Academic leadership in Iraq: Academia.edu percentile ranking

In contemporary medicine, superior medical practices and higher quality medical services have been increasingly linked with academic medical practices. The more academic the physician, the more likely to be described as adhering to the scientific medical practices. Therefore, there has been an increasing interest in the practices of medical leadership and academic medical leadership, and ranking of academics. More than 500 profiles academia.edu were examined on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th of June 2022 with aim of determining the Iraqi academic medical leaders who have a percentile ranking at academia.edu of TOP 1%. Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi was the Iraqi physician and also the only Iraqi researcher who had a percentile ranking at academia.edu of TOP 1%. Researchers in fields other than medicine who have a percentile ranking on academia.edu included Muhannad Al-Waily from Kufa University-Faculty of Engineering-Mechanical Engineering. He had a percentile ranking at academia.edu of TOP 3% and Raad Z. Homod from the University of Basrah, Petroleum and Gas Engineering Faculty Member. He had a percentile ranking at academia.edu of TOP 5%.