Ms. Xuan is working at a political school, she asked, if she has from 1 article published in an educational journal that is scored by the State Council of Professors from 0.25 to 0.5, can she determine whether the requirements as specified above are met?

In this regard, the Ministry of the Internal Affairs responded as follows:

Point b, Clause 1, Article 13 of Decree No. 140/2017/ND-CP stipulating that young scientists with master's degrees, resident doctors, and specialty pharmacists of level I apart from the regulations shall be classified at the good or excellent performance for 3 consecutive years from the date of recruitment decision, must have at least one scientific project published in prestigious specialized scientific journals in the country or region or internationally.

According to the provisions of Article 2 of Circular No. 37/2014/TT-BKHCN dated 12/12/2014 of the Ministry of Science and Technology regulating the management of basic research projects funded by the National Fund for Science and Technology Development sponsored, "reputable international journal, prestigious ISI magazine" is explained as follows:

a) Prestigious international journal:

- For the field of natural sciences and engineering, prestigious international journals are scientific journals selected from the list of SCI (Science Citation Index) and SCIE (Science Citation Index Expanded) of the International Institute of Scientific Information (USA), shall be decided by the Management Council of the National Science and Technology Development Fund on the basis of the advice of the Sectoral Scientific Councils.

- For the fields of social sciences and humanities, prestigious international journals are those in the following categories:

+ List of AHCI (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) or SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) of the International Institute of Scientific Information (USA);

+ Scientific journals in the field of social sciences and humanities in Elsevier's Scopus database;

+ International scientific journals in the field of social sciences and humanities are decided by the Management Council of the National Science and Technology Development Fund on the basis of recommendations of the scientific and interdisciplinary councils.

b) Prestigious ISI magazine:

- For the field of natural sciences and engineering, ISI journals have the reputation of being the top-quality scientific journals of the fields of the field, selected from prestigious international journals, shall be decided by the Management Council of the National Science and Technology Development Fund on the basis of the advice of the Sectoral Scientific Councils.

- For the field of humanities and social sciences, prestigious ISI journals are journals that belong to the categories AHCI (Arts and Humanities Citation Index) or SSCI (Social Science Citation Index) of the National Institute of Science Information. economy (USA).

For prestigious specialized scientific journals in the country, which are currently approved and based on the following regulations:

- Scientific journals are decided by the Management Council of the National Fund for Science and Technology Development on the basis of recommendations of the scientific and interdisciplinary councils as prescribed in Clause 5, Article 2 of Circular No. 37/ 2014/TT-BKHCN.

- List of peer-reviewed scientific journals approved by the State Council of Professors every year, currently it is the Decision No. 26/QD-HDGSNN dated November 8, 2021 of the State Council of Professors approving the list of scientific journals to be scored in 2021. In which, regulations on majors and lists of educational journals are scored by the Council of Professors of Education.

Therefore, in order to determine whether the article meets the requirements specified at Point b, Clause 1, Article 13 of Decree No. 140/2017/ND-CP, Ms. Pham Thi Ngan Xuan should compare her article and the journal that published the article with the majors and the list of approved journals in Decision No. 26/QD-HDGSNN dated November 8, 2021 and prestigious international magazine, prestigious ISI magazine specified in Circular No. 37/2014/TT-BKHCN.