The College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences at the University of Baghdad organized a scientific symposium titled “The Secrets of Effective Methods for Increasing the H-index,” presented by Dr. Jalal Hameed Hamza, and attended by a number of faculty members and graduate students.
The symposium aimed to introduce researchers to the mechanisms for enhancing academic reputation and how to impact and excel in their fields of specialization by learning professional strategies and secrets to improving the citation rate of research papers, while emphasizing research ethics in this regard.
The symposium recommended enhancing academic reputation by increasing the H-index, following technical methods, minimizing self-citation to the lowest limits, and focusing on publishing in first and second quartile journals to increase citations after the research paper is published.