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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
  • Ke-Qin Hu, MD, Professor, (E-mail: kqhu@uci.edu) Div Gastroenterol and Hepatol, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92617, United States
  • Joseph K Lim, MD, Professor, (E-mail: joseph.lim@yale.edu) Yale Viral Hepatitis Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
  • Nikolaos T Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: pyrsopni@njms.rutgers.edu) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, United States
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
Tatsuo Kanda, Reina Sasaki-Tanaka, Takeshi Yokoo, Kazunao Hayashi, Hiroteru Kamimura, Atsunori Tsuchiya, Shuji Terai 
World J Hepatol 17(4):99899. Published online Apr 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.99899
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Thomas Worland, Penelope Hey, Darren Wong, Ross Apostolov, Roseanne Kimberley Chan, Marie Sinclair, Paul Gow 
World J Hepatol 17(4):104056. Published online Apr 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.104056
Retrospective Study
Shuichiro Iwasaki, Akira Také, Haruki Uojima, Kazue Horio, Yoshihiko Sakaguchi, Kazuyoshi Gotoh, Takashi Satoh, Hisashi Hidaka, Yasuhito Tanaka, Shunji Hayashi, Chika Kusano 
World J Hepatol 17(4):102027. Published online Apr 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.102027
Observational Study
Systematic Reviews
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Stephan Drexler, Frederic Haedge, Susanne N Weber, Marcin Krawczyk, Matthias S Matter, Carol I Geppert, Achim Weber, Bruno Stieger, Christian Trautwein, Andreas E Kremer 
World J Hepatol 17(4):92426. Published online Apr 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.92426
Nicolás Ortiz-López, Maximiliano Acevedo, Tamara Vergara, Juan Pablo Roblero, Álvaro Urzúa, Máximo Cattaneo, Jaime Poniachik 
World J Hepatol 17(4):98660. Published online Apr 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.98660
Letter to the Editor
Mariana M Ramírez-Mejía, Froylan D Martínez-Sánchez, Jacqueline Córdova-Gallardo, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez 
World J Hepatol 17(4):105254. Published online Apr 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105254