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Welcome to the World Journal of Diabetes

World Journal of Diabetes (WJDWorld J Diabetes) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJD accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJD are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJD is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of diabetes, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJD 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
  • Lu Cai, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: l0cai001@louisville.edu) Pediatric Research Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, United States
  • Michael Horowitz, DSc, FRACP, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: michael.horowitz@adelaide.edu.au) Department of Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide 5005, Australia
  • Md. Shahidul Islam, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: islamd@ukzn.ac.za) Department of Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJD is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJD as 4.2; JIF without journal self cites: 4.1; 5-year JIF: 4.2; JIF Rank: 40/186 in endocrinology and metabolism; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

ISSN
1948-9358 (online)
Editorial
Minireviews
Georgi Vasilev, Maria Kokudeva, Elina Siliogka, Nathalia Padilla, Russka Shumnalieva, David Della-Morte, Camillo Ricordi, Antoaneta Mihova, Marco Infante, Tsvetelina Velikova 
World J Diabetes 16(4):99936. Published online Apr 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i4.99936
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Kunimasa Yagi, Daisuke Chujo, Isao Usui, Jian-Hui Liu, Atsushi Nohara, Asako Enkaku Shirozu, Akiko Takikawa, Hisae Honoki, Shiho Fujisaka, Hideki Origasa, Hayato Tada 
World J Diabetes 16(4):103551. Published online Apr 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i4.103551
Retrospective Study
Di-Ni Lin, Dan Li, Meng-Meng Peng, Hong Yang, Zhen-Zhen Lin, En-Ling Ye, Wen-Ting Chen, Meng-Xue Zhou, Xian-En Huang, Xue-Mian Lu 
World J Diabetes 16(4):101384. Published online Apr 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i4.101384
Observational Study
Rui Wang, Yu-Xian Xu, Feng Xu, Chun-Hua Wang, Li-Hua Zhao, Li-Hua Wang, Wei-Guan Chen, Xue-Qin Wang, Cheng-Wei Duan, Jian-Bin Su 
World J Diabetes 16(4):101966. Published online Apr 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i4.101966
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Guang-Yong Li, Shuai Ren, Bin-Cheng Huang, Jia-Jin Feng, Qiang-Qiang Wang, Qing-Jie Peng, Hai-Fu Tian, Le-Yi Yu, Cun-Ling Ma, Shu-Zhe Fan, Xiao-Jiang Chen, Mohammed Abdulkarem Al-Qaisi, Rui He 
World J Diabetes 16(4):96176. Published online Apr 15, 2025. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v16.i4.96176
Systematic Reviews
Letter to the Editor