The Vietnam SciMath Database Project is a product of the mathematical research history initiative led by Professor Ngo Bao Chau (Ngô Bảo Châu), a Vietnamese-French mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 2010. This particular project received early assistance from the research team at ISR, Phenikaa University, and AISDL (Vuong & Associates), under the leadership of Dr. Vuong Quan Hoang (Vương Quân Hoàng).

The project A Database of Vietnam Mathematics was initiated in 2019 by the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM). In August 2019, the SciMath database was constructed. The website for data input and storage (accessed here: http://SciMath.aisdl.com) was later launched and tested on 16th December 2019. The first data lines were officially inputted into the database on 23rd December 2019.

For being inputted into the SciMath database, a publication must meet the following two criteria:

• At least one author of the publication is Vietnamese.
• The publication must be indexed by at least one of these databases: MathSciNet, zbMATH, Scopus, or Web of Science.

The SciMath Database was used to produce the first technical report for the meeting of the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) on November 13, 2020 ^[1].

Its early results have been encouraging as the database enables researchers and the public to better appreciate the past and present contributions of generations of Vietnamese mathematicians to the development of the field. In addition, their networks and significance of works can also be observed in a context.

The project is still ongoing.