Data on scientific Scopus-indexed publications of 23 autonomous universities in Vietnam from 2010 to 2022

The data set comprises scientific productivity data for autonomous public universities in Vietnam from 2010 to 2022. The data is structured within a Microsoft Excel file. The file consists of 28 sheets, of which sheet A1 contains a list of autonomous public universities along with their documents and the year of autonomy, and sheet A2 contains the affiliation IDs of these universities that are indexed by Scopus. During the period 2010–2022, the number of publications by these units over time and by research field is detailed on Sheets B1–B3. The quantity of publications for each unit over time is detailed on Sheets C1-C23.