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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastroenterology

World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG, World J Gastroenterol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJG accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJG are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJG is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of gastroenterology and hepatology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJG 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 >>

2025 Published Issues
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Andrzej S Tarnawski, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: atarnawski@yahoo.com) Department of Gastroenterology Research, University of California Irvine and The Veterans Administration Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA 90822, United States
Indexing/Abstracting

The WJG is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJG as 4.3; JIF without journal self cites: 4.2; 5-year JIF: 5.1; JIF Rank: 30/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q1.

The WJG’s CiteScore for 2023 is 7.8 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Gastroenterology is 25/167.

ISSN
1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)
Opinion Review
Case Control Study
Juan Carlos Andreu-Ballester, Carolina Hurtado-Marcos, Carlos García-Ballesteros, Jaime Pérez-Griera, Fernando Izquierdo, Dolores Ollero, Ana Jiménez, Rafael Gil-Borrás, Antonio Llombart-Cussac, Francisca López-Chuliá, Carmen Cuéllar 
World J Gastroenterol 31(12):97120. Published online Mar 28, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i12.97120
Xiao Li, Xiao-Bin Zhang, Jia-Kang Shao, Bo Zhang, Long-Song Li, Rui-Qing Zhu, Jia-Le Zou, Jia-Feng Wang, Xin Zhao, Qing-Zhen Wu, Ning-Li Chai, En-Qiang Linghu 
World J Gastroenterol 31(12):99846. Published online Mar 28, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i12.99846
Retrospective Cohort Study
Noelia Sala-Miquel, José Carrasco-Muñoz, Soledad Bernabeu-Mira, Carolina Mangas-Sanjuan, Sandra Baile-Maxía, Lucía Madero-Velázquez, Victor Ausina, Ana Yuste, Lucía Gómez-González, Manuel Romero Simó, Pedro Zapater, Rodrigo Jover 
World J Gastroenterol 31(12):100155. Published online Mar 28, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i12.100155
Chen Qiu, Yu-Kai Xiang, Hai Hu, Xuan-Bo Da, Gang Li, Yue-Yi Zhang, Hong-Lei Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Yu-Long Yang 
World J Gastroenterol 31(12):100855. Published online Mar 28, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i12.100855
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
I Nengah Sujaya, Mariyatun Mariyatun, Pratama Nur Hasan, Nancy Eka Putri Manurung, Putrika Citta Pramesi, Mohammad Juffrie, Tyas Utami, Muhammad Nur Cahyanto, Shuta Yamamoto, Takuya Takahashi, Takashi Asahara, Takuya Akiyama, Endang Sutriswati Rahayu 
World J Gastroenterol 31(12):104081. Published online Mar 28, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i12.104081
Basic Study
Shadikchhya Maya Bhattarai, Ashwin Jhawer, Gabriel Frampton, Eleonora Troyanovskaya, Sharon DeMorrow, Matthew McMillin 
World J Gastroenterol 31(12):103952. Published online Mar 28, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i12.103952
Meta-Analysis
Letter to the Editor