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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastroenterology

World Journal of Gastroenterology (WJG, World J Gastroenterol) 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 gastroenterology and hepatology. The types of articles published in WJG 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. WJG is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2026 Published Issues
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Andrzej S Tarnawski, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: atarnawski@yahoo.com) Department of Gastroenterology Research, University of California Irvine and The Veterans Administration Long Beach Healthcare System, Long Beach, CA 90822, United States
Indexing/Abstracting

The WJG is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJG as 5.4; JIF without journal self cites: 5.1; 5-year JIF: 5.3; JIF Rank: 22/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q1; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q1.

The WJG’s CiteScore for 2024 is 8.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Gastroenterology is 20/173.

ISSN
1007-9327 (print) and 2219-2840 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (36948), Duration of Peer Review (24 days/Mean), Days from Submission to First Decision (41 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (37 days/Mean), Accepted (31.1%/Mean), Production Time (56 days/Mean), Time to Publication (177 days/Mean), and Rejected (61.6%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Minireviews
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Wen-Jing Ye, Esraa Ali, Sergii Pavlov, Lenka Červenková, Filip Ambrozkiewicz, Ondřej Vyčítal, Petr Hošek, František Zitrický, Ondřej Daum, Václav Liška, Kari Hemminki, Andriy Trailin 
World J Gastroenterol 32(10):115130. Published online Mar 14, 2026. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v32.i10.115130
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Basic Study
Si-Wei Xia, Huan Liu, Kai-Yao Yang, Yi-Jie Gao, Meng-Ru Zhang, Jing-Wen Zhou, De-Song Kong, Hong-Yan Wu, Feng Zhang, Li Chen 
World J Gastroenterol 32(10):115334. Published online Mar 14, 2026. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v32.i10.115334
Systematic Reviews
Junseo Lee, Anuroop Yekula, Ava Wexler, William Zhuang, Ashwath Elangovan, Joshua Rosario, Philomena Burger, Gopal Ramaraju, Benyam Addissie, Nicholas Lim, Michael R Narkewicz, Patrick Twohig 
World J Gastroenterol 32(10):114946. Published online Mar 14, 2026. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v32.i10.114946
Letter to the Editor
Correction