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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastroenterology

World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG, World J Gastroenterol) 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 gastroenterology and hepatology. 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. 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
21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Andrzej S Tarnawski, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: 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 2024 is 8.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Gastroenterology is 20/173.

ISSN
1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (1113), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (40 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (8.4%/Mean), Production Time (27 days/Mean), Time to Publication (134 days/Mean), and Rejected (65.4%/Mean).
Review
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Ming-Cong Deng, Ken Chen, Qi-Mei Bao, Yi-Xing Huang, Chun-Kai Zhang, Yu-Ke Zhong, Han-Yi He, Dan Zu, Chen Liang, Hai-Dong Liu, Yang-Chan Hu, Guo-Xia Liu, Yan-Hua He, Wei-Xing Wu, Jing-Nan Zhou, Yao-Shu Teng, Ji Jing, Yin Shi, Clive Yik-Sham Chung, Chen-Huan Yu, Yi-An Du, Zu Ye, Xiang-Dong Cheng 
World J Gastroenterol 31(21):107029. Published online Jun 7, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i21.107029
Observational Study
Basic Study
Meta-Analysis
Letter to the Editor
Md Sadique Hussain, Vikash Jakhmola, Kavita Goyal, Arcot Rekha, Ayesha Sultana, Haider Ali, Gaurav Gupta 
World J Gastroenterol 31(21):106530. Published online Jun 7, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i21.106530
Arnulfo E Morales-Galicia, Mariana N Rincón-Sánchez, Mariana M Ramírez-Mejía, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez 
World J Gastroenterol 31(21):106808. Published online Jun 7, 2025. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v31.i21.106808