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Terms definition

Academic year calendar: The year started on 1st Sept.  and ends on 31 August, next year, including the two months July and August summer holiday.

NUR year calendar: It is a Gregorian Year, starts on 1st January and ends on 31 December.

NUR ranking sheet: An online Google spreadsheet that collects all the scientific activities of the Universities, and is no longer editable and accessible after 31 August.

NUR master sheet: An online Google spreadsheet that collects all the academic staff information, including the QA activities scores, and is no longer editable and accessible after 30 June.

NUR students master sheet: An online Google spreadsheet that collects all the students' information, and is no longer editable and accessible after 15 August.

Academic staff: A teaching or research staff that belongs (Milak) to public or private university. It is acceptable for the NUR that an academic staff to work in two places with two affiliations, only. For the research activities and others, it is accepted that the teaching staff write one or two the affiliations he/she belongs to. During the NUR year calendar, any academic staff shows any different research activities with a third affiliation,  all his/her activities will be EXCLUDED. The private university affiliation needs a one academic year contract, at least, between the staff and University. The academic staff includes; full-time academic staff, part-time academic, staff with paid leave, staff studying Ph.D. inside KRI or abroad.

I3ara Academic Staff: This type of academic staff is who got an unpaid leave for one or two years and started working in another public or private university. This academic staff is no longer belonging to his/her home university, till finishing the unpaid leave period. The Home university has no right to hire the i3ara teaching staff during the period of i3ara. All activities, including the research publication, with the home university affiliation during the period of i3ara will be EXCLUDED. e.g., an I3ara staff is working (2020-2022) with A-University and as a visiting lecturer in a B-University is considered by NUR, whereas, any activities shows the home University affiliation makes NUR to EXCLUDE all the academic staff's activities.

International academic staff:  A teaching or research staff who has non-Iraqi passport and working in one of the Universities in IKR, for at least one academic year.

Exchanged staff: A teaching or research staff who belongs to a University abroad and working in one of the Universities in IKR, for at least one academic year, based on an agreement between the foreign University and in the University in IKR.

International student: An undergraduate or post-graduate  student who has non-Iraqi passport and studying in one of the Universities in IKR, for at least one academic year.

Exchanged student: An undergraduate or post-graduate student who belongs to a University abroad and studying in one of the Universities in IKR, for at least one academic year, based on an agreement between the foreign University and in the University in IKR.

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Guidelines to Hold a Scientific Conference

The NUR is highly supporting the Departments and Faculties at KRG-Universities to hold national and International Scientific Conferences. To assure a quality conference, better electronic presence and saving the rights of the University, the NUR is taking the attention of all who may concern at the University that holding a conference, national or international, should comply with the regulation of the Ministry of Higher Education (MHE) and NUR:



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Guidelines to Hold a Scientific Workshop

The NUR is highly supporting the Departments and Faculties at KRG-Universities to hold national and International Scientific Workshops. To assure a quality conference, better electronic presence and saving the rights of the University, the NUR is taking the attention of all who may concern at the University that holding a workshop, national or international, should comply with the regulation of the Ministry of Higher Education (MHE) and NUR. The difference between a workshop and a conference is that workshops are generally smaller than conferences, and are usually only a day or two long, with no less than 2 hrs, and are dedicated to discussing a specific topic. The workshop is different than the Seminar . The Seminar depends on a presenter who presents his topic to audience, whereas, in the workshop there is a sort or lecturing, training and discussion, in addition to the presentation. The Workshop needs participants inputs, whereas, the Seminar does not. The Workshop is active, whereas, the Seminar is passive.



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Important notes about how and where to publish 

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Important notes about Google Scholar Citation

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Local Publications

Local or national journals are the scientific and academic journals that got license from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHE) and published inside Kurdistan Region-Iraq . The local journals to be considered by NUR must:

In Addition:
The journal that has a membership with the DOAJ will get the full score.
The journal that has not a membership with the DOAJ will get the half score.

Any scientific journal published inside Kurdistan Region-Iraq without a license from the MHE, the condition of international publication will be applied on, i.e., indexd by either SCOPUS or WoS.

Publications weights

Academic-staff activities for highest University rank