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Welcome to the World Journal of Diabetes

World Journal of Diabetes (WJDWorld J Diabetes) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJD accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJD are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJD is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of diabetes, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJD 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
3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Lu Cai, MD, PhD, Professor, Pediatric Research Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, United States
  • Michael Horowitz, DSc, FRACP, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: michael.horowitz@adelaide.edu.au) Department of Medicine, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide 5005, Australia
  • Md. Shahidul Islam, BSc, MSc, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4000, South Africa
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJD is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

The 2023 Edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2022 impact factor (IF) for WJD as 4.2; IF without journal self cites: 4.1; 5-year IF: 4.5; Journal Citation Indicator: 0.69; Ranking: 51 among 145 journals in endocrinology and metabolism; and Quartile category: Q2.

ISSN
1948-9358 (online)
Editorial
Review
Saleh Fahad Alqifari, Omar Alkomi, Abdullah Esmail, Khadijeh Alkhawami, Shahd Yousri, Mohamad Ayham Muqresh, Nawwarah Alharbi, Abdullah A Khojah, Ahmed Aljabri, Abdulrahman Allahham, Kousalya Prabahar, Hanan Alshareef, Mohammed Aldhaeefi, Tariq Alrasheed, Ali Alrabiah, Laila A AlBishi 
World J Diabetes 15(3):331-347. Published online Mar 15, 2024. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v15.i3.331
Minireviews
Case Control Study
Retrospective Study
Saleh Fahad Alqifari, Aya K Esmail, Dalal M Alarifi, Ghalya Y Alsuliman, Maram M Alhati, May R Mutlaq, Mohammed Aldhaeefi, Shaden A Alshuaibi, Palanisamy Amirthalingam, Abrar Abdallah, Afaf S Wasel, Heba R Hamad, Shoroq Alamin, Tasneem H Atia, Tariq Alqahtani 
World J Diabetes 15(3):440-454. Published online Mar 15, 2024. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v15.i3.440
Observational Study
Ahmed Eldib, Shilton Dhaver, Karim Kibaa, Astrid Atakov-Castillo, Tareq Salah, Marwa Al-Badri, Abdelrahman Khater, Ryan McCarragher, Omnia Elenani, Elena Toschi, Osama Hamdy 
World J Diabetes 15(3):455-462. Published online Mar 15, 2024. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v15.i3.455
Clinical and Translational Research
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Letter to the Editor
Kotha Sugunakar Reddy, Archana Gaur, Sakthivadivel Varatharajan, Arvind Kumar Morya 
World J Diabetes 15(3):565-567. Published online Mar 15, 2024. doi: 10.4239/wjd.v15.i3.565