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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (WJGE, World J Gastrointest Endosc) 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 gastrointestinal endoscopy. The types of articles published in WJGE 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. WJGE is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Joo Young Cho, MD, PhD, (E-mail: cjy6695@naver.com) Department of Gastroenterology, Cha Gangnam Medical Center, Cha University College of Medicine, Seoul 06135, South Korea
  • Bing Hu, MD, Professor, (Email: hubingnj@163.com) Department of Gastroenterology, Endoscopy Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan Province, China
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJGE is now abstracted and indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science), PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJGE as 1.8; JIF without journal self cites: 1.7; 5-year JIF: 1.9; JIF Rank: 98/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.
ISSN
1948-5190 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (263), Peer Review Time (17 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (28 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (29 days/Mean), Accepted (60.8%/Mean), Production Time (34 days/Mean), Time to Publication (134 days/Mean), and Rejected (17.1%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Chhagan L Birda, Jahnvi Dhar, Naveen Kumar, Shubhra Mishra, Giuseppe Dell'Anna, Cherring Tandup, Satish S Nagaraj, Stefano F Crinò, Vikramjit Mitra, Zaheer Nabi, Jayanta Samanta 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):111782. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.111782
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Mitsuru Sugimoto, Yuki Nakajima, Yutaro Takeda, Yuki Sato, Tadayuki Takagi, Rei Suzuki, Hiroyuki Asama, Hiroshi Shimizu, Kentaro Sato, Rei Ohira, Jun Nakamura, Tsunetaka Kato, Takumi Yanagita, Mitsuru Otsuka, Takuto Hikichi, Hiromasa Ohira 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):110136. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.110136
Jakub Pietrzak, Jan Pertkiewicz, Sławomir Kozieł, Paweł Babski, Joanna Ligocka, Adam Przybyłkowski 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):110432. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.110432
Ali A Alali, Nargess Ali, Ahmad Hashim, Dalal Alhaqqan, Wadha Aljasser, Abdulaziz Almudaires, Shahad Bastaki, Ahmad Alhashmi, Ahmad Altaleb 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):112485. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.112485
Alexandre Gomes, Enzo Barrio, Guilherme Gomes, José Henrique Carvalho Gandini de Souza, Pérsio Campos Correia Pinto, Ronaldo Antonio Borghesi 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):114581. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.114581
Retrospective Study
Khaled M AlQahtani, Abdulkreem A AlNasser, Ali M AlQahtani, Abdulaziz A AlTurki, Aseel K Aljaili, Abdulkhaleq H Alamri, Ali S Owayed, Yasser W Asiri, Shakir A Bakkari, Ameen M Jaddoh, Thamer A Aldarsouny, Toufic G Semaan, Mohamed S Elbayoumy, Ibrahim M Alruzug, Alhumidi A Alenezi, Mohammed S Bin-Ofaysan, Mohammed O Alsager, Hatim S Alshahrani, Sultan M Alhaddad, Hisham N Almuhayzi, Rana A Almousa, Awad J Shehada, Adnan A AlMasri, Manhal K Aldaher, Mostafa E Maaly, Ihab M Hafez, Saeed R Alzubide 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):110842. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.110842
Shabir A Lone, Ujjwal Sonika, Ravi Teja Reddy, Venkatesh Vaithiyam, Payila SR Aneesh, Sri Harsha Palli, Ashok Dalal, Ajay Kumar, Siddharth Srivastava, Sanjeev Sachdeva 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):111614. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.111614
Observational Study
Amulya Agrawal, Alvaro Cadillo Arbaiza, Ronald Blanco Montecino, Jaime P Almandoz, Sarah E Messiah, Matthew Mathew, Anna Tavakkoli 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):113467. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.113467
Systematic Reviews
Partha Pal, Priyaranjan Kata, Zaheer Nabi, Mohan Ramchandani, Pramod Reddy Soma, Rajesh Gupta, Manu Tandan, Nageshwar Reddy Duvvur 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):111236. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.111236
Case Report
Makoto Saito, Kencho Miyashita, Masahiro Ieko, Emi Yokoyama, Minoru Kanaya, Koh Izumiyama, Akio Mori, Masanobu Morioka, Takeshi Kondo 
World J Gastrointest Endosc 17(12):114836. Published online Dec 16, 2025. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v17.i12.114836