(Top to bottom, left to right) Nguyen Dinh Duc, Pham Hung Viet, Tu Binh Minh and Le Hoang Son. (Photo:tienphong.vn)

Four of them are from Vietnam National University, Hanoi – Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dinh Duc in the category of engineering and technology; Prof. Dr. Pham Hung Viet and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tu Binh Minh in environmental science; and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Le Hoang Son in computer science.

The others come from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ton Duc Thang University; Duy Tan University, Van Lang University, Phenikaa University, and Hanoi University of Public Health, and Hanoi Medical University.

This ranking of best scientists in the world was based on a detailed evaluation of 166,880 profiles on Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Graph, and was divided into 24 disciplines.

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