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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, 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 gastrointestinal oncology. The types of articles published in 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. 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
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Monjur Ahmed, MD, Associate Professor, (E-mail: monjur.ahmed@jefferson.edu) Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
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: 72/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJGO’s CiteScore for 2024 is 3.3 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Gastroenterology is 89/173; Oncology is 235/415. 

ISSN
1948-5204 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (343), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (37 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (22 days/Mean), Accepted (27.1%/Mean), Production Time (53 days/Mean), Time to Publication (157 days/Mean), and Rejected (32.7%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Jun-Nan Liao, Wen-Juan Ni, Ping-Hui Wu, Ya-Dong Yang, Ying Yang, Wen Long, Mei-Zhen Xie, Xiu-Zhi Zhu, Fu-Hua Xie, Xiao-Min Leng 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):104076. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.104076
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Yusuf Ilhan, Onur Yazdan Balcik, Halil Goksel Guzel, Arif Hakan Onder, Bilgin Demir, Mehmet Nuri Baser, Ibrahim Karadag, Mehmet Fatih Ozbay, Tugrul Burak Genc, Sahnura Uzuntas, Oguz Poyrazoglu, Ismail Beypinar, Yakup Ergun, Banu Ozturk 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):104341. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.104341
Makoto Saito, Yoshitaka Oda, Hirokazu Sugino, Toma Suzuki, Emi Yokoyama, Minoru Kanaya, Koh Izumiyama, Akio Mori, Masanobu Morioka, Takeshi Kondo 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):105448. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.105448
Hai-Bin Tu, Si-Yi Feng, Li-Hong Chen, Yu-Jie Huang, Ju-Zhen Zhang, Su-Yu Peng, Ding-Luan Lin, Xiao-Jian Ye 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):105872. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.105872
Basic Study
Yu-Xing Tang, Wei-Zi Wu, Sheng-Sheng Zhou, Da-Tong Zeng, Guang-Cai Zheng, Rong-Quan He, Di-Yuan Qin, Wan-Ying Huang, Ji-Tian Chen, Yi-Wu Dang, Yu-Lu Tang, Bang-Teng Chi, Yan-Ting Zhan, Gang Chen 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):103594. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.103594
Zi-Jun Chen, Xiang-Kun Wang, Chuang-Ye Han, Yong-Fei He, Tian-Yi Liang, Shu-Tian Mo, Guang-Zhi Zhu, Cheng-Kun Yang, Xin-Ping Ye, Zi-Li Lv, Shi-Fu Pang, Xiao-Dong Chen, Peng Wang, Tao Peng 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):105311. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.105311
Systematic Reviews
Meta-Analysis
Scientometrics
Case Report
Wen-Jian Tang, Shu-Hua Luo, Zhen Wu, Yuan Kang, Bo Lan, Zhi-Qiang Zhang, Jun-Yuan Zhong, Jian-Ping Zhong, Chun-Ju Wen 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(5):104802. Published online May 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i5.104802
Letter to the Editor