The Iraqi National Journal of Earth Science (INJES) is one of the Iraqi Academic Scientific Journals (IASJ). The journal has been published biannually since 2002 under the license of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) until 2026. Beginning in 2025, the publication frequency was increased to four issues per year (quarterly). It is published by the College of Science, University of Mosul, Iraq, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Iraq and within the group of Mosul University journals. The journal is not financially supported by any non-governmental organization. It focuses, especially, on the geology of Iraq and the Middle East, and it may receive any manuscript related to the geology of the world. The journal is double-blind peer-reviewed, open access, and an electronic version. The journal exclusively accepts manuscripts written in Arabic and English. The manuscripts should be processed by iThenticate to prevent plagiarism and to ensure the originality of our submitted manuscripts. A double-blind peer-reviewing system is also used to ensure the quality of the publication. The reviewers will receive acknowledgment letters for reviewing the manuscripts. All published articles on the website will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. INJES requires IQD 200,000 for Iraqi authors inside Iraq for the publication of the accepted manuscript. International authors are exempted from publication fees. All accepted papers will be subjected to linguistic editing, which will be free of charge, and the authors will retain full copyright with unconstrained publishing rights.
Note: The publishing of the journal was stopped twice during the wars that took place in Iraq.
The first time was in 2003 as a result of the war conditions prevailing at the time. Consequently, the second issue of 2003 was not published.
The second time led to the breakdown of publication in the journal, from about four years after Volume 14, Issue 1, Autumn 2014, to the end of 2017, due to the occupation of Mosul city by ISIS/DAESH.
The work in the journal was resumed after the liberation of Mosul City from ISIS/DAESH, and at that time required great efforts to reactivate the journal, as the office had been burned, damaged, and vandalized with all its contents.