Department of life medicine engineering at Al-Khwarizmi College in collaboration with the scientific affairs unit at University of Baghdad held a symposium entitled (writing and publishing research in global impact factor journals: Thomson Reuters) in the presence of the dean of the college, Prof. Dr. Alaa Karim Mohammed. This symposium witnessed delivering four lectures that shed light on the importance of publishing researches in international discreet scientific journals so as to upgrade college rankings on Thomson Reuters with Impact Factor. Assistant Prof. Dr. Osama Fadhil Abdul Latif, Assistant Rector for scientific affairs attended this symposium and a number of professors and postgraduate studies.