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Welcome to the World Journal of Stem Cells

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

2023 Published Issues
5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Shengwen Calvin Li, MPhil, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Research Scientist, Senior Research Fellow, (E-mail: sli@choc.org; shengwel@uci.edu; choc.uci@gmail.com) Center for Neuroscience and Stem Cell Research, CHOC Children’s Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Neuroscience Institute, UC Irvine, Orange, CA 92868-3874, United States
  • Carlo Ventura, MD, PhD, Director, Full Professor, (E-mail: carlo.ventura@unibo.it) National Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems, Bologna 40129, Italy
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJSC is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Reference Citation Analysis, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics
The 2022 Edition of Journal Citation Reports cites the 2021 impact factor (IF) for WJSC as 5.247; IF without journal self cites: 5.028; 5-year IF: 4.964; Journal Citation Indicator: 0.56; Ranking: 12 among 29 journals in cell and tissue engineering; Quartile category: Q2; Ranking: 86 among 194 journals in cell biology; and Quartile category: Q2. The WJSC’s CiteScore for 2021 is 5.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2021: Histology is 17/61; Genetics is 145/335; Genetics (clinical) is 42/86; Molecular Biology is 221/386; Cell Biology is 164/274.
ISSN
1948-0210 (online)
Review
Yu-Xin Liu, Jia-Ming Sun, Chia-Kang Ho, Ya Gao, Dong-Sheng Wen, Yang-Dan Liu, Lu Huang, Yi-Fan Zhang 
World J Stem Cells 15(5):342-353. Published online May 26, 2023. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v15.i5.342
Daniel García-Sánchez, Alberto González-González, Ana Alfonso-Fernández, Mónica Del Dujo-Gutiérrez, Flor M Pérez-Campo 
World J Stem Cells 15(5):421-437. Published online May 26, 2023. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v15.i5.421
Minireviews
Basic Study