Iraqi universities and academic institutions have achieved significant competitive results in the 2023 Scimago World Ranking, which evaluated 8433 institutions around the world.
The results (https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?country=IRQ) showed forty-seven Iraqi institutions, including twenty-eight universities, including Technological, Baghdad, Babel and Al-Mustansiriya universities.
The Scimago classification is based on a composite indicator that combines three different criteria based on research performance (50%), innovation output (30%) and societal impact (20%). Each main indicator includes sub-indicators such as the number of papers published, the quality of journals in which they are published, the number of reference citations, and relative influence factors, as well as requirements for publishing at least 100 papers in the SCOPUS database within the evaluation year.
It is worth mentioning that Iraqi universities and colleges record their increasing competition in international rankings, including the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, in which the University of Baghdad appeared within the chemical engineering major, (The Times) classification, in which eight universities are evaluated, and the (QS) classification, in which there are five universities. As well as (Greenmetric) classification, in which seventy-three Iraqi universities and colleges entered, and the URA classification, in which there are four Iraqi universities, in addition to the (Webometrics) classification, which recorded the attendance and competition of more than one hundred Iraqi universities and colleges.
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