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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastroenterology

World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG, World J Gastroenterol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJG accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJG are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJG is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJG 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
Editors-in-Chief
  • Andrzej S Tarnawski, DSc, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology Research, University of California Irvine and The Veterans Administration Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA 90822, United States
Indexing/Abstracting

The WJG is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJG as 4.3; JIF without journal self cites: 4.2; 5-year JIF: 5.1; JIF Rank: 29/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q1.

The WJG’s CiteScore for 2023 is 7.8 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Gastroenterology is 25/167.

ISSN
1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)
Editorial
Retrospective Study
Dong Jiang, Yi Qian, Yi-Jun Gu, Ru Wang, Hua Yu, Hui Dong, Dong-Yu Chen, Yan Chen, Hao-Zheng Jiang, Bi-Bo Tan, Min Peng, Yi-Ran Li 
World J Gastroenterol 30(25):3166-3178. Published online Jul 7, 2024. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i25.3166
Letter to the Editor