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Hepatic fibrosis and subsequent cirrhosis caused by a variety of different etiologies, is a balance between fibrosis formation (fibrogenesis) and fibrinolysis.

Distribution frequency of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D in chronic hepatitis B patients and healthy controls.

The transition from a healthy liver to liver fibrosis.

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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, basic and clinical, 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, Basic Study, Clinical Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

2021 Published Issues

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Editors-in-Chief

Subrata Ghosh, AGAF, FCAHS, FRCP (C), FRCPC, FRCPE, MD, Full Professor, (E-mail: ghoshs@bham.ac.uk) Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham UB6 8TW, United Kingdom
Andrzej S Tarnawski, DSc, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail:atarnawski@yahoo.com) Gastroenterology Research Department, University of California Irvine and the Veterans Administration Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA 90822, United States

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The WJG is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports, Index Medicus, MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), and Superstar Journals Database.

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The 2020 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2019 impact factor (IF) for WJG as 3.665; IF without journal self cites: 3.534; 5-year IF: 4.048; Ranking: 35 among 88 journals in gastroenterology and hepatology; and Quartile category: Q2. The WJG’s CiteScore for 2019 is 7.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2019: Gastroenterology is 17/137.

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1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)

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Contents Volume 27 Issue 3 January 21, 2021

Editorial

Screening colonoscopy: The present and the future

Chelsea V Hayman, Dinesh Vyas

World J Gastroenterol 27(3):233-239. Published online Jan 21, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i3.233

Basic Study

Circular RNA AKT3 governs malignant behaviors of esophageal cancer cells by sponging miR-17-5p

Hong-Liang Zang, Fu-Jian Ji, Hai-Ying Ju, Xiao-Feng Tian

World J Gastroenterol 27(3):240-254. Published online Jan 21, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i3.240

Retrospective Study

Serum vitamin D and vitamin-D-binding protein levels in children with chronic hepatitis B

Cai-Zhi Huang, Jie Zhang, Lin Zhang, Cui-Hua Yu, Yi Mo, Li-Ya Mo

World J Gastroenterol 27(3):255-266. Published online Jan 21, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i3.255

Trends in the management of anorectal melanoma: A multi-institutional retrospective study and review of the world literature

Josh Bleicher, Jessica N Cohan, Lyen C Huang, William Peche, T Bartley Pickron, Courtney L Scaife, Tawnya L Bowles, John R Hyngstrom, Elliot A Asare

World J Gastroenterol 27(3):267-280. Published online Jan 21, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i3.267

Observational Study

Comparative study on artificial intelligence systems for detecting early esophageal squamous cell carcinoma between narrow-band and white-light imaging

Bing Li, Shi-Lun Cai, Wei-Min Tan, Ji-Chun Li, Ayimukedisi Yalikong, Xiao-Shuang Feng, Hon-Ho Yu, Pin-Xiang Lu, Zhen Feng, Li-Qing Yao, Ping-Hong Zhou, Bo Yan, Yun-Shi Zhong

World J Gastroenterol 27(3):281-293. Published online Jan 21, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i3.281

Case Report

Peritoneal dissemination of pancreatic cancer caused by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: A case report and literature review

Hideaki Kojima, Minoru Kitago, Eisuke Iwasaki, Yohei Masugi, Yohji Matsusaka, Hiroshi Yagi, Yuta Abe, Yasushi Hasegawa, Shutaro Hori, Masayuki Tanaka, Yutaka Nakano, Yusuke Takemura, Seiichiro Fukuhara, Yoshiyuki Ohara, Michiie Sakamoto, Shigeo Okuda, Yuko Kitagawa

World J Gastroenterol 27(3):294-304. Published online Jan 21, 2021. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i3.294