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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 innovative, novel, and practical clinical case, clinical and translational research achievements in the fields of clinical medicine. 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. The journal 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

The 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2023 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJCC as 1.0; JIF without journal self cites: 0.9; 5-year JIF: 1.1; JIF Rank: 170/329 in medicine, general and internal; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
2307-8960 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (298), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (46 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (22.8%/Mean), Production Time (26 days/Mean), Time to Publication (134 days/Mean), and Rejected (25.2%/Mean).
Minireviews
Christina Mouratidou, Efstathios T Pavlidis, Georgios Katsanos, Serafeim-Chrysovalantis Kotoulas, Georgios Tsoulfas, Eleni Mouloudi, Ioannis A Taitzoglou, Ioannis N Galanis, Theodoros E Pavlidis 
World J Clin Cases 13(23):107279. Published online Aug 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i23.107279
Retrospective Cohort Study
Eduardo Brambilla, Daniel Jun Funatsu Brambilla, Aline Caldart Tregnago, Floriano Riva, Fabio Firmbach Pasqualotto, Jonathan Soldera 
World J Clin Cases 13(23):105011. Published online Aug 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i23.105011
Retrospective Study
Amram Kupietzky, Yehonatan Bar-Moshe, Nofar Lavie, Moriya Drayer Lichtman, Roi Dover, Eyal Yonathan Juster, Ata Maden, Haggi Mazeh, Ido Mizrahi 
World J Clin Cases 13(23):106532. Published online Aug 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i23.106532
Clinical Trials Study
Prospective Study
Systematic Reviews
Case Report
Koffi Isidore Kouame, Paterne Michael N'kan Mobio, Judith Kouesseu Bouh, Jean Kouassi Konan, Theodore Klinnan Coulibaly, Cyrille Wallamitien Toure, Lauraine Armande Assoh Diebi, Jose Ndjassipli Homawoo Kouakou, Bable Essuy Koffi, Paul Yapo Yapo 
World J Clin Cases 13(23):106321. Published online Aug 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i23.106321
Xiao-Ying Zhong, Zi-Jian Liang, Meng-Long Lan, Xiao-Gang Xu, Li Yuan, Ji-Xiao Zeng 
World J Clin Cases 13(23):107096. Published online Aug 16, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i23.107096