
The Iraqi universities and academic institutions obtained important competitive scores in Scimago World Ranking for 2022, which evaluated eight thousand and eighty-four institutions around the world.
Higher Education reviewed that results in (https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?country=IRQ) demonstrated that thirty-nine Iraqi institutions and universities, including twenty-eight public universities were topped by Baghdad, Al-Mustansiriyah and Technology Universities.
It is worth mentioning that the Scimago ranking is based on a composite index that combines three different criteria based on research performance by (50%), innovation output by (30%), societal impact by (20%) and reference and relative impact factors as well as publication requirements for at least 100 SCOPUS searches within the evaluation year.
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Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research