Top economics universities and research institutions in Vietnam: evidence from the SSHPA dataset.

ABSTRACT: Economic research is vital for creating more suitable policies to facilitate economic growth. Employing a combination of descriptive and Bayesian analyses, this paper investigates the research landscape of the economics discipline in Vietnam, in particular, the leading affiliations in the field and how these institutions compare to each other in terms of productivity, the number of lead authors, new authors and publications' journal impact factor. We also examine the differences in the authors' productivity based on their age and gender. The dataset extracted from the SSHPA database includes 1,444 articles. The findings show that among top producers of economic research in Vietnam, seven are universities, leaving only one representative of research institutes. These top producers account f

SUBMITTER: Vuong QH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7903316 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature