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Welcome to the World Journal of Orthopedics

World Journal of Orthopedics (WJOWorld J Orthop) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJO accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJO are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJO is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of orthopedics, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJO 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
  • Massimiliano Leigheb, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, (E-mail:massimiliano.leigheb@uniupo.it) S.C. Ortopedia e Traumatologia Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Maggiore della carità di Novara, Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Novara 28100, Italy
  • Xiao-Jian Ye, MD, Chief Physician, (E-mail:yexj2002@163.com) Department of Orthopedics, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200233, China
Indexing/Abstracting
WJO is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science), Scopus, 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 WJO as 2.0; JIF without journal self cites: 1.9; 5-year JIF: 2.3; JIF Rank: 49/136 in orthopedics; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJO’s CiteScore for 2023 is 3.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Orthopedics and sports medicine is 132/321.

ISSN
2218-5836 (online)
Editorial
Minireviews
Naveen Jeyaraman, Madhan Jeyaraman, Priya Dhanpal, Swaminathan Ramasubramanian, Lavanya Ragavanandam, Sathish Muthu, Gabriel Silva Santos, Lucas Furtado da Fonseca, José Fábio Lana 
World J Orthop 15(12):1135-1145. Published online Dec 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i12.1135
Case Control Study
Samir Ghandour, Anton Lebedev, Wei-Shao Tung, Konstantin Semianov, Artem Semjanow, Christopher W DiGiovanni, Soheil Ashkani-Esfahani, Lorena Bejarano Pineda 
World J Orthop 15(12):1146-1154. Published online Dec 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i12.1146
Retrospective Cohort Study
Yuki Ishibashi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Toshihiko Ando, Kouichi Okajima, Takahiro Oki, Yusuke Tsuda, Yusuke Shinoda, Ryoko Sawada, Sakae Tanaka 
World J Orthop 15(12):1155-1163. Published online Dec 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i12.1155
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Puthumanapully Vinod Kumar, Subin Sugath, Vijay Mohan, Ashok Kumar Moharana, Sachin Angrish, Deepak TS 
World J Orthop 15(12):1183-1190. Published online Dec 18, 2024. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v15.i12.1183
Randomized Controlled Trial
Scientometrics
Case Report