Chapter 5 Researchers who lead the trends Xuan-Hung Doan,Phuong-Tram T. Nguyen, Viet-Phuong La, Hong-Kong T. Nguyen Chapter 5 delves deeper into the profiles of the researchers in our database. This chapter makes up the core of this book for its focus on the scholars who have contributed tirelessly to scientific research and international publications and, ultimately, have helped shape a more rigorous and better-quality academic environment for SSH in Vietnam. We would like to start the chapter with two impressive figures. • First, the 158 authors with the highest number of published articles in the ten years, or 11.4% all authors, accounted for 64.62% of the total output. • Second, even more astoundingly, 24.8% of the articles published in Scopus-indexed journals during the period were the works of 10 Vietnamese authors-who we would like to regard as the "most eminent researchers in SSH." The eminent researchers in SSH One of our measures for "eminence" is academic productivity, evaluated based on the number of published articles each year of a researcher. To grasp the extent of this productivity, we suggest looking at Figure 5.1 on the highest count of publications by a researcher in a year during the ten-year period, 2008-2018. In Figure 5.1, the y-axis denotes the highest number of articles published by a researcher that year, and the x-axis denotes the year. Accordingly, the all-time high achievement of a Vietnamese SSH author in a year is 34 articles, which has only happened in 2018. The year 2017 came in second with 22 articles. Details about these record-breaking individuals are summarized in Table 5.1. Authenticated | manhho212@gmail.com Download Date | 11/5/19 3:22 AM 119 Ding, Y. (2011). Scientific collaboration and endorsement: Network analysis of coauthorship and citation networks. Journal of Informetrics, 5(1), 187-203. Dwyer, T. (2009). Scalable, Versatile and Simple Constrained Graph Layout. Computer Graphics Forum, 28(3), 991-998. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01449.x Ho, M.-T., Nguyen, H.-K. T., Vuong, T.-T., & Vuong, Q.-H. (2017). On the Sustainability of Co-Authoring Behaviors in Vietnamese Social Sciences: A Preliminary Analysis of Network Data. Sustainability, 9(11). doi:10.3390/su9112142 Ho, M.-T., Nguyen, V.-H. T., Vuong, T.-T., Dam, Q.-M., Pham, H.H., & Vuong, Q.-H. (2017). Exploring Vietnamese coauthorship patterns in social sciences with basic network measures of 2008-2017 Scopus data. F1000Research, 6, 1559. La, V.P, & Vuong, Q.H. (2019). bayesvl: Visually Learning the Graphical Structure of Bayesian Networks and Performing MCMC with 'Stan'. The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN): <https://cran.rproject.org/web/packages/bayesvl/index.html>; version 0.8.5 (August 16, 2019). Moody, J. (2004). The structure of a social science collaboration network: Disciplinary cohesion from 1963 to 1999. American Sociological Review, 69(2), 213-238. Nabout, J. C., Parreira, M. R., Teresa, F. B., Carneiro, F. M., da Cunha, H. F., de Souza Ondei, L., . . . Soares, T. N. (2015). Publish (in a group) or perish (alone): the trend from singleto multi-authorship in biological papers. Scientometrics, 102(1), 357-364. doi:10.1007/s11192-0141385-5 Nature Editorial. (2007). Who is accountable? Nature, 450, 1. doi:10.1038/450001a Newman, M. E. (2001). Scientific collaboration networks. I. Network construction and fundamental results. Physical Review E, 64(1), 016131. Rath, K., & Wohlrabe, K. (2016). Recent trends in co-authorship in economics: evidence from RePEc. Applied Economics Letters, 23(12), 897-902. doi:10.1080/13504851.2015.1119783 Teixeira da Silva, J. A., & Dobránszki, J. (2016). Multiple authorship in scientific manuscripts: Ethical challenges, ghost and guest/gift authorship, and the Authenticated | manhho212@gmail.com Download Date | 11/5/19 3:22 AM 120 cultural/disciplinary perspective. Science and Engineering Ethics, 22(5), 1457-1472. doi:10.1007/s11948-015-9716-3 Vuong, Q.-H. (2018a). "How did researchers get it so wrong?" The acute problem of plagiarism in Vietnamese social sciences and humanities. European Science Editing, 44(3), 56-58. Vuong, Q.-H. (2018b). The (ir)rational consideration of the cost of science in transition economies. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(1), 5-5. doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0281-4 Vuong, Q.-H., Ho, M.-T., Vuong, T.-T., Napier, N. K., Pham, H.-H., & Nguyen, V.-H. T. (2017). Gender, age, research experience, leading role and academic productivity of Vietnamese researchers in the social sciences and humanities: exploring a 2008-2017 Scopus dataset. European Science Editing, 43(3), 51-55. Vuong, Q.H. & La V.P. (2019). BayesVL package for Bayesian statistical analyses in R. Github: <https://github.com/sshpa/bayesvl>; V0.8.4. Authenticated | manhho212@gmail.com Download Date | 11/5/19 3:22 AM