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

2020 Published Issues

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Editors-in-Chief

Ke-Qin Hu, FAASLD, MD, Director, Professor, (E-mail: kqhu@uci.edu) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, United States
Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: kjkang@dsmc.or.kr) Division of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Department of surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Medical Center, Daegu 41931, South Korea
Nikolaos T Pyrsopoulos, FACP, FRCP (C), MD, PhD, Director, Professor, Research Scientist, (Email: pyrsopni@njms.rutgers.edu) Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, United States

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The WJH is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science), Scopus, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), and Superstar Journals Database.

Journal Metrics

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) (2015): 0.858; IPP (Impact per Publication) (2015): 2.730; SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) (2015): 1.206; and CiteScore (2016): 3.66.

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1948-5182 (online)

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Contents Volume 12 Issue 3 March 27, 2020

Review

Polycystic liver disease: Classification, diagnosis, treatment process, and clinical management

Ze-Yu Zhang, Zhi-Ming Wang, Yun Huang

World J Hepatol 12(3):72-83. Published online Mar 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i3.72

Basic Study

High omega arachidonic acid/docosahexaenoic acid ratio induces mitochondrial dysfunction and altered lipid metabolism in human hepatoma cells

Reem Ghazali, Kosha J Mehta, SW Annie Bligh, Ihab Tewfik, Dahn Clemens, Vinood B Patel

World J Hepatol 12(3):84-98. Published online Mar 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i3.84

Retrospective Study

Platelet-albumin-bilirubin score - a predictor of outcome of acute variceal bleeding in patients with cirrhosis

Omar Elshaarawy, Naglaa Allam, Eman Abdelsameea, Asmaa Gomaa, Imam Waked

World J Hepatol 12(3):99-107. Published online Mar 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i3.99

Case Report

Successful liver transplantation for acute sickle cell intrahepatic cholestasis: A case report and review of the literature

Motasem Alkhayyat, Mohannad Abou Saleh, Mohammad Zmaili, Vedha Sanghi, Tavankit Singh, Carol Rouphael, C Roberto Simons-Linares, Carlos Romero-Marrero, William D Carey, Christina C Lindenmeyer

World J Hepatol 12(3):108-115. Published online Mar 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i3.108