In 2018, the World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG) has published the 10^th issue which containing 10 articles including 1 review, and 9 original articles contributed by scientists worldwide. Among these comprehensive articles are (1) “Inflammatory bowel disease registries for collection of patient iron parameters in Europe”, a minireviews by Jonas Halfvarson, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, et al from Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, Sweden; (2) “Sex disparity in viral load, inflammation and liver damage in transgenic mice carrying full hepatitis B virus genome with the W4P mutation in the preS1 region”, a basic study by Bum-Joon Kim, PhD, Professor, et al from Department of Biomedical Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, and Liver Research Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine, South Korea; and (3) “Progesterone receptor membrane component 1 as a potential prognostic biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma”, a clinical practice study by Hung-Wen Tsai, MD, Associate Professor, et al from Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, etc. We invite you to peruse all 10 articles in this issue, as they present the latest research progress/findings and provide insightful comments in gastroenterology and hepatology that will guide basic research and clinical practice in these fields.

This journal is an open-access journal which allows free immediate access to all full-text articles. For details, please visit: Volume 24, Issue 10, March 14, 2018.

Figure 1 The cover of the issue. Editorial board member of World Journal of Gastroenterology, Georgios Tsoulfas, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 66 Tsimiski St, Thessaloniki 54622, Greece

We encourage gastroenterologists and hepatologists worldwide to submit manuscripts to the WJG describing their original basic or clinical research findings that are of high academic value and which report new diagnostic techniques or summarize their treatment experiences.

We invited the readers to download and read the E-Journal of this issue.