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Welcome to the World Journal of Clinical Cases

World Journal of Clinical Cases (WJCC, World J Clin Cases) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing rare, complex, and multidisciplinary team (MDT)-discussed clinical cases, as well as clinical research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical. The types of articles published in WJCC include Case Report, Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, and Letter to the Editor. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJCC is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
Editors-in-Chief
  • Bao-Gan Peng, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: pengbaogan@163.com) Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Medical Center, General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing 100039, China
  • Salim Surani, MD, (E-mail: srsurani@gmail.com) Department of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX 78405, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJCC is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

There is currently no impact factor.

ISSN
2307-8960 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (413), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (40 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (26 days/Mean), Accepted (33.2%/Mean), Production Time (31 days/Mean), Time to Publication (130 days/Mean), and Rejected (27.1%/Mean).
Editorial
Luca Galassi, Matteo Lino Ravini, Roberto Bassani, Giulio Mercandalli, Giuseppe Diodato Santoro 
World J Clin Cases 13(29):108403. Published online Oct 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i29.108403
Review
Syed Faqeer Hussain Bokhari, Danyal Bakht, Maaz Amir, Hafiz Muhammad Haris, Noor Ul Ain, Muhammad Shoaib Qureshi, Faiza Yousaf, Rabia Yousaf, Khawar Ali, Muhammad Arsham Javed, Muhammad Numan Awais, Maheen Zahid, Muneeba Shaukat, Shermeen Usman, Ahmad Hassan, Maham Ejaz 
World J Clin Cases 13(29):110965. Published online Oct 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i29.110965
Minireviews
Daisuke Usuda, Daiki Furukawa, Rikako Imaizumi, Rikuo Ono, Yuki Kaneoka, Eri Nakajima, Yuto Sugawara, Runa Shimizu, Riki Sakurai, Shun Matsubara, Risa Tanaka, Makoto Suzuki, Shintaro Shimozawa, Yuta Hotchi, Ippei Osugi, Risa Katou, Sakurako Ito, Kentaro Mishima, Akihiko Kondo, Keiko Mizuno, Hiroki Takami, Takayuki Komatsu, Tomohisa Nomura, Manabu Sugita 
World J Clin Cases 13(29):108582. Published online Oct 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i29.108582
Systematic Reviews
Ehimare Enaholo, Godwin Okoye, Mutali Musa, Ayuba Suleman, Oluwasola Ojo, Roberta Foti, Fabiana D’Esposito, Rosa Giglio, Daniele Tognetto, Caterina Gagliano, Marco Zeppieri 
World J Clin Cases 13(29):108046. Published online Oct 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i29.108046
Case Report
Igor Petrovic, Klara Brekalo, Ivan Romic, Hrvoje Silovski, Vibor Sesa, Ruzica Galunic Cicak, Kresimir Bulic, Oliver M Koltay, Iva Martina Strajher, Anna Mrzljak 
World J Clin Cases 13(29):108608. Published online Oct 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i29.108608
Felix Pius Omullo, Odenyo Stella Anyango, Benard Munyao Mutua, Mike Onyango Odoyo, Harambee Moses Gogo, Victor Omondi Obung'a 
World J Clin Cases 13(29):109406. Published online Oct 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i29.109406
Letter to the Editor