Dr. Hassan,

This is really a great question. In addition to what other colleagues mentioned, there is almost no collaboration with other universities in developed countries. Collaboration helps researchers to learn and apply the modern techniques in their research as well as how to develop hypothesis of their investigations instead of doing traditional research like the repeated ideas of iraqi investigations. WE SHOULD AS RESEARCHERS PAY SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THE QUALITY NOT THE QUANTITY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, which is not the case nowadays in most Iraqi universities.

Thank you   

Dear Dr. Hassan

I believe that the non-supporting by the government through financial support of the researches and the unavailability of instruments in the lab. In addition to non-supporting the contribution at the conferences are the main reason for this weakness

Thank you so much Dr.Ali

There are several reasons:

- Security & safety

- Higher Education Ministry's rule and instructions

- The promotion is not based on knowledge & experience

- no one  supports researchers

 and much more

Dear Rzger,thank you so much.

i agree with Dr. Ali H. Abbar

regards

Dr. Hassan,

This is really a great question. In addition to what other colleagues mentioned, there is almost no collaboration with other universities in developed countries. Collaboration helps researchers to learn and apply the modern techniques in their research as well as how to develop hypothesis of their investigations instead of doing traditional research like the repeated ideas of iraqi investigations. WE SHOULD AS RESEARCHERS PAY SPECIFIC ATTENTION TO THE QUALITY NOT THE QUANTITY OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, which is not the case nowadays in most Iraqi universities.

Thank you   

Many thanks, Dr.Ali and Dr.Aamal for your comments.

The original research can flourish in my opinion in full pledged international cooperation, roughly speaking in order not to invent a bicycle. Any talent (and there are talented young people) must be grown up in a free environment of the cutting edge ideas and research. And the focused state support is important, but it should be directed and specific.

After a decade of working with very talented students and faculty in Iraqi universities, as well as interacting with the 50+ Iraqi PhD students now enrolled at my home university (of South Carolina), I agree that all of the comments listed thus far are important. But I would stress four that are critical. (1.) Emphasizing the importance of thorough literature review. "Publication" is joining a current conversation. You cannot join in if you don't know what people are talking about now. What they were talking about in 1986 is a past conversation. It was important then. it may not be now. (2) Related to that, clear and consistent access to high-impact journals. Time and again I have arranged for digital access, donated subscriptions, etc as well as bringing over terrabytes of digital offprints. And then within a year, I discover that nobody has any idea what these things are, or where to access them -- or if they know, they have no access to reliable internet connectivity. Ministries and University Administration >must< ensure that this fundamental resource is available -- and >require< that departments use it. (3) Unfamiliarity with competitive grants and awards. Yes, we all need a certain amount of "core" budget. But American labs are supplied with equipment >by their researchers,< not by the university. How? They start, as students, learning how to successfully develop funding for their own research. AND there is a departmental and campus administrative structure to manage those funds.  Journal access, literature review, and self-management of research efforts are the >foundation< of significant basic and applied research. (4) Pay wall/page fee barriers. Many researchers do not realize that these can be negotiable.Journals understand that not everyone can submit page fees. But this is also an advantage of international collaboration. If your institution cannot help with publication costs, a collaborator's may be able to.

 Thank you so much dear Dr.Yulia and Dr.Jennifer for your vital answers.

No doubt that research in Iraq and by Iraqis abroad is improving in conduct and results.  A large number of publications, that are now visible to many researchers in the world is one of the evidences on this improvement. However, research in Iraq including that in Universities  is defected in a number of aspects at the level of national and university level policies, the design, the rigorous measurements, analysis and marketing.  These limits the chances of publishing articles in high quality journals.  For research to be of high quality and clear purpose, it needs  country ownership and not individual adventure, political will and commitment, adequate infrastructure (human, funds),  resources (human, funds),mentoring and leadership (team work), partnership,  ethical, legal and social implications consideration , monitoring health policies and health practice and sufficient space for publication.

All these are defected in my view (with exceptions of course). To give example; how many research works are carried out by teams across universities? What is the annual budget for scientific research in Iraq? Who funds research?

Scientific research is very competitive, and researchers must keep up with the latest developments in their field.  Preprints, copies of articles that have not yet been published, are rarely available for researchers. However, most libraries in Iraqi universities are poor and not linked together. Furthermore, the libraries are not provided by linking to publishers like what you see in international universities. In advanced countries, when the student orders a materials from the university's library the university in case does not have the materials will order from other universities.

Iraqi government funding for university research has been unsteady and, in actual terms, decreasing at a time when other countries have increased funding for research and development.

Many reasons have been mentioned by colleagues, but sometimes the study has the original research components. The problem is in the research evaluators, because for psychological, financial or other reasons, the evaluator plays a negative role in the assessment.

Many thanks Dr. Omran for your answer.

Thank you Dr. Rzger for your answer

Many thanks Dr. Isam for your answer.

We must admit that we lack for financial support, understanding the ethics for a novel research and the scientific cooperation between us. But at first the financial support. One of the most important requirements to publish a research in a peer reviewed journal is that it is Novel and checked for plagiarism, and that is a case we were not familiar with it. Best regards.

Thank you so much Dr.Nabeel for your vital and worthy comments.

Thank you so much Dr.Mutasem for your answer. My question concerns not with the quality or originality of researches, but with low production of such researchs.

Dear Sir:

There are many causes but most important : poor in supportation and experiance.

Regards.

Hi

I don't think that .but , at the same time there are many causes for this result and most important causes are absence of institutions that have a big money for scientific research as in other countries and on the other hand our researchers have poor experience.

regards

Apart from lack in financial support, novel research, publication and scientific cooperation between native researchers. Researchers and postgraduate students need well orientation of collaboration/fellowships with foreign scientists internationalization and diversification works well for shared knowledge and research advancement. Best regards.