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Research in Ho Chi Minh City

Science Explorer records 3 research institutions in Ho Chi Minh City. The highest-ranked on research quality in 2022-now are HUTECH University and Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance.

Research institutions
3
2 of them ranked worldwide
Research works
1.6k
▲ 105% vs 2018-21
Citations
17k
10.9 per fractional work, all time
Top-10% rate, 2022-now
21.7%
all institutions 10.0%
Active span
1970-2026
57 years on the record
Ho Chi Minh City

A city carries no overall standing here. The quality score is built for institutions and countries, the units its floors and field normalisation were designed around. An empty rank on this page is a statement about the measure, not about the place.

Which research institutions are in Ho Chi Minh City?

#InstitutionWorksAgainst the largest hereWorld rank
1HUTECH UniversityUniversity 595 #3,621
2Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and FinanceUniversity 184 #16,425
3Thu Duc City HospitalHospital / health system 28 not ranked

By fractional works over the whole record; world rank on research quality in 2022-now. Bars are scaled to the largest institution in this city, not to anything off the page.

Which fields of science does Ho Chi Minh City work in?

In 2022-now, 50% of research in Ho Chi Minh City is in Physical Sciences, 42% in Social Sciences. Its largest fields are Engineering (17%), Environmental Science (16%), Business, Management and Accounting (14%). It does 1.7× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Physical Sciences: 471 fractional works · 49.6% of its workEngineering: 160 fractional works · 16.8% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 33 fractional works · 3.4% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 20 fractional works · 2.1% of its workMechanics of Materials: 17 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAutomotive Engineering: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBuilding and Construction: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workComputational Mechanics: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAerospace Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMedia Technology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety, Risk, Reliability and Quality: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 148 fractional works · 15.6% of its workEcology: 107 fractional works · 11.3% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workWater Science and Technology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Engineering: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPollution: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEcological Modeling: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workComputer Science: 94 fractional works · 9.9% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 31 fractional works · 3.3% of its workInformation Systems: 24 fractional works · 2.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSignal Processing: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputer Science Applications: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Science: 22 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 16 fractional works · 1.7% of its workBiomaterials: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEnergy: 14 fractional works · 1.5% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workApplied Mathematics: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMathematical Physics: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workAtmospheric Science: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workChemical Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workFluid Flow and Transfer Processes: 3 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workChemistry: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 400 fractional works · 42.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 128 fractional works · 13.5% of its workStrategy and Management: 42 fractional works · 4.4% of its workAccounting: 32 fractional works · 3.4% of its workMarketing: 22 fractional works · 2.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness and International Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 125 fractional works · 13.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 49 fractional works · 5.2% of its workEducation: 23 fractional works · 2.4% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 16 fractional works · 1.7% of its workLaw: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workTransportation: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCommunication: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workGender Studies: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 79 fractional works · 8.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 52 fractional works · 5.5% of its workFinance: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 13 fractional works · 1.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 25 fractional works · 2.7% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 12 fractional works · 1.2% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workConservation: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workDecision Sciences: 23 fractional works · 2.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 12 fractional works · 1.3% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 9 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workSocial Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 6 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 44 fractional works · 4.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 27 fractional works · 2.9% of its workPlant Science: 11 fractional works · 1.2% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 5 fractional works · 0.6% of its workFood Science: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 36 fractional works · 3.8% of its workMedicine: 29 fractional works · 3.0% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEpidemiology: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 20 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHealth Professions: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 1 fractional works · 0.2% of its workVeterinary: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workALL ITS WORKHo Chi Minh City950fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences50%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences42%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this city does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 26 fields, with their numbers
    1. Engineering16016.8%
    2. Environmental Science14815.6%
    3. Computer Science949.9%
    4. Materials Science222.3%
    5. Energy141.5%
    6. Mathematics131.4%
    7. Physics and Astronomy70.7%
    8. Earth and Planetary Sciences50.6%
    9. Chemical Engineering40.4%
    10. Chemistry30.3%
    1. Business, Management and Accounting12813.5%
    2. Social Sciences12513.1%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance798.3%
    4. Arts and Humanities252.7%
    5. Decision Sciences232.4%
    6. Psychology192.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences272.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology111.1%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology20.2%
    4. Neuroscience20.2%
    5. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics20.2%
    1. Medicine293.0%
    2. Health Professions50.5%
    3. Nursing10.2%
    4. Veterinary10.1%
    5. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What is Ho Chi Minh City strongest at in research?

Relative to its size, research in Ho Chi Minh City is most concentrated in Ecology, Accounting and Strategy and Management (15.2× the world share in Ecology).

  1. EcologySubfield · 100.0 works15×
  2. AccountingSubfield · 28.9 works5.7×
  3. Strategy and ManagementSubfield · 34.0 works4.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient against the world baseline. Inside a single field a city is a meaningful unit, which is why this is where a city is measured at all.

The whole field profile

All 26 fields at once: above the ring is more than a place this size would be expected to do. A specialist and a generalist produce the same ranked list and a completely different shape.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.60× its world share, 24 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.22× its world share, 10 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.26× its world share, 2 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.10× its world share, 1 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.62× its world share, 2 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.33× its world share, 4 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.22× its world share, 3 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.21× its world share, 79 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.37× its world share, 5 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 1.82× its world share, 14 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.12× its world share, 140 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 3.29× its world share, 137 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.72× its world share, 21 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 1.19× its world share, 12 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.30× its world share, 6 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.03× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.20× its world share, 4 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 25 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 0.70× its world share, 1 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.94× its world share, 23 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 4.07× its world share, 110 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 2.41× its world share, 20 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 4.14× its world share, 74 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.67× its world share, 17 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.97× its world share, 103 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Economics, Econometrics and Finance, 4.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 26 fields, with their numbers
  1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance4.14×74 works
  2. Business, Management and Accounting4.07×110 works
  3. Environmental Science3.29×137 works
  4. Decision Sciences2.41×20 works
  5. Energy1.82×14 works
  6. Chemical Engineering1.33×4 works
  7. Computer Science1.21×79 works
  8. Mathematics1.19×12 works
  9. Engineering1.12×140 works
  10. Social Sciences0.97×103 works
  11. Arts and Humanities0.94×23 works
  12. Materials Science0.72×21 works
  13. Veterinary0.70×1 works
  14. Psychology0.67×17 works
  15. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics0.62×2 works
  16. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×24 works
  17. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.37×5 works
  18. Physics and Astronomy0.30×6 works
  19. Nursing0.28×1 works
  20. Immunology and Microbiology0.26×2 works
  21. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.22×10 works
  22. Chemistry0.22×3 works
  23. Health Professions0.20×4 works
  24. Medicine0.16×25 works
  25. Neuroscience0.10×1 works
  26. Dentistry0.03×0 works

Which keywords describe research in Ho Chi Minh City?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Risk Assessment, Fuzzy Mathematics, Set Pair Analysis, Economic Growth, Corporate Governance, Infrastructure, Innovation and Environmental Impact.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this city's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Risk Assessment108▲ 17×8 topics
  2. Fuzzy Mathematics105▲ 528×1 topic
  3. Set Pair Analysis105▲ 528×1 topic
  4. Machine Learning38▲ 1.20×58 topics
  5. Economic Growth38▲ 4.9×28 topics
  6. Deep Learning36◆ 1.11×71 topics
  7. Environmental Impact33▲ 2.1×38 topics
  8. Corporate Governance32▲ 4.6×18 topics
  9. Sustainable Development32▲ 2.1×44 topics
  10. Sustainability29▲ 1.24×55 topics
  11. Innovation29▲ 2.9×35 topics
  12. Globalization29▲ 1.53×39 topics
  13. Renewable Energy28▲ 2.0×34 topics
  14. Economic Development24▲ 3.1×26 topics
  15. Financial Performance21▲ 3.9×9 topics
  16. Infrastructure21▲ 18×3 topics
  17. Environmental Management20▲ 5.2×10 topics
  18. Consumer Behavior19▲ 3.3×15 topics
  19. Social Capital19▲ 3.9×12 topics
  20. Risk Management16▲ 3.6×11 topics
  21. Human Capital15▲ 10×8 topics
  22. Monitoring15▲ 17×3 topics
  23. Laser Scanning14▲ 71×2 topics
  24. Geodetic14▲ 186×1 topic
  25. Leveling14▲ 186×1 topic
  26. Regional Development14▲ 4.2×13 topics
  27. Society13▲ 7.3×2 topics
  28. Firm Performance13▲ 7.8×4 topics
  29. Financial Constraints13▲ 13×2 topics
  30. Vietnam13▲ 34×2 topics
  31. Politics13▲ 5.2×3 topics
  32. Economy13▲ 18×2 topics
  33. Language Teaching12▲ 4.9×3 topics
  34. Monetary Policy12▲ 5.6×6 topics
  35. Finance12▲ 6.7×2 topics
  36. Capital Structure11▲ 7.9×2 topics
  37. Investor Protection11▲ 15×1 topic
  38. Ownership Structure11▲ 15×1 topic
  39. Second Language Acquisition11▲ 12×2 topics
  40. Pandemic Impact10▲ 14×2 topics

What research is done in Ho Chi Minh City?

Research studies in Viet…98Research studies in Vietnam: 98 fractional worksVietnamese History and Culture Studies: 10 fractional worksCorporate Finance and Governance: 10 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 9 fractional worksGeodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures: 8 fractional worksComposite Structure Analysis and Optimization: 8 fractional worksTechnology Adoption and User Behaviour: 8 fractional worksSecond Language Learning and Teaching: 7 fractional worksDigital Marketing and Social Media: 7 fractional worksImpulse Buying and Technology Impacts: 7 fractional works
EcologySociology and Political ScienceAccountingLanguage and Linguistics5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Research studies in Vietnam Ecology 98 works
  2. 2 Vietnamese History and Culture Studies Sociology and Political Science 10 works
  3. 3 Corporate Finance and Governance Accounting 10 works
  4. 4 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 9 works
  5. 5 Geodetic Measurements and Engineering Structures Civil and Structural Engineering 8 works
  6. 6 Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization Mechanics of Materials 8 works
  7. 7 Technology Adoption and User Behaviour Information Systems and Management 8 works
  8. 8 Second Language Learning and Teaching Literature and Literary Theory 7 works
  9. 9 Digital Marketing and Social Media Sociology and Political Science 7 works
  10. 10 Impulse Buying and Technology Impacts Economics and Econometrics 7 works

Research output over time

still counting1990200020102020
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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%Ho Chi Minh City22.5% in 2025all institutions10.0% in 20252020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 32.0% in 2018.

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