Now, Taiz University attempts to formulate new rules regulating the academic promotions for faculty members. That is challenging and courageous effort made by the academic council to raise our university ranking. However, there are still fluctuations and misunderstanding of some of these rules, e.g., misestimating the effort devoted by a researcher who write and publish a review/mini-review paper. While simple practical articles published in local universities’ journals (all without any impact factors and some with no ISSN yet) are strongly accepted for the academic promotions, the review/mini-review articles are not even if published in ISI journals of good impact factor and mention. So, answering the aforementioned question may assist the academic council to make a proper decision for sake of enhancing the international ranking of our university.