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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (WJGSWorld J Gastrointest Surg) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJGS accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJGS are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJGS is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of gastrointestinal surgery, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJGS 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
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Peter Schemmer, FACS, MD, PhD, Chairman, Full Professor, Professor, (E-mail: peter.schemmer@medunigraz.at) Department of General, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz 8036, Styria, Austria
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJGS is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, PubMed, PubMed Central, 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 WJGS as 1.8; JIF without journal self cites: 1.7; 5-year JIF: 1.9; JIF Rank: 123/290 in surgery; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
1948-9366 (online)
Editorial
Ilhan Karabicak, Kadir Yildirim, Mahmut Fikret Gursel, Zafer Malazgirt 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(10):3078-3083. Published online Oct 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i10.3078
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Observational Study
Jaroslaw Cwaliński, Filip Lorek, Łukasz Mazurkiewicz, Michał Mazurkiewicz, Wojciech Lizurej, Jacek Paszkowski, Hanna Cholerzyńska, Wiktoria Zasada 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(10):3253-3260. Published online Oct 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i10.3253
Prospective Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Clinical and Translational Research
Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska, Pankaj Garg, Anders Mellgren, Antonino Spinelli, Stephanie Breukink, Francesca Iacobellis, Małgorzata Kołodziejczak, Przemysław Ciesielski, Christian Jenssen, SMART Collaborative Group, Giulio Aniello Santoro 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(10):3288-3300. Published online Oct 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i10.3288
Case Report
Han-Teng Yang, Fu-Rong Wang, Na He, Yuan-Hua She, Yong-Yue Du, Wen-Gui Shi, Jing Yang, Gang Chen, Shu-Ze Zhang, Feng Cui, Bo Long, Ze-Yuan Yu, Jun-Min Zhu, Geng-Yuan Zhang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(10):3334-3342. Published online Oct 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i10.3334
Letter to the Editor