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Welcome to the World Journal of Hepatology

World Journal of Hepatology (WJH, World J Hepatol) 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 hepatology. The types of articles published in WJH 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. WJH is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2026 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Ke-Qin Hu, MD, Professor, (E-mail: kqhu@uci.edu) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California Irvine, School of Medicine, Orange, CA 92617, United States
  • Joseph K Lim, MD, Professor, (E-mail: joseph.lim@yale.edu) Yale Viral Hepatitis Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, United States
  • Nikolaos T Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, Professor, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FAASLD, FRCP, Director, (E-mail: nikolaos.pyrsopoulos@nyulangone.org) Liver Disease in New Jersey, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Transplant Institutes, New York, NY 10016, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJH 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 WJH as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.5; 5-year JIF: 3.0; JIF Rank: 68/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJH’s CiteScore for 2024 is 4.8 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Hepatology is 38/87. 

ISSN
1948-5182 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (3889), Peer Review Time (28 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (44 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (42 days/Mean), Accepted (54.1%/Mean), Production Time (53 days/Mean), Time to Publication (178 days/Mean), and Rejected (33.9%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Manjeet Kumar Goyal, Rishi Chowdhary, Chirag Vohra, Megh Patel, Shivam Kalra, Madhav Mehta, Rachel McNulty, Kartikay Goyal, Ashita Rukmini Vuthaluru, Omesh Goyal 
World J Hepatol 18(1):115048. Published online Jan 27, 2026. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v18.i1.115048
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Andrew W Schwartz, Emily Y Park, Ysabel C Ilagan-Ying, Zoe E Zimmerman, Bryan Bollinger, Lee D Ying, Yanhong D Deng, Andrew J Duffy, John M Morton, Wajahat Z Mehal, Albert Do, Bubu A Banini 
World J Hepatol 18(1):113753. Published online Jan 27, 2026. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v18.i1.113753
Retrospective Study
Clinical Trials Study
Observational Study
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Ming-Hao Ruan, Fei-Yang Ye, Jin-Ni Ma, Jin Qian, Ming-Hao Zou, Wen-Xuan Zhou, Jie Sheng, Xin-Gang Guo, Dong Wei, Cheng-Jing Zhang, Hui Liu, Fu-Chen Liu 
World J Hepatol 18(1):111871. Published online Jan 27, 2026. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v18.i1.111871
Case Report
Ji-Wei Qin, Jian-Cheng Wu, Hao Zheng, Can Qi, Ze-Bin Zhu, Xue-Feng Li, Ning Wang, Xiao-Dong Yuan, Zhi-Jun Xu, Wei Wu, Shu-Geng Zhang, Björn Nashan 
World J Hepatol 18(1):114291. Published online Jan 27, 2026. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v18.i1.114291
Letter to the Editor