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Welcome to the World Journal of Diabetes

World Journal of Diabetes (WJDWorld J Diabetes) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJD accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJD are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJD is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of diabetes, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJD 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
1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Lu Cai, MD, PhD, Professor, Pediatric Research Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, United States
  • Michael Horowitz, DSc, FRACP, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: michael.horowitz@adelaide.edu.au) Department of Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide 5005, Australia
  • Md. Shahidul Islam, BSc, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJD is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJD as 4.2; JIF without journal self cites: 4.1; 5-year JIF: 4.2; JIF Rank: 40/186 in endocrinology and metabolism; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

ISSN
1948-9358 (online)
Editorial
Minireviews
Retrospective Study
Ji-Kui Wang, Di Zhang, Jin-Feng Wang, Wan-Lin Lu, Jing-Yuan Wang, Shi-Feng Liang, Ran Liu, Jing-Xin Jiang, Hong-Tao Li, Xuan Yang 
World J Diabetes 16(1):99526. Published online Jan 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i1.99526
Clinical Trials Study
Na Yang, Lu Lv, Shu-Meng Han, Li-Yun He, Zi-Yi Li, Yu-Cheng Yang, Fan Ping, Ling-Ling Xu, Wei Li, Hua-Bing Zhang, Yu-Xiu Li 
World J Diabetes 16(1):95209. Published online Jan 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i1.95209
Prospective Study
Ayşe N Erbakan, Müzeyyen Arslan Bahadır, Fatoş N Kaya, Büşra Güleç, Miraç Vural Keskinler, Ümmügülsüm Aktemur Çelik, Özge Faydalıel, Banu Mesçi, Aytekin Oğuz 
World J Diabetes 16(1):98322. Published online Jan 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i1.98322
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Mohammed Al-Beltagi, Adel Salah Bediwy, Nermin Kamal Saeed, Hosameldin A Bediwy, Reem Elbeltagi 
World J Diabetes 16(1):97954. Published online Jan 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i1.97954
Scientometrics
Case Report
Letter to the Editor