Iraqi universities and academic institutions have achieved significant competitive results in the 2023 Scimago World Ranking, which evaluated eight thousand four hundred and thirty-three 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%). Relevancy as well as publication requirements for at least 100 papers in the SCOPUS database within the evaluation year.
It is worth noting 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 (The Times) classification, in which eight universities are located, and the (QS) classification, in which there are five universities. Universities and the (Greenmetric) classification, in which seventy-three Iraqi universities and colleges entered, and the URA classification, in which four Iraqi universities are located, 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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