Requirements and Regulations of Application

(Please read the instructions below carefully before applying.)   Choose one of the topics below to apply for the award: The first field: Medical and Health Sciences The second field: Engineering and Technological Sciences The third field: Pure Sciences The fourth field: Agricultural Sciences The fifth field: Young researchers within the specialty of the first four fields above (the age of the researcher is 30 years or less) The sixth field: Humanities Sciences Each researcher is allowed to apply in only one of the above-mentioned fields. The applicant for the award must be of Iraqi nationality and work permanently in one of the Iraqi academic institutions affiliated with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The first affiliation of the researcher in all research submitted for the award is affiliated with one of the Iraqi universities or academic institutions of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Any researcher who has submitted research and whose first affiliation in that research is affiliated with an institution other than those mentioned above is prohibited from entering the competition. Published research must be in journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases, or at least one of them, for applicants in the first five fields only. Research submitted for the award is research that was published during the period from 1/1/2023 to 12/3/2023 only. The number of research papers published by the researcher during the above period and submitted to enter the competition for the first four fields shall not be less than five research papers during the period mentioned above. Applicants for the fifth field and the sixth field are excluded from this condition. The value of the impact factor (H-index) for the researcher applying for the award for the first four fields is equal to or higher than ten (10) in the researcher’s calculation in the database. Applicants for the fifth and sixth fields are excluded from this condition. Any researcher will be excluded from entering the competition for the award if he enters incorrect data or violates the instructions above. The date for launching the application form for the award is 3/25/2024, and the application form closes on 4/25/2024 at 12 pm. The date for honouring the researchers who won the award is Thursday, May 2, 2024, or Saturday, May 4, 2024.

Scoring Criteria for the Award-Competing Applicants

Applicants will be evaluated based on the following criteria: 60% of the total competitive score will be allocated based on the applicant’s scientific output during the year 2023, specifically for research articles published and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases. Points are awarded in proportion to the combined CiteScore and Impact Factor of the journal in which the work was published. The distribution of points among co-authors is as follows: First author: 100% of the points Second author: 80% Third author: 60% Fourth author and beyond: 40% In addition, the corresponding author is granted an extra 30% of the allocated points regardless of their position in the list of authors. 15% of the total score is awarded based on citation counts in the Web of Science. For instance, if the researcher has received 420 citations, they will be awarded 63 points. 10% of the total score is assigned based on citation counts in the Scopus database. For example, 420 citations would equate to 42 points. 10% of the total score is allocated to the researcher’s H-index as recorded in Web of Science. 5% of the total score is assigned to the H-index in Scopus. The award recipient will be the researcher who accumulates the highest overall score within each evaluation category. The criteria outlined in points 1 to 5 apply to the following fields: medical sciences, engineering, pure sciences, agricultural sciences, and young researchers. For humanities and social sciences, the evaluation is based on the number of indexed publications in both international and national databases. Points are distributed as follows: 10 points per publication where the applicant is the first author 8 points if listed as the second author 6 points for the third author 4 points for the fourth author An additional 3 points are granted if the applicant is listed as the corresponding author for the submitted research.