Evaluation and Selection Criteria:
- First Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on the impact factor of the scientific journal, which published the research and the number of scientific citations in the submitted research.
- Second Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on researches' production published in peer-reviewed journals with a high impact factor (of no less than 1.6), in addition to the number of citations by the researchers.
- Third Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on the superiority of the following indicators:
- Fourth Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on the superiority of the following indicators:
- i10-Index.
- H-Index.
- Number of scientific citations.
- Fifth Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on matching what has been published in media channels with a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
- Sixth Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on the highest number of publications in a peer-reviewed scientific journals (with an impact factor of no less than 2), in addition to the highest number of citations.
Seventh Track Criteria: Selection criteria is based on best health innovation, in terms of the following:
- Achieve sustainable solutions to reduce health care costs.
- Improve the quality of health services.
- Improve the quality of life for individuals through the development of new methods of disease prevention and treatment.
- Finding new ways to deliver health services.
Selection is based on excellence according to the following criteria:
- Pioneering: The research project should be unique in terms of its technique, idea, concept, and approach.
- Importance: The research deliverables should have a significant influence in the Kingdom, especially on the proposed health research topics.
- Collaboration: The collaborative research should be conducted with the participation of more than one organization.
- Impact: 20% for Impact: The research project should have a direct impact on healthcare, introduce a new model/ device/ process for healthcare development, or have an impact on the Saudi economic development.
- Appreciation by Colleagues: The research project should be published in an indexed journal, or be granted a patent.
- Research Excellence: Number of research papers published in indexed journals.
- Research Leadership: Number of published papers for the researcher as a first author.