Scientific Affairs Department
Research support, scientific publishing, conferences and academic partnerships for the university.
The Scientific Affairs Department supports research at the university and the academic activity around it.
Strategic objectives
- Strengthen rigorous research by supporting research projects and encouraging publication in peer-reviewed, internationally recognised journals.
- Raise the quality of faculty and student research output in line with quality and academic accreditation standards.
- Support participation in local, regional and international scientific events, strengthening the university’s scientific presence.
- Organise conferences, seminars and workshops to develop research capacity and spread a culture of innovation.
- Strengthen scientific and research cooperation with universities and research institutions inside and outside Iraq.
- Follow up and improve the university’s international rankings and support the requirements for visibility in international databases and classifications.
- Enable students to do research through student research support, scientific competitions and innovative projects.
- Develop research databases and document the university’s scientific output systematically.
- Strengthen research ethics and commitment to academic integrity in all research activity.
- Link research to community service, addressing development issues and local needs.
Vision and mission
Vision
Leadership in supporting research and academic excellence, and raising the scientific standing of Madenat Alelem University locally and internationally by improving research quality and scientific innovation.
Mission
Supporting and developing research and academic activity by encouraging rigorous scientific publishing, organising scientific events, building research partnerships and enabling faculty and students to contribute to producing knowledge that serves the university’s development goals and the community.
Administrative divisions
Vision: Leadership in supporting and developing research and academic excellence, achieving an advanced scientific standing for the university locally and internationally.
Mission: Supporting the university’s scientific and research environment by organising and developing scientific activity, encouraging rigorous research and strengthening publishing and academic cooperation to quality and accreditation standards.
Objectives: support faculty and student research, organise conferences, seminars and workshops, document the university’s research output, encourage publication in peer-reviewed journals, strengthen cooperation with universities and research institutions, support ranking and accreditation requirements, and entrench research ethics and academic integrity.
- Organise and manage the university’s scientific and research activity: conferences, seminars, workshops and discussion panels.
- Follow up and document the research output of faculty, researchers and students.
- Encourage and support publication in peer-reviewed journals indexed locally and internationally.
- Prepare and update databases of research and academic publishing.
- Follow up university ranking and academic accreditation requirements relating to research.
- Coordinate with colleges and academic departments on research plans and scientific events.
- Support research programmes for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
- Oversee research ethics and ensure compliance with the approved rules and instructions.
- Prepare periodic reports on scientific activity and achievements for the competent bodies.
- Strengthen scientific and research cooperation with local and international universities and research institutions.
- Follow up scientific awards, support programmes and research funding.
- Carry out the instructions of the university presidency and the Ministry of Higher Education on scientific affairs.
Vision: Excellence in applying the government programme’s requirements and achieving quality and institutional performance indicators in higher education.
Mission: Implementing and following up the government programme’s academic and scientific axes, and supporting scientific publishing and reputable journals, strengthening the university’s standing locally and internationally.
- Follow up the implementation of the government programme’s approved items and axes for the university.
- Prepare periodic performance-indicator reports and submit them to the competent bodies.
- Coordinate with colleges and departments to meet the government programme’s requirements.
- Support and develop scientific publishing to the approved standards.
- Follow up international scientific journals and publishing and ranking indicators.
- Supervise the university journal administratively and scientifically.
- Carry out the instructions of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
International Journals Unit
One of the units of the Government Programme Division.
- Follow up scientific publishing in reputable international journals (Scopus, Web of Science).
- Build databases of indexed and approved journals.
- Provide support and guidance to faculty on international publishing.
- Follow up international ranking requirements relating to scientific publishing.
- Prepare periodic reports on publishing in international journals.
University Journal Unit
One of the units of the Government Programme Division.
- Supervise the administrative and organisational side of the university’s scientific journal.
- Follow up publication of issues on the approved schedule.
- Coordinate with the editorial board and reviewers.
- Ensure compliance with scientific publishing standards and academic ethics.
- Work towards indexing the journal in approved databases and classifications.
- Document and archive the journal’s issues electronically.
Annual plan 2025–2026
- Follow up the colleges’ implementation of the research plans they submitted, within the set deadlines, keeping exceptional activities to what is necessary.
- Continue sending letters of appreciation from the university president to authors and researchers published in indexed journals, and publish them on the university and department sites.
- Propose financial rewards for each paper published in Scopus or Clarivate (Q1, Q2), each patent bearing the university’s name, and each authored book.
- Hold the student research conference, with material and moral prizes for the top three in each axis.
- Hold three workshops on developing the journals and applying the roadmap for international indexing.
- Produce a detailed guide to the scientific sabbatical programme and hold a workshop on its procedures, to simplify them and encourage applicants.
- Hold a workshop on scientific publishing and research writing, particularly for new faculty.
- Hold a workshop on the government programme to review its activities and classify them to ministry requirements.
- Hold a workshop for deans and their associates explaining scientific cooperation with international and local universities.
- Propose a national classification of research centres, with criteria covering researcher numbers and ranks, indexed output and citation impact.
- Introduce financial support for researchers applying for projects of benefit to the university, through an integrated system under development in the department.
- Hold a scientific conference for scholarship students and honour outstanding ones, under the slogan “Scholarship students are a national asset”.
- Conclude agreements and twinning arrangements with universities and academic institutions that serve the university.
- Spread a research culture with the Research and Information Rehabilitation Centre, through seminars and courses.
- Build the department’s website as its front to the world, carrying its activities, research publishing and conference statistics.