The scientific intellectual output of any nation paints its scientific place among the nations of the world. It is the product of its scientists and scholars and the juices of their ideas and opinions. Hence the great importance of studying this scientific output arises to know Iraq's scientific status among the Arab countries and the countries of the world. Whatever this intellectual product, whether literary, human or purely scientific, it has the merit in the formation or development of human knowledge. From this point of importance came the idea of studying the Iraqi geographical intellectual production in the field of soil geography to know the extent of its contribution to the development of modern and contemporary geographical knowledge.
The study considered that research published in Iraqi academic and specialized scientific journals are the ones that show more intellectual output than others, of letters and scientific papers or books. This is due to the fact that such research goes to the researcher a way with his ideas, to reach precise disciplines in science may be difficult to go through these messages or this on the hand. On the other hand, modernism and modernity find them in those researches because it always takes a problem in all its dimensions and puts them quick solutions, in another meaning, keeping pace with societal variables requires focused research with rapid solutions.