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Welcome to the World Journal of Clinical Cases

World Journal of Clinical Cases (WJCC, World J Clin Cases) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJCC accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJCC are high-quality, influential clinical cases and clinical research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJCC is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of clinical medicine, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJCC include Case Report, Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, and Letter to the Editor. Submit here >>

2024 Published Issues
Editors-in-Chief
  • Jerzy Tadeusz Chudek, MD, Academic Research, Full Professor, (E-mail: chj@poczta.fm) Department of Internal Diseases and Oncological Chemotherapy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice 40-027, Poland
  • George Kontogeorgos, MD, PhD, Additional Professor, Research Associate, (E-mail: gkonto@med.uoa.gr) Department of Pathology and Pituitary Tumor Reference Center, Division of Endocrinology, First Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 115 27, Greece
  • Bao-Gan Peng, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, (E-mail: pengbaogan@163.com)Department of Spinal Surgery, General Hospital of Armed Police Force, Beijing 100039, China
  • Maurizio Serati, MD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Insubria, Varese 21100, Italy
  • Salim Surani, FACP, FCCP, MD, MHSc, MPhil, Full Professor, Department of Pharmacy & Medicine, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX 78405, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJCC is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine, 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 WJCC as 1.0; JIF without journal self cites: 0.9; 5-year JIF: 1.1; JIF Rank: 168/325 in medicine, general and internal; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
2307-8960 (online)
Editorial
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Clinical Trials Study
Observational Study
Prospective Study
Ying Shao, Mei Zhang, Li-Jun Sun, Hong-Wei Zhang, An Liu, Xi Wang, Ruo-Lei Xin, Jian-Wei Li, Jiang-Zhu Ye, Yue Gao, Zhang-Li Wang, Zai-Cun Li, Tong Zhang 
World J Clin Cases 12(22):5042-5050. Published online Aug 6, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i22.5042
Randomized Clinical Trial
Xin Yang, Zeng-Xiang Wang, Yu-Xing Tian, Chao Peng, Hui-Ning Yang, Ying Wu 
World J Clin Cases 12(22):5051-5058. Published online Aug 6, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i22.5051
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Toshiaki Toshima, Ryo Inada, Shinya Sakamoto, Eri Takeda, Takahiro Yoshioka, Kento Kumon, Naoki Mimura, Nobuo Takata, Motoyasu Tabuchi, Kazuyuki Oishi, Takuji Sato, Kenta Sui, Takehiro Okabayashi, Kazuhide Ozaki, Toshio Nakamura, Yuichi Shibuya, Manabu Matsumoto, Jun Iwata 
World J Clin Cases 12(22):5217-5224. Published online Aug 6, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i22.5217
Chao-Jian Pang, Xiao-Yan Huo, Yuan Liu, Zong-You Yang, Lu Liu, Xiao-Bo Fan, Shang-Wen Xu 
World J Clin Cases 12(22):5236-5244. Published online Aug 6, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i22.5236