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Welcome to the World Journal of Hepatology

World Journal of Hepatology (WJH, World J Hepatol) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing innovative, novel, and practical clinical, basic, and translational research achievements in the fields of hepatology. The types of articles published in WJH 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. The journal is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Ke-Qin Hu, MD, Professor, (E-mail: kqhu@uci.edu) Div Gastroenterol and Hepatol, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92617, United States
  • Joseph K Lim, MD, Professor, (E-mail: joseph.lim@yale.edu) Yale Viral Hepatitis Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
  • Nikolaos T Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: pyrsopni@njms.rutgers.edu) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJH 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 WJH as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.4; 5-year JIF: 2.7; JIF Rank: 72/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

The WJH’s CiteScore for 2024 is 4.8 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Hepatology is 38/87. 

ISSN
1948-5182 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (207), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (41 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (22 days/Mean), Accepted (19.8%/Mean), Production Time (41 days/Mean), Time to Publication (146 days/Mean), and Rejected (17.4%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Sayan Malakar, Sumit Rungta, Arghya Samanta, Umair Shamsul Hoda, Piyush Mishra, Gaurav Pande, Akash Roy, Suprabhat Giri, Praveer Rai, Samir Mohindra, Uday C Ghoshal 
World J Hepatol 17(5):104724. Published online May 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i5.104724
Minireviews
Grigorios Christodoulidis, Kyriaki Tsagkidou, Dimitra Bartzi, Ioana A Prisacariu, Eirini S Agko, Konstantinos E Koumarelas, Dimitrios Zacharoulis 
World J Hepatol 17(5):106182. Published online May 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i5.106182
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Matthew L Hung, Abhishek Jairam, Matthew Carr, Zachary T Berman, Michael Taddonio, Jeet Minocha, Hamed Aryafar, Jeffrey I Mondschein, Michael C Soulen, Gregory J Nadolski, Jonas Redmond 
World J Hepatol 17(5):106892. Published online May 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i5.106892
Clinical Trials Study
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Letter to the Editor