The ministry of higher education and scientific research had announced that the Iraqi universities and academic institutions have achieved important competitive results in the Scimago Institutions Rankings 2023, which witnessed the entry of 8433 institutions across the world that showed the competition of forty-seven Iraqi institutions, including twenty-eight universities, such as the Universities of Technology, Baghdad, Babylon and Mustansiriya.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Iraqi universities and colleges are recording their increasing competition in international rankings, including the Shanghai Ranking (Academic Ranking of World Universities), in which the University of Baghdad appeared within the chemical engineering discipline, the Times Higher Education Ranking, where eight universities have participated in, the QS World University Rankings where five universities has included in, as well as the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings with the entry of seventy-three Iraqi universities and colleges, and the URA Ranking with the participation of four Iraqi universities, in addition to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities that witnessed the entry of more than a hundred Iraqi universities and colleges.<\/p>\n