Table 2 SSHPA’s descriptive statistics on the productivity of Vietnamese researchers in SS&H from 2008 to 2018.

From: An open database of productivity in Vietnam's social sciences and humanities for public use

Variables

Min

Max

Mean

Median

SD

5 to 95 percentiles

last5year

0

34

2.164

1.00

3.564

(1.891, 2.437)

age

20

76

43.38

41.00

9.743

(42.588, 44.172)

au.solo

0

61

0.510

0.00

2.771

(0.298, 0.722)

au.vn

0

40

1.904

1.00

3.135

(1.664, 2.144)

au.fr

0

50

1.903

1.00

3.536

(1.632, 2.173)

ttlitems

1

67

3.212

1.00

5.276

(2.807, 3.616)

cp.sdc

0.1

65.2

2.013

1.00

4.090

(1.700, 2.327)

cp.eq

0.1

63.4

1.322

0.50

3.329

(1.066, 1.577)

cp.fl

0.1

67

2.297

1.00

4.420

(1.959, 2.636)

  1. The statistics in Table 2 can be used to derive some useful reports on the number of authors, foreign co-authors, published papers, research institutions, as well as calculations of distributions of publications over authors (groups of authors), institutions, publications solely by Vietnamese authors, most productive field of research, etc.