The number of publications penned by Vietnamese authors published on international indexed databases such as ISI Clarivate WOS and Scopus increased from 11,000 in 2016 to 32,400 in 2020, mainly from higher education. 

The number of publications penned by Vietnamese authors published
on ISI Clarivate WOS or Scopus during 2016-2020 period. 

According to the Department of higher education, under the Ministry of Education and Training, more than 97,700 scientific publications were published on ISI Clarivate WOS or Scopus, including 39,400 on ISI and 58,400 on Scopus. 

The number of publications on ISI in 2020 nearly doubled compared to 2016, which were mainly contributed by higher education establishments with 7,500 ones, accounting for 69.1 percent. 

Meanwhile, the number of articles wholly written by Vietnamese authors published on Scopus in 2020 increased by 3.7 times compared to 2016 with 5,800 publications, with the proportion of articles sent from universities making up 92.4 percent.