It topped the Iraqi universities in the Webometrics ranking, securing the 40th position in the Arab region and 1438th globally out of more than 12,000 universities. Baghdad University advanced 55 places, representing its position within the top 12% of universities worldwide.
The Spanish Webometrics ranking, published by the Spanish National Research Council, relies on three main criteria: visibility (weighted at 50%), which is based on the content of the university’s website and the number of external links pointing to it; transparency (weighted at 10%), calculated based on the number of citations received by the most cited researchers at the university; and excellence (weighted at 40%), measured by the number of research papers ranked among the top 10% of the most cited papers in each of the 27 fields of the comprehensive database for the period 2019-2023.
Diyala University came in second place locally, followed by Al-Mustansiriya University in third place. It is noteworthy that the ranking included data analysis from over 32,000 higher education institutions across more than 200 countries, with editors of the ranking being scientists working in a world-class public research institution with extensive experience in metric-based evaluation.
The Webometrics ranking is the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions, providing an independent, objective, free, and open scientific exercise every six months to offer reliable, multidimensional, updated, and useful information about the performance of universities worldwide. The primary goal of the ranking is to promote open access to knowledge produced by universities, making the best strategy for improving university rankings to increase the quantity and quality of their web content.
