Central Scientific Promotions

Requirements for all academic ranks according to Promotions Instructions (No. 167 of 2017):

• Official referral letter forwarding the file to the Central Scientific Promotions Unit.
• Signed and dated request to process the promotion application by the applicant.
• University order granting the academic title (for calculating the required period).
• Administrative order granting the academic title.
• University orders awarding the Master’s and PhD degrees.
• Information verification form.
• Scientific Promotions Form No. (1).
• Scientific Promotions Form No. (2).
• Experts nomination form.
• Administrative order forming the plagiarism committee.
• Minutes of the textual (paper-based) plagiarism committee.
• Electronic plagiarism check for the submitted research (research published after 02/01/2016 is subject to e-plagiarism check).
• Confirmation of research registration from the academic department and the university planning/academic affairs units.
• Declaration of non-plagiarism (sealed by the legal unit in the college).
• Annual performance evaluations must be consecutive from the last promotion date until the current request. If an evaluation is missing for a specific year, an official confirmation is required proving continuity of university service (per MoHESR R&D letter No. BT/4/9952 dated 21/10/2019).
• College Council minutes endorsed by the President of the University.
• University appointment order.
• Administrative start-of-duty order.
• Previously submitted promotion research (published).
• Current promotion research must be completed after the latest academic title and submitted in hard copy + CD (PDF), subject to the following conditions:
• Promotion to Lecturer: one research paper in the general or specialized field (one must be single-author).
• Promotion to Assistant Professor: two papers in the specialized field (one must be single-author).
• Promotion to Professor: all papers in the specialized field (one must be single-author).
• Exemption from the single-author condition for all ranks may apply under the following:
• The applicant is the first author in one of the submitted papers.
• The paper is not extracted from a thesis/dissertation supervised by the applicant.
• The paper is published in journals indexed in databases such as Scopus.
• For Scopus research: required published/indexed papers must be fulfilled, while accepted papers may be treated as “international” according to MoHESR R&D letter No. BT/4/1244 dated 16/02/2021.
• Certificate of Arabic language safety course.
• Certificate of Teaching Methods course completion (required for Lecturer applicants only).
• Scientific integrity/rigor committee report for Scopus papers.
• Publication acceptance letters for unpublished papers.
• Administrative orders for PhD study release and return-to-duty after PhD (for those counting the dissertation as a joint original paper).
• Applicant CV authenticated by the academic department.
• Experts evaluation form for research.
• Promotion summary form.
• Tables (1) & (2) — minimum points required:
  • Lecturer: 70 points (46 from Table 1, 24 from Table 2).
  • Assistant Professor: 80 points (52 from Table 1, 28 from Table 2).
  • Professor: 90 points (59 from Table 1, 31 from Table 2).
• Applicant’s Master’s thesis and PhD dissertation.
• Co-author’s thesis/dissertation for joint research (if applicable).