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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology (WJGO, World J Gastrointest Oncol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJGO accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJGO are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJGO is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of gastrointestinal oncology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in the WJGO 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
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Monjur Ahmed, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FASGE, FRCP, MD, MRCP, Doctor, Editor-in-Chief, Full Professor, (E-mail: monjur.ahmed@jefferson.edu) Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
  • Florin Burada, MD, MSc, PhD, Doctor, Professor, Research Scientist, (E-mail: buradaflorin@gmail.com) Department of Medical Genetics and Human Genomics Laboratory, Research Center of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Craiova 200349, Romania
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJGO is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, 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 WJGO as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.5; 5-year JIF: 2.8; JIF Rank: 71/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJGO’s CiteScore for 2023 is 4.2 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Gastroenterology is 80/167; Oncology is 196/404.

ISSN
1948-5204 (online)
Editorial
Hai-Bo Yu, Ke-Feng Jia, Xing-Fen Wang, Bao-Yu Li, Qi Xin 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 16(11):4309-4314. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i11.4309
Grigorios Christodoulidis, Sara E Agko, Marina N Kouliou, Konstantinos E Koumarelas 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 16(11):4321-4325. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i11.4321
Review
Chen Zhang, Hu-Ke Dong, Jian-Ming Gao, Qi-Qi Zeng, Jiang-Tao Qiu, Jia-Jia Wang 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 16(11):4338-4353. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i11.4338
Run-Zhi Deng, Xin Zheng, Zhong-Lei Lu, Ming Yuan, Qi-Chang Meng, Tao Wu, Yu Tian 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 16(11):4354-4368. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i11.4354
Minireviews
Retrospective Study
De-Xiang Zhu, Miao Chen, Dong-Hao Xu, Guo-Dong He, Ping-Ping Xu, Qi Lin, Li Ren, Jian-Min Xu 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 16(11):4383-4391. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i11.4383
Dong-Xue Zhang, Zhan-Yue Niu, Ye Wang, Ming Zu, Ya-Han Wu, Yan-Yan Shi, He-Jun Zhang, Jing Zhang, Shi-Gang Ding 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 16(11):4424-4435. Published online Nov 15, 2024. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v16.i11.4424
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Scientometrics
Case Report
Letter to the Editor