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Welcome to the World Journal of Hepatology

World Journal of Hepatology (WJH, World J Hepatol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJH accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJH are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJH is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of hepatology, to help advance development of this field. 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. Submit here >>

2024 Published Issues
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD, Consultant Physician-Scientist, Doctor, Full Professor, Professor, (E-mail: kjkang@dsmc.or.kr) Department of Surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Medical Center, Daegu 42601, South Korea
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 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2023 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJH as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.4; 5-year JIF: 2.7; JIF Rank: 71/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

The WJH’s CiteScore for 2023 is 4.1 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Hepatology is 41/82.
ISSN
1948-5182 (online)
Editorial
Review
Margarita Montoya-Buelna, Inocencia G Ramirez-Lopez, Cesar A San Juan-Garcia, Jose J Garcia-Regalado, Mariana S Millan-Sanchez, Ulises de la Cruz-Mosso, Jesse Haramati, Ana L Pereira-Suarez, Jose Macias-Barragan 
World J Hepatol 16(9):1211-1228. Published online Sep 27, 2024. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v16.i9.1211
Oscar Manuel Fierro-Angulo, José Alberto González-Regueiro, Ariana Pereira-García, Astrid Ruiz-Margáin, Fernando Solis-Huerta, Ricardo Ulises Macías-Rodríguez 
World J Hepatol 16(9):1229-1246. Published online Sep 27, 2024. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v16.i9.1229
Minireviews
Yi-Chi Wu, Xue-Lin Xiang, June-Kong Yong, Meng Li, Lin-Man Li, Zi-Cheng Lv, Yi Zhou, Xi-Cheng Sun, Zi-Jie Zhang, Huan Tong, Xiao-Ying He, Qiang Xia, Hao Feng 
World J Hepatol 16(9):1258-1268. Published online Sep 27, 2024. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v16.i9.1258
Prospective Study
Dujinthan Jayabalan, Yi Huang, Luis Calzadilla-Bertot, Malik Janjua, Bastiaan de Boer, John Joseph, Wendy Cheng, Simon Hazeldine, Briohny W Smith, Gerry C MacQuillan, Michael C Wallace, George Garas, Leon A Adams, Gary P Jeffrey 
World J Hepatol 16(9):1269-1277. Published online Sep 27, 2024. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v16.i9.1269
Basic Study
Case Report
Letter to the Editor