Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced on that Iraqi universities and academic institutions obtained significant competitive scores in the 2023 Scimago Institutions Ranking, which evaluated eight thousand four hundred and thirty-three institutions around the world.

Higher Education highlighted that the results in (https://www.scimagoir.com/rankings.php?country=IRQ) reviewed that forty-seven Iraqi institutions including twenty-eight universities, including Technology, Baghdad, Babylon and Al-Mustansiriyah Universities were scored.

Higher Education demonstrated that the Scimago ranking is based on a composite indicator that combines three different criteria based on research performance by (50%), innovation output by (30%) and societal impact by (20%), as well as each main indicator includes sub-indicators such as the number of published researches, the quality of journals in which they are published, the number of reference citations and relative influence factors besides publication requirements for at least 100 papers in the Scopus within the evaluation year.

It is worth mentioning that Iraqi universities and colleges scored their increasing top competition in the international rankings, including the Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, in which the University of Baghdad obtained top score within the chemical engineering specialty, (The Times) ranking, in which eight universities obtained top score, (QS) ranking, in which five universities are obtained top score, (Greenmetric) ranking, in which seventy-three Iraqi universities and colleges obtained top score and URA ranking, in which four Iraqi universities obtained top score, as well as (Webometrics) ranking, which more than one hundred Iraqi universities and colleges obtained top score.