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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (WJGS, World J Gastrointest Surg) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing clinical, basic, and translational research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical in the fields of gastrointestinal surgery. 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. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJGS is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >> 

2025 Published Issues
8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Eva Lieto, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, (E-mail: eva.lieto@unicampania.it) Traslazional Medicine, Vanvitelli University, Napoli, NA 80132, Italy
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 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2024 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJGS as 1.7; JIF without journal self cites: 1.6; 5-year JIF: 2.0; JIF Rank: 148/312 in surgery; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2; JIF Rank: 103/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
1948-9366 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (574), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (32 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (28 days/Mean), Accepted (42.7%/Mean), Production Time (49 days/Mean), Time to Publication (141 days/Mean), and Rejected (29.4%/Mean).
Editorial
Manuel Carmo Silva, Tiago Correia de Sá, Kayla P Pereira, Joana M Pisco 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):101227. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.101227
Thai-Hau Koo, Xue-Bin Leong, Yi-Lin Lee, Firdaus Hayati, Mohd Hazeman Zakaria, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):102921. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.102921
Zong-Yang Li, Zhi-Cheng Liu, Yu-Ning Gao, Ying Zhao, Chun-Hua Bai, Peng Xiao, Di-Fei Wang, Hong-Qiao Cai 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):106860. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.106860
Minireviews
Pablo Duarte Rodrigues, Gabriel Lazzarotto-da-Silva, Flávia Heinz Feier, Tomaz J M Grezzana Filho, Cleber Rosito Pinto Kruel, Ian Leipnitz, Marcio Fernandes Chedid 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):107941. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.107941
Sheng Wu, Ye Zheng, Jiang-Wei Mou, Yan-Jun Zhang, Ke-Xiang Zhu 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):108312. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.108312
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Adnan Alzanbagi, Laeeque A Qureshi, Mohammed S Khan, Salem Alotaibi, Abdulaziz Tashkhandi, Saad Alzahrani, Mahmoud A Eliouny, Aly ElBahrawy, AlWahhaj Khogeer, Mohammed Hazazi, Suhail Hezry, Feras Fatani, Mohammed K Shariff 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):105607. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.105607
Yuki Horio, Motoi Uchino, Yusuke Tomoo, Kazunori Nomura, Kentaro Nagano, Kurando Kusunoki, Ryuichi Kuwahara, Kei Kimura, Toshiyuki Sato, Kozo Kataoka, Masataka Igeta, Shinichiro Shinzaki, Masataka Ikeda, Hiroki Ikeuchi 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):109326. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.109326
Observational Study
Run-Nan Zhang, Jian-Yong Cui, Zhong-Hua Zhao, Ya-Tong Li, Zhi-Wei Liu, Ji-Yue Zhang, Qiang Wei, Yan-Min Lu, Qiang-Pu Chen 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):107209. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.107209
Watson Hua-Sheng Tseng, Shu-Chun Huang, Stewart C Wang, Jules Lin, Peng Zhang, Yu-Chen Liu, Yin-Kai Chao, Chien-Hung Chiu 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):108600. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.108600
Prospective Study
Jin-Feng Zhou, Wei Qiu, Jian-Sheng Chen, Bao-Quan Yan, Xiao-Hui Feng, Mei-Zhen Xu, Ji-Ping Yang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):109155. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.109155
Randomized Controlled Trial
Systematic Reviews
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Fen-Ming Zhang, Long-Gui Ning, Jing-Jie Wang, Hua-Tuo Zhu, Mei-Bao Feng, Hong-Tan Chen 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):107558. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.107558
Sheng-Wei Wu, Yao Rong, Gui-Jin Chen, Xu-Song Cao, Zheng-Yong Xie, Bei Wu, Hao-Chun Huang, Zhi-Wei Wang, Xiao-Xiang Wu 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(8):108963. Published online Aug 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i8.108963
Letter to the Editor