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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (WJGSWorld J Gastrointest Surg) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJGS accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJGS are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJGS is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of gastrointestinal surgery, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJGS 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
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Peter Schemmer, FACS, MD, PhD, Chairman, Full Professor, Professor, (E-mail: peter.schemmer@medunigraz.at) Department of General, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Styria, Austria
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJGS 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 WJGS as 1.8; JIF without journal self cites: 1.7; 5-year JIF: 1.9; JIF Rank: 126/292 in surgery; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
1948-9366 (online)
Editorial
Rui Ma, Pei-Qiang Jiang, Song-Yang Liu, Ding-Quan Yang, Yan Jiao 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3643-3646. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3643
Minireviews
Yong-Qing Ye, Pei-Heng Li, Qing Wu, Shang-Lin Yang, Bao-Ding Zhuang, Ya-Wen Cao, Zhan-Yi Xiao, Shun-Qian Wen 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3666-3674. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3666
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Jian-Xin Peng, Hui-Long Li, Qing Ye, Jia-Qiang Mo, Jian-Yi Wang, Zhang-Yuanzhu Liu, Jun-Ming He 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3685-3693. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3685
Retrospective Study
Xian-Yong Wang, Yi-Lei Zhao, Sha-Sha Wen, Xiao-Yu Song, Lu Mo, Zhi-Wei Xiao 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3764-3771. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3764
Guo-Dong Xing, Xian-Qiang Wang, Lian Duan, Gang Liu, Zheng Wang, Yuan-Hong Xiao, Qiao Xia, Hua-Wei Xie, Zhou Shen, Zhen-Zhu Yu, Liu-Ming Huang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3780-3785. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3780
Observational Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Basic Study
Case Report
Sami Alharbi, Noura Alturaif, Yehia Mostafa, Abdullah Alfhaid, Ali Albenmousa, Saad Alghamdi 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3875-3880. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3875
Letter to the Editor
Francisco J Morera-Ocon, Clara Navarro-Campoy, John Deiver Cardona-Henao, Francisco Landete-Molina 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3890-3894. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3890
Amal Diab Ghanem Atalla, Abdulqadir J Nashwan 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(12):3899-3902. Published online Dec 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i12.3899