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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 >>

2024 Published Issues
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Lu Cai, MD, PhD, Professor, 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, BSc, MSc, PhD, Professor, 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
Expert Consensus
Ji-Wei Shen, Chun-Yong Ji, Xue-Dong Fang, Bo Yang, Tian Zhang, Zheng-Cai Li, Hua-Zhi Li, Zhi-Yi Liu, Jun Tang, Chuan-Wen Liao, Ji-Zhou Lu, Xuan Yang, Xin-Guo Zhang 
World J Diabetes 15(11):2182-2188. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v15.i11.2182
Review
Wen-Jie Sun, Xue-Dong An, Yue-Hong Zhang, Shan-Shan Tang, Yu-Ting Sun, Xiao-Min Kang, Lin-Lin Jiang, Xue-Fei Zhao, Qing Gao, Hang-Yu Ji, Feng-Mei Lian 
World J Diabetes 15(11):2189-2202. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v15.i11.2189
Basic Study
Letter to the Editor