After announced the lists of the best Scopus researchers in Iraqi universities, the Civil Engineering Department took place in the top of the lists for the best Scopus researchers in Iraqi universities for the second year respectively. This achievement for Civil Engineering Department was gotten by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yusef Fattah, head of the highways and bridges engineering branch, who came to the first place among the University of Technology researchers and the second place among researchers of Iraqi universities following a researcher from Al-Kindy College Of Medicine / University of Baghdad during Scopus statistics for the period (2014 - 2019).

As well as, Assist Prof. Dr. Ali Majeed who is a faculty member of the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Technology appeared among researchers’ names who have the highest citations for researches.