Professor Dr. Firdous Nouri Jaafar, a faculty member in the Department of Life Sciences at the College of Science, University of Basrah, has been selected to serve as a scientific reviewer for the journal *Microbiology Open*.
Dr. Jaafar noted that the journal is a prestigious publication specializing in high-impact research within the fields of medical microbiology and related disciplines. It is indexed in the Clarivate and Scopus databases (ranking in the Q2 quartile) and holds an Impact Factor of 3.6 and a CiteScore of 5.1. The journal is published by Wiley in the United States.