In the presence of His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific and Research, and the President of Basrah University of Oil and Gas, Prof. Dr. Raad Zaalan Hammoud was honored with the gold medal of the Al Ain University Award for Academic Researcher in its third edition, and within the top-ranking universities category, this morning, Wednesday, the first of February, as this award is considered annual by the University of Al-Ain for researchers from various Iraqi universities and under supervision The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, as solid international standards were used in the evaluation and comparison between researchers, and these criteria and indicators that were adopted in the evaluation and comparison are Scopus database, SciVal database, Web of Science database, Publons database, Google Scholar database, and finally the researchers site index German ResearchGate database The winners were honored during a large scientific carnival, and Zaalan's winning of this award was a reflection of his scientific work in these international platforms through his scientific publication of a large number of research and authoring scientific books in addition to citations (quotations) for his published research, as well as obtaining membership in an evaluation committee for more than From 50 international scientific journals, and the ceremony of this scientific festival was also attended by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education for Scientific Research Affairs and a number of university presidents and officials in the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.
