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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 >>
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- 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
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The WJH’s CiteScore for 2023 is 4.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Hepatology is 41/82.ISSN
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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
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David Jerez Diaz, Patrick Twohig
World J Hepatol
17(4):105583.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105583
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Minireviews
Luciana Agoglia, Maria Chiara Chindamo, Cristiane Villela-Nogueira
World J Hepatol
17(4):102978.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.102978
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Received: 11/03/2024
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Dmitry V Garbuzenko
World J Hepatol
17(4):105127.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105127
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Ting Liu, He Wang, Yue Zhao, Ying-Xin Wang, Xue Xing, Peng Gao
World J Hepatol
17(4):105797.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105797
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Retrospective Cohort Study
Thomas Worland, Penelope Hey, Darren Wong, Ross Apostolov, Roseanne Kimberley Chan, Marie Sinclair, Paul Gow
World J Hepatol
17(4):104056.
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doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.104056
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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.
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Hima Veeramachaneni, Bobak Moazzami, Navila Sharif, Emad Qayed, Lesley S Miller
World J Hepatol
17(4):105065.
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doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105065
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Observational Study
Yi-Zhi Pan, Wan-Ting Chen, Hao-Ran Jin, Zhen Liu, Ying-Ying Gu, Xin-Ruo Wang, Jue Wang, Jing-Jing Lin, Yan Zhou, Lan-Man Xu
World J Hepatol
17(4):105660.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105660
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Systematic Reviews
Xiao Wang, Ming-Xiang Zhu, Jun-Feng Wang, Pan Liu, Li-Yuan Zhang, You Zhou, Xi-Xiang Lin, Ying-Dong Du, Kun-Lun He
World J Hepatol
17(4):103330.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.103330
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Received: 11/15/2024
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Iyiad Alabdul Razzak, Hind El Naamani, Dimo Dimitrov, Rebecca Morin, Bertrand L Jaber
World J Hepatol
17(4):105120.
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doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.105120
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Meta-Analysis
Xiao-Tong Xu, Min-Jie Jiang, Yun-Lai Fu, Fang Xie, Jian-Jun Li, Qing-Hua Meng
World J Hepatol
17(4):104890.
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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.
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Nicolás Ortiz-López, Maximiliano Acevedo, Tamara Vergara, Juan Pablo Roblero, Álvaro Urzúa, Máximo Cattaneo, Jaime Poniachik
World J Hepatol
17(4):98660.
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Letter to the Editor
Athanasios Tselebis, Lina Zabuliene, Ioannis Ilias
World J Hepatol
17(4):101910.
Published online Apr 27, 2025.
doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.101910
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Fei-Yong Cheng, Cong Chen, Feng-Yong Wang, Bo-Huan Zhao
World J Hepatol
17(4):104622.
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doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i4.104622
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World J Hepatol
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