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Welcome to the World Journal of Hepatology

World Journal of Hepatology (WJH, World J Hepatol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJH accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJH are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJH is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of hepatology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJH include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, (E-mail: kjkang@dsmc.or.kr) Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Medical Center, Daegu 42601, South Korea
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJH is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science), Scopus, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

The 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2023 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJH as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.4; 5-year JIF: 2.7; JIF Rank: 72/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

The WJH’s CiteScore for 2023 is 4.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Hepatology is 41/82.
ISSN
1948-5182 (online)
Editorial
Review
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Randhall B Carteri, Claudio A Marroni, Luis F Ferreira, Letícia P Pinto, Juliana Czermainski, Cristiane V Tovo, Sabrina A Fernandes 
World J Hepatol 17(1):99183. Published online Jan 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i1.99183
Mohamad El Labban, Juliet Kotys, Sabrina Makher, Sai Shanmukha Sreeram Pannala, Khalil El Gharib, Hamed Chehab, Liliane Deeb, Salim R Surani 
World J Hepatol 17(1):102270. Published online Jan 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i1.102270
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Himayat Ullah, Sarwat Huma, Ghulam Yasin, Muhammad Ashraf, Nafisa Tahir, Qazi Tahir Uddin, Hossam Shabana, Mostafa A R Hussein, Abdulrahman Shalaby, Mohammad Mossaad Alsayyad, Ashraf Said, Ali Farahat, Hani Ismail Hamed, Hazem Sayed Ahmed Ayoub, Mohammed S Imam, Essam Elmahdi 
World J Hepatol 17(1):101212. Published online Jan 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i1.101212
Jayesh Soni, Nikhilesh Pathak, Mihir Gharia, Devina Aswal, Jaymin Parikh, Prachi Sharma, Astha Mishra, Dhvni Lalan, Twinkle Maheshwari 
World J Hepatol 17(1):101630. Published online Jan 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i1.101630
Prospective Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Ana D Cano Contreras, María Del Rocío Francisco, Jose L Vargas Basurto, Kevin D Gonzalez-Gomez, Mercedes Amieva-Balmori, Federico Roesch Dietlen, José M Remes-Troche 
World J Hepatol 17(1):101704. Published online Jan 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i1.101704
Meta-Analysis
Scientometrics
Case Report
Letter to the Editor