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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology

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

2025 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Monjur Ahmed, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FASGE, FRCP, MD, MRCP, Doctor, Editor-in-Chief, Full Professor, (E-mail: monjur.ahmed@jefferson.edu) Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJGO is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, 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 WJGO as 2.5; JIF without journal self cites: 2.5; 5-year JIF: 2.8; JIF Rank: 72/143 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJGO’s CiteScore for 2023 is 4.2 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Gastroenterology is 80/167; Oncology is 196/404.

ISSN
1948-5204 (online)
Editorial
María Belén Novoa Díaz, Claudia Gentili, María Julia Martín, Pedro Carriere 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(2):100552. Published online Feb 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i2.100552
Retrospective Study
Kazuya Ohno, Eiji Nakatani, Takafumi Kurokami, Asami Kawai, Ryosuke Itai, Masanori Matsuda, Yuichi Masui, Tatsunori Satoh, Shinya Ikeda, Taiyo Hirata, Shodai Takeda, Makoto Suzuki, Ken Haruma 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(2):100545. Published online Feb 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i2.100545
Ki-Hyun Kim, Eun Myung, Hyung Hoon Oh, Chan-Muk Im, Young-Eun Seo, Je-Seong Kim, Chae-June Lim, Ga-Ram You, Sung-Bum Cho, Wan-Sik Lee, Myung-Giun Noh, Kyung-Hwa Lee, Young-Eun Joo 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(2):101780. Published online Feb 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i2.101780
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Letter to the Editor
Andrew Kai-Yip Fung, Kenneth Siu Ho Chok 
World J Gastrointest Oncol 17(2):99612. Published online Feb 15, 2025. doi: 10.4251/wjgo.v17.i2.99612
Correction