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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 >>

2024 Published Issues
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Andrzej S Tarnawski, DSc, MD, PhD, Professor, 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 2023 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2022 impact factor (IF) for WJG as 4.3; IF without journal self cites: 4.1; 5-year IF: 5.3; Journal Citation Indicator: 0.82; Ranking: 33 among 93 journals in gastroenterology and hepatology; and Quartile category: Q2. The WJG’s CiteScore for 2021 is 8.3 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2022: Gastroenterology is 22/149.
ISSN
1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)
Editorial
Grigorios Christodoulidis, Koumarelas Konstantinos-Eleftherios, Kouliou Marina-Nektaria 
World J Gastroenterol 30(10):1266-1269. Published online Mar 14, 2024. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i10.1266
Review
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Nobukazu Agatsuma, Takahiro Utsumi, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Takahiro Horimatsu, Takeshi Seta, Yukitaka Yamashita, Yukari Tanaka, Takahiro Inoue, Yuki Nakanishi, Takahiro Shimizu, Mikako Ohno, Akane Fukushima, Takeo Nakayama, Hiroshi Seno 
World J Gastroenterol 30(10):1368-1376. Published online Mar 14, 2024. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i10.1368
Observational Study
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Shu-Hao Zhang, Yue-Bin Zhang, Duo-Te Cai, Tao Pan, Ken Chen, Yi Jin, Wen-Juan Luo, Zong-Wei Huang, Qing-Jiang Chen, Zhi-Gang Gao 
World J Gastroenterol 30(10):1420-1430. Published online Mar 14, 2024. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i10.1420
Meta-Analysis
Letter to the Editor