Korea vs Viet Nam: Bibliometric indicators: Fractional counts of scientific publications
Bibliometric indicators: Fractional counts of scientific publications over time
- Korea
- Viet Nam
How they compare
Korea currently reports 4,380 Scientific publications against 857.17 Scientific publications in Viet Nam, a difference of 3,523 Scientific publications.
That makes Korea's figure about 5.1 times Viet Nam's.
Across all 10 years both countries report, Korea has been ahead every year.
Korea ranks 3rd and Viet Nam ranks 3rd of 12 groups.
Korea has averaged higher in every one of the 2 decades both report.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | Korea | Viet Nam | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 2,962 Scientific publications | 286.56 Scientific publications | 2,675 Scientific publications | Korea |
| 2020s | 3,967 Scientific publications | 702.63 Scientific publications | 3,265 Scientific publications | Korea |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs), Korea or Viet Nam?
- Korea, at 4,380 Scientific publications against 857.17 Scientific publications in Viet Nam as of 2024.
- What is the difference in bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs) between Korea and Viet Nam?
- 3,523 Scientific publications, with Korea ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for Korea and Viet Nam?
- 10 years are reported by both, from 2015 to 2024.
- How do Korea and Viet Nam rank globally for bibliometric indicators, by sustainable development goals (sdgs)?
- Korea ranks 3rd and Viet Nam ranks 3rd of 12 groups.
- Where does this data come from?
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Bibliometric indicators, by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — Fractional counts of scientific publications. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
This dataset presents trends in the total number of scientific publications relevant to societal goals, as proxied by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework, expressed in fractional counts, for the 2015–2024 period. Coverage includes OECD member and accession countries, key partners (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and South Africa), and other selected non-OECD economies. This is an experimental indicator, developed under the OECD’s Fundstat initiative to improve evidence on the directionality and societal relevance of research and development (R&D) activities, by linking scientific output to 17 SDGs or none. To produce this indicator, the OECD developed a probabilistic AI-assisted classification model that identifies the SDG relevance of scientific publications based on their titles and abstracts. The approach builds on insights from the OECD International Survey of Science (ISSA2021), in which researchers reported which SDG their research contributed to. Using these responses, a labelled dataset was created to fine-tune SciBERT, a large language model (LLM) pre-trained on scientific literature, enabling it to predict the probability of relevance of a given text to each of the 17 SDGs, or to none. The trained classifier is then applied to publication titles and abstracts from the Scopus Custom Data. Publication counts are fractionalised across countries and aggregated annually for comparability. For further information on the methodology, see: Aristodemou, L., et al. (2025), “Assessing the direction of R&D funding towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a new classifier and the OECD Fundstat infrastructure”, OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers. Source: OECD Bibliometric Indicators, calculations based on Elsevier's Scopus Custom Data, Elsevier, Version 1.2026. Please cite as: OECD (2026), OECD Bibliometric indicators, OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Statistics, http://oe.cd/scientometrics, accessed on xx/xx/xxxx.