The Iraqi universities and academic institutions have achieved significant competitive results in Scimago Institutions Rankings 2022 issued recently and that witnessed the competition of (8840) educational institutions around the world. The results showed a new scientific achievement of the University of Baghdad in this ranking followed by Mustansiriyah University and the University of Technology along with thirty-nine Iraqi institutions and various universities across the country, including 28 public universities.
It is noteworthy that Scimago Ranking is a classification of academic and research-related institutions ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance (50%), innovation outputs (30%) and societal impact (20%) measured by their web visibility rating is based on a composite index that combines three different criteria based on research performance (50%), innovation outputs (30%) and community impact (20%) in addition to sub-indicators such as the number of published research, quality or sobriety of published journals, number of citations and impact factor, as well as publishing requirements for at least 100 research papers in Scopus database during the evaluation year.
