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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 clinical, basic, and translational research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical 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. WJH is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
6 5 4 3 2 1
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 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2024 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJH as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.5; 5-year JIF: 3.0; JIF Rank: 68/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

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 (231), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (38 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (25.5%/Mean), Production Time (40 days/Mean), Time to Publication (143 days/Mean), and Rejected (17.3%/Mean).
Review
Shuo-Feng Li, Xu Ouyang, Shi Feng, Ming-Zhong Wan, Kai-Nan Zhou, Bo-Yuan Wen, Yu-Ze Yin, Hang Yi, Xin-Yuan Chen 
World J Hepatol 17(6):106932. Published online Jun 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i6.106932
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Fernando Siguencia, Michitaka Matsuda, Vijay Pandyarajan, Sunao Tanaka, Steven M Smith, Catherine Bresee, Ekihiro Seki, Charles J Rosser, Hideki Furuya 
World J Hepatol 17(6):106481. Published online Jun 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i6.106481
Yuntae Kim, Kazuhiro Ishikawa, Kenji Nakamura, Hikaru Ikusaka, Ryohsuke Yokosuka, Tomohiro Yamazaki, Yuichiro Suzuki, Shuhei Okuyama, Koichi Takagi, Katsuyuki Fukuda 
World J Hepatol 17(6):108100. Published online Jun 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i6.108100
Retrospective Study
Krystyna Dobrowolska, Dorota Zarębska-Michaluk, Malgorzata Pawłowska, Magdalena Tudrujek-Zdunek, Beata Lorenc, Hanna Berak, Ewa Janczewska, Włodzimierz Mazur, Justyna Janocha-Litwin, Jakub Klapaczyński, Marek Sitko, Dorota Dybowska, Anna Parfieniuk-Kowerda, Anna Piekarska, Jerzy Jaroszewicz, Robert Flisiak 
World J Hepatol 17(6):105899. Published online Jun 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i6.105899
Observational Study
Yi Sun, Ping Huang, Xiao-Qin Zhao, Zhu-Qi Tang, Tong-Tong Xu, Xin-Wei Wang, Zong-Xian Qi, Wei-Rong Lin, Min-You Li, Yun-Juan Gu 
World J Hepatol 17(6):104693. Published online Jun 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i6.104693
Basic Study
Yu-Shu Yang, Xian-Rui Li, Zhi-Min Wang, Lin Zheng, Jin-Long Li, Xiao-Lin Cui, Yan-Biao Song, Jun-Ji Ma, Hui-Fang Guo, Li-Xia Gao, Xiao-Hui Zhou 
World J Hepatol 17(6):104073. Published online Jun 27, 2025. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v17.i6.104073
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Letter to the Editor