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World Journal of Orthopedics (WJO, World J Orthop) 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 orthopedics. The types of articles published in WJO 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. WJO is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>
Editors-in-Chief
- Xiao-Jian Ye, MD, Chief Physician, (Email: yexj2002@163.com) Department of Orthopedics, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200233, China
Indexing/Abstracting
WJO 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 WJO as 2.3; JIF without journal self cites: 2.2; 5-year JIF: 2.5; JIF Rank: 46/139 in orthopedics; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.
The WJO’s CiteScore for 2024 is 3.5 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Orthopedics and sports medicine is 120/332.
ISSN
2218-5836 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (215), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (34 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (26.0%/Mean), Production Time (30 days/Mean), Time to Publication (127 days/Mean), and Rejected (29.8%/Mean).
Editorial
Ren-Xian Xie, Yi-Xuan Xing, Nian-Zhe Sun
World J Orthop
16(8):109149.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.109149
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Received: 04/30/2025
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Revised: 06/13/2025
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Accepted: 07/10/2025
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Amr Elshahhat
World J Orthop
16(8):109620.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.109620
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Received: 05/15/2025
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Revised: 05/30/2025
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Accepted: 07/09/2025
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Review
Aqil M Jawed, Lei Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Qi Liu, Waqas Ahmed, Huan Wang
World J Orthop
16(8):107064.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.107064
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Received: 03/13/2025
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Revised: 05/02/2025
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Accepted: 07/03/2025
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Can Liu, Jie Jian, Yang-Fei Yi, Yi-Tong Ding, Yao Chen, Zhong-Wen Tang, Jie Wen, Yu-Fei Li
World J Orthop
16(8):108407.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.108407
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Received: 04/13/2025
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Minireviews
Matthias Wittauer, Joseph Henry, Guillermo Sánchez-Rosenberg, Anton Philip Lambers, Christopher W Jones, Piers J Yates
World J Orthop
16(8):106982.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.106982
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Received: 03/12/2025
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Accepted: 07/15/2025
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Retrospective Cohort Study
Qing-Qing Chen, Yang Liu, Ju-Hui Yang, Bo Yang
World J Orthop
16(8):110332.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.110332
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Received: 06/04/2025
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Accepted: 07/15/2025
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Retrospective Study
Hemant Sharma, Rajesh Verma, Lalit Kumar, Asgar Ali, Guruditta Khurana, Vishal Gurnani, Shallini Mittal, Nikita Jajodia
World J Orthop
16(8):102298.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.102298
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Received: 10/14/2024
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Revised: 12/27/2024
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Accepted: 07/25/2025
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Hugo C Rodriguez, Kevin L Mekkawy, Brandon D Rust, Thomas O Yergler, Arturo Corces, Martin W Roche, Ashim Gupta
World J Orthop
16(8):109885.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.109885
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Received: 05/24/2025
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Mei-Jun Yan, Bei-Ting Zhang, Guo-Ke Tang, Yan-Bin Liu, Wei-Bo Liao, Song Guo, Qiang Fu
World J Orthop
16(8):109904.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.109904
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Received: 05/25/2025
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Observational Study
Andrey E Bokov, Svetlana Y Kalinina, Daria A Kulagina, Kseniia S Lopyrina, Vladimir V Klinshov, Anatolii A Bulkin
World J Orthop
16(8):108161.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.108161
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Systematic Reviews
Arnab Karmakar, Akash Jaiswal, Soham Mandal, Afroz Ahmed Khan, Monjori Mitra
World J Orthop
16(8):106769.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.106769
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Gennady N Machak, Øyvind S Bruland, Alexey V Kovalev, Svetlana S Rodionova
World J Orthop
16(8):107083.
Published online Aug 18, 2025.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i8.107083
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