The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Prof. Dr. Nabil Kazem Abdel Sahib, stressed the importance of upgrading and developing Iraqi scientific journals and enhancing the international academic reputation of institutions of higher education and scientific research in Iraq. Postgraduate studies in Iraqi scientific journals with impact factors and the formation of solid research teams from government and private universities and colleges to increase and achieve scientific publishing in the name of more than one institution and according to specialization and within the path of knowledge integration. The Scientific Supervision and Evaluation Authority undertakes the process of evaluating institutions according to the achievement of scientific requirements and indicators of solid outputs. He stressed the strengthening of universities’ websites and enabling researchers and students to link local scientific journals that are included in global containers, pointing at the same time to the importance of international openness and the involvement of researchers around the world by publishing research in journals Iraqi universities Sustaining forms of knowledge cooperation and academic communication, and benefiting from Iraq’s scholars abroad in reviewing and developing mechanisms to improve education and international reputation.
