Journal of Tropical Science and Engineering (Journal) is a multidisciplinary scientific journal, licensed to operate as a print journal in 2012 and an electronic journal in 2024 (License No.1479/GP-BTTTT dated August 20, 2012 and No.91/GP-BTTTT dated April 9, 2024 issued by the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam). The Journal is headquartered in Hanoi.

The journal is published every 3 months (4 issues/year), publishing research results and overview articles in 3 groups of fields: Tropical Ecology and Environment; Chemistry and Material Sciences; Biomedicine and Pharmacy. In 2022, the journal registered the international identifier Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.58334/vrtc.jtst and assigned DOI codes to all articles of the journal. The members of the Editorial Board of the Journal are prestigious scientists and leading scientists from Vietnam and many countries in the world. The journal has been recognized by the Vietnam State Council for Professorship to score scientific articles in Chemistry, Medicine and Biology with scores ranging from 0-0.5 points.

Currently, the Journal is building and perfecting a set of criteria and making efforts to join the List of prestigious international journals with a roadmap to enter Scopus in 2028.