223 QS-eligible publications · 197 QS-counted citations · 62%% Q1 · 58%% international
What this report is. A single-year (AY 2025–2026) read of CHS research performance, organised around the QS World University Rankings framework. It focuses on the part of the ranking that scholarly output actually drives — the Research & Discovery lens (50% of the QS score) — and translates our publication database into QS-style indicators. Reputation surveys and headcount ratios are shown for context but sit outside this dataset.
QS ranks universities on nine indicators across four lenses. Half of the total score comes from research — exactly what a strong publication pipeline influences.
The Research & Discovery lens is 50% of the QS score: Academic Reputation (30%) + Citations per Faculty (20%). Our papers feed both — directly into Citations per Faculty, and indirectly into Academic Reputation as our work becomes visible and cited.
| Lens | Indicator | Weight | Does CHS output move it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research & Discovery (50%) | Academic Reputation | 30% | Indirectly — visibility & citation of CHS work |
| Citations per Faculty | 20% | Directly — this report’s core | |
| Employability & Outcomes (20%) | Employer Reputation | 15% | No (survey) |
| Employment Outcomes | 5% | No (graduate data) | |
| Global Engagement (15%) | International Research Network | 5% | Yes — international co-authorship |
| International Faculty | 5% | No (HR data) | |
| International Students | 5% | No (admissions data) | |
| Learning Experience (15%) | Faculty–Student Ratio | 10% | No (headcount) |
| Sustainability (5%) | Sustainability | 5% | Partly — SDG-aligned research |
Where this report says “QS-eligible”, it applies the document-type rule as a transparent proxy; full normalisation requires QS/Elsevier’s institutional faculty counts.
Total CHS output has compounded from a near-standing start to 283 publications in AY25-26 (the chart above shows full output by year). After applying the QS filters, 223 of these are QS-eligible — the count that actually feeds the ranking. Growth in both volume and quality is what the Citations-per-Faculty indicator rewards.
After applying all QS filters — only articles / reviews / conference papers, excluding papers with more than 45 authors, and excluding papers whose author count is unavailable (mega-author papers such as Lancet consortia, where Scopus does not return a count) — 223 of 283 AY25-26 publications are QS-eligible. The waterfall below shows exactly what each rule removes.
| QS-eligibility status | Publications | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| Included — QS-eligible | 223 | 197 |
| Excluded — document type | 30 | 3 |
| Excluded — >45 authors | 20 | 1,531 |
| Excluded — author count unavailable (too many authors) | 10 | 61 |
The sections below profile the 223 QS-eligible publications only.
QS weights its five faculty areas equally (20% each). CHS output concentrates in Life Sciences & Medicine — a strength, but also a reminder that QS normalisation rewards breadth.
International co-authorship feeds the QS International Research Network indicator (5%) and amplifies citations.
Searchable and sortable. This shows the 223 QS-eligible publications. The companion Excel file additionally includes every AY25-26 record with its QS-eligibility status (including the excluded papers).
Methodology & caveats. Source:
VinUni_Publication_DB.xlsx (sheets
chs_author_works, vinuni_work), records with
CHS_flag == 1 and AY == “AY25-26”,
de-duplicated to paper level by Scopus EID. Quartiles are SJR
best-quartile. “QS-eligible” applies QS’s document-type rule (article /
review / conference paper) as a transparent proxy; it does not
reproduce QS’s full faculty-area normalisation, affiliation cap, or
self-citation removal, which require QS/Elsevier institutional inputs.
Citation counts are point-in-time and will rise. International share is
derived from Scopus affiliation countries.
Prepared by the CHS Research Office · Data engineering: Nguyen Viet
Hoang (CHS-3DLAB).
QS methodology references:
QS
World University Rankings ·
Citations
per Faculty ·
QS
WUR (overview).