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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
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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: 123/290 in surgery; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
1948-9366 (online)
Editorial
Review
Jonathan GA Koo, Matthias Yi Quan Liau, Igor A Kryvoruchko, Tamer AAM Habeeb, Christopher Chia, Vishal G Shelat 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(7):1986-2002. Published online Jul 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.1986
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Xiang Liu, Yi-Feng Wang, Xiao-Hui Qi, Zhi-Lei Zhang, Jiang-Yang Pan, Xue-Li Fan, Yu Du, Ying-Min Zhai, Qi Wang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(7):2031-2039. Published online Jul 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.2031
Danielle Abbitt, Kevin Choy, Alexandra Kovar, Teresa S Jones, Krzysztof J Wikiel, Edward L Jones 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(7):2040-2046. Published online Jul 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.2040
Cheng-Ming Zhou, Jun Cao, Shao-Ke Chen, Tuerhongjiang Tuxun, Shadike Apaer, Jing Wu, Jin-Ming Zhao, Hao Wen 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(7):2047-2053. Published online Jul 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.2047
Xiao-Jun Wang, Ting Fei, Xiong-Hua Xiang, Quan Wang, En-Cheng Zhou 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(7):2202-2210. Published online Jul 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.2202
Observational Study
Vered Buchholz, Dong Kyu Lee, David S Liu, Ahmad Aly, Stephen A Barnett, Riley Hazard, Peter Le, Benjamin Kioussis, Vijayaragavan Muralidharan, Laurence Weinberg 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(7):2255-2269. Published online Jul 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i7.2255
Randomized Controlled Trial
Clinical and Translational Research
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Case Report
Letter to the Editor