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Welcome to the World Journal of Hepatology

World Journal of Hepatology (WJH, World J Hepatol) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing clinical, basic, and translational research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical in the fields of hepatology. 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. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJH is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. 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: nikolaos.pyrsopoulos@nyulangone.org) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health Transplant Insitute, New York, NY 10016, 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 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2024 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJH as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.5; 5-year JIF: 3.0; JIF Rank: 68/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJH’s CiteScore for 2024 is 4.8 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Hepatology is 38/87. 

ISSN
1948-5182 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (296), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (35 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (39.5%/Mean), Production Time (40 days/Mean), Time to Publication (139 days/Mean), and Rejected (17.9%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Francesco Cortese, Fotis Anagnostopoulos, Maria Vittoria Bazzocchi, Silvio Caringi, Antonio Rosario Pisani, Matteo Renzulli, Ioannis Paraskevopoulos, Letizia Laera, Alessia Surgo, Stavros Spiliopoulos, Riccardo Memeo, Riccardo Inchingolo 
World J Hepatol 17(8):107873. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i8.107873
Santiago Rodriguez, Maria Luiza Fernandes Dahlem, Carina Rossoni, Norma P Marroni, Claudio A Marroni, Sabrina Alves Fernandes 
World J Hepatol 17(8):108182. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i8.108182
Minireviews
Mina'a Shahid, Kiran Hilal, Memoona Khan, Zainab Haider Ejaz, Sadaf Altaf, Saleem Islam, Kumail Khandwala 
World J Hepatol 17(8):107041. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i8.107041
Case Control Study
Kent W Sabatose, Alexandra Baker, Kevin Kugler, Jude Delikat, Bethany Jowers, Ambuj Kumar, Sadaf Aslam, Jacentha Buggs, Christine Machado-Denis, Nyingi Kemmer, Kiran Dhanireddy, Rashid Syed 
World J Hepatol 17(8):108677. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i8.108677
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Basic Study
Lan-Lan Si, Zhen-Ping Fan, Wen-Hui Liu, Rong-Juan Chen, Xue-Yuan Chen, Dong Ji, Le Li, Chun Chen, Hao Liao, Jun Wang, Dong-Ping Xu, Jun Zhao, Yan Liu 
World J Hepatol 17(8):107456. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i8.107456
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Xiao-Xin Gao, Xin-Xin Xu, Peng Chen, Tian-Xiao He, Cheng-Zhou Du, Qian Zhou, Guang-Fu Zhou, Xiao-Wei Guo, Jun-Rui Peng, Hong-Tao Li 
World J Hepatol 17(8):110413. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i8.110413
Letter to the Editor