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Welcome to the World Journal of Stem Cells

World Journal of Stem Cells (WJSC, World J Stem Cells) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJSC accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJSC are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJSC is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of stem cells, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJSC 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
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Shengwen Calvin Li, MPhil, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Research Scientist, Senior Research Fellow, (E-mail: sli@choc.org; shengwel@uci.edu; choc.uci@gmail.com) Center for Neuroscience and Stem Cell Research, CHOC Children’s Research Institute, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Neuroscience Institute, UC Irvine, Orange, CA 92868-3874, United States
  • Carlo Ventura, MD, PhD, Director, Full Professor, (E-mail: carlo.ventura@unibo.it) National Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Stem Cell Engineering, National Institute of Biostructures and Biosystems, Bologna 40129, Italy
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJSC is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, 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 WJSC as 3.6; JIF without journal self cites: 3.5; 5-year JIF: 4.2; JIF Rank: 105/205 in cell biology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJSC’s CiteScore for 2023 is 7.8 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Histology is 11/62; Genetics is 78/347; Genetics (clinical) is 19/99; Molecular Biology is 131/410; Cell Biology is 108/285.

ISSN
1948-0210 (online)
Editorial
Minireviews
Clinical Trials Study
Takayasu Ohtake, Tsutomu Sato, Toshitaka Tsukiyama, Suguru Muraoka, Ayaka Mitomo, Haruka Maruyama, Mizuki Yamano, Yasuhiro Mochida, Kunihiro Ishioka, Machiko Oka, Hidekazu Moriya, Sumi Hidaka, Haruchika Masuda, Takayuki Asahara, Shuzo Kobayashi 
World J Stem Cells 16(12):1012-1021. Published online Dec 26, 2024. doi: 10.4252/wjsc.v16.i12.1012
Basic Study
Scientometrics
Letter to the Editor