The University of Baghdad has recorded a distinguished scientific presence, with a select group of its professors and researchers included in the global database of the most-cited researchers, known as the World’s Top 2% Scientists list. The list was prepared by a research team led by Prof. Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford University in the United States, based on Scopus data, and published through the research repository of Elsevier, reflecting the international scientific presence of the university’s researchers and the impact of their research output.
The database included researchers from the University of Baghdad in a variety of scientific, engineering, and medical disciplines, according to standardized scientific indicators of citations and research impact, under two main categories. The first is career-wide impact (Career-wide Impact), which measures the cumulative influence of published research. The second is single-year impact (Single-year Impact), which measures the influence of research output and scientific citations during the specified reference year.
The President of the University of Baghdad, Prof. Dr. Alaa Abdulhussein Attiya Hassan, affirmed that the inclusion of researchers from the university in this international scientific database is an important indicator of the presence of their research output in global academic circles, and reflects the efforts of the university’s professors in producing influential scientific research that attracts the attention of the international research community.
He added that the University of Baghdad is continuing to implement its research policy aimed at enhancing the quality and originality of research, directing it toward addressing scientific and developmental challenges, expanding international research cooperation, and supporting rigorous scientific publishing and innovation, thereby strengthening the university’s standing and academic competitiveness at the regional and global levels.
This activity contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, namely Goal 4, which calls for quality education, in addition to Goal 17, which relates to partnerships for the goals.
