VietNamNet Bridge – The National Fund for Science and
Technology Development will only consider giving sponsor to the scientific
research themes with internationally published scientific articles (ISI
articles). Scientists believe that this is unreasonable requirement.
Some years ago, the national fund
announced that in 2009-2012, it would prioritize to fund the scientific
research themes with ISI articles. Meanwhile, in the 2012-2015 period, ISI
articles are the compulsory requirement for researchers to be eligible for
applying for support.
The fund’s board of management
has affirmed that the new regulation should be seen as a necessary step for the
fund to integrate more deeply into the world. However, scientists have pointed
out that the requirement of two ISI articles for 2-year research work is “unreasonable”
and “unfair.”
Dr Le Huu Song from the 108
Central Military Hospital said that in the molecular biology or biomedical
fields, it is very difficult for everyone to have one article a year, and it is
even more difficult to have an ISI article.
Song said that it takes
scientists at least half a year to conduct experiments and one year or longer
to write report. Therefore, Song believes that it would be better to amend the
regulation.
Agreeing with Song, Dr Pham Hung
Viet from the Hanoi University of Natural Sciences said it is feasible for the
scientists at research institutes to have one scientific article a year, but it
would be without the reach of the scientists at universities, who have lecture
hours every day.
According to Viet, one internationally
published article should be considered a great success, while it is an overly
high requirement that one needs to have two ISI articles during two years to
receive the sponsor from the fund.
Dr Ngo Viet Trung from the
Vietnam Mathematics Institute has affirmed that it is very difficult to publish
mathematics articles. One should be considered a mathematician if he has one
scientific article for every two years. He also said that most of the
Vietnamese mathematicians now can make public one article internationally every
two years.
“The new regulation would keep
authentic scientists away from the playing field of the fund,” Trung said.
According to Do Tien Dung,
Managing Director of the National Fund for Science and Technology Development
(Nafosted), before the fund was established, 1000 scientific research themes in
natural sciences were made published within three years. However, only less
than 200 articles were internationally published.
Dr Trung from the mathematics
institute said that it is really wonderful to have ISI articles, but ISI
articles should not be considered as the only factor for the fund to refer to
when considering sponsoring scientific research works, because ISI articles
have different quality levels.
Also according to Trung, in the
field of mathematics, it is very easy to publish articles on some less
prestigious journals, if someone pays money and waits for a couple of weeks.
Therefore, it would be unfair if the fund only consider the number of articles
to be published to decide whether to give sponsor.
Trung has suggested that the
scientific articles published on domestic journals also should be considered,
if they have excellent quality.
“It would be better if the fund
supports the development of sciences and the scientist force, not simply pays
money for internationally published articles,” Trung said.
Thu Uyen
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