspect. This result is based on the number of citations of scientific works in Google Scholar data using Google Scholar citation.
The ranking table of top 10 universities in Vietnam is as follows:
No.
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Name of the University
|
Openess Indicator
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1
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Vietnam National University
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16.996
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2
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Hanoi University of Science and Technology
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9.082
|
3
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Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
|
8.770
|
4
|
Can Tho University
|
7.159
|
5
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International Training Institute For Materials Science (Hanoi University of Science and Technology)
|
6.030
|
6
|
Da Nang University
|
5.335
|
7
|
RMIT Vietnam
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4.942
|
8
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University of Science - Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City
|
4.658
|
9
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National Economics University
|
4.625
|
10
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Vietnam National University of Agriculture
|
4.166
|
The world universities ranking of Webometrics was first published in 2004, since then the ranking is updated twice a year in January and July. The main objective of Webometrics is supporting the idea of Open Access Initiative, to improve access to information of scientific research and scholarly publications in electronic format. Webometrics provides the ranking of universities around the world based on the parameters of the institution's web site, which are a set of four criteria: Presence: The number of sublets hosted on the school system that can be identified by Google; Impact: The number of backlinks from other websites that return results to the school's website; Openness: The number of citations of scientific works on Google Scholar data source; Excellence: Top 10% of articles published on scientific journals by faculty members, researchers that have the highest number of citations in Scopus category.
Scientific research is one of the main tasks of universities. The number of scientific publications of an individual, university or institute can be fairly easily quantified, but judging their quality is not straightforward. Google Scholar allows the global academic community to operate on the basis of the Google Scholar system to evaluate fairly the quality of scientific research based on automatically calculated parameters in quotations, as well as the extent of influence of the publication. Via Google Scholar, researchers can introduce and disseminate their scientific research to the academic community at home and abroad.
Being in the top 10 universities that have strongest scientific research capability in Vietnam according to the rankings of Webometrics is an honored result for NEU. It also demonstrates the determination and efforts of leaders, lecturers and staffs of NEU in utilizing the web portal to publish researches, and integrating the websites of subsidiary units into one NEU portal system. This result also reflects the efforts of all of the academics and researchers at NEU, who signed up for Google Scholar account to publish their researches.
(Link: https://en.neu.edu.vn/vi/news/national-economics-university-is-ranked-among-top-10-universities-in-vietnam-in-terms-of-research-ability-according-to-webometrics)