The University of Basrah ranked sixth among  Universities and Private Colleges in the latest SCIMAGO ranking of International Universities.

The university's president, Dr. Muhannad Jawad Kadhim, stated that this achievement reflects the university's efforts to develop its academic and research programs, as well as its commitment to providing an advanced educational environment that keeps pace with the latest international standards. He also noted that University of Basrah continued efforts to promote Its Infrastructures.

He added that this result confirms the university's distinguished position locally and internationally and its determination to achieve sustainable higher education standards that meet global environmental and development challenges.

It is worth noting that the SCIMAGO ranking is based on a composite index that combines three different criteria based on research performance (50%), innovation outputs (30%), and societal impact (20%). Each main indicator includes sub-indicators such as the number of published research papers, the number of reference citations, and relative impact factors, in addition to requirements related to publishing at least 100 research papers in the SCIMAGO database within the evaluation year.

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