The College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah organized a workshop (conditions for scientific promotions and standards for solid scientific publishing)
The workshop included two lectures initiated by Assistant Professor Dr. Zuhair Ghaleb Al-Shaheen, in which he explained all the administrative controls that must be followed to obtain a promotion for each academic rank, including three years for a lecturer, four years for an assistant professor, and six years for a professor. The nature of the research and writings that are submitted for academic promotion was also discussed. The published research is in the general or specific specialty for the rank of lecturer, and it is in the specific specialty for the rank of assistant professor and the rank of professor. Dr. Zuhair also explained the conditions for obtaining sufficient points and research published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
As for Professor Dr. Osama Ayoub Yaqoub, he gave a detailed explanation in his lecture about how to choose the appropriate scientific journal for publication, how to choose the content and stay away from fake and commercial journals, according to the instructions of the Research and Development Department. Graduate students were also trained on how to publish and choose the appropriate journals. For research derived from their thesis it was also discussed how to browse the Scopus website, download the monthly updated Excel sheet, and ensure the presence of journals in the database, how to access the Bell website for fake journals and how to identify journals to avoid publishing in them.