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Welcome to the World Journal of Orthopedics

World Journal of Orthopedics (WJOWorld J Orthop) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJO accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJO are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJO is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of orthopedics, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJO 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 >> 

2024 Published Issues
6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Massimiliano Leigheb, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, (E-mail:massimiliano.leigheb@uniupo.it) S.C. Ortopedia e Traumatologia Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Maggiore della carità di Novara, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara 28100, Italy
  • Xiao-Jian Ye, MD, Chief Physician, (E-mail:yexj2002@163.com) Department of Orthopedics, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200233, China
Indexing/Abstracting
WJO 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 WJO as 2.0; JIF without journal self cites: 1.9; 5-year JIF: 2.3; JIF Rank: 49/136 in orthopedics; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJO’s CiteScore for 2023 is 3.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Orthopedics and sports medicine is 132/321.

ISSN
2218-5836 (online)
Editorial
Review
Minireviews
Waleed Albishi, Amjad Albaroudi, Abdulrahman M Alaseem, Sarah Aljasser, Ibrahim Alshaygy, Abdullah Addar 
World J Orthop 15(6):520-528. Published online Jun 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i6.520
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Observational Study
Prospective Study
Systematic Reviews
Katherine Esser, James J Butler, Mackenzie Roof, Nathaniel P Mercer, Michael C Harrington, Alan P Samsonov, Andrew J Rosenbaum, John G Kennedy 
World J Orthop 15(6):585-592. Published online Jun 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i6.585
Case Report
Xiu-Mao Li, Ze-Hao Chen, Ke-Yi Wang, Jun-Nan Chen, Zhao-Nong Yao, Yu-Hong Yao, Xiao-Wei Zhou, Nong Lin 
World J Orthop 15(6):593-601. Published online Jun 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i6.593
Letter to the Editor