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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
11 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: 126/292 in surgery; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
1948-9366 (online)
Editorial
Grigorios Christodoulidis, Dimitra Bartzi, Konstantinos Eleftherios Koumarelas, Marina Nektaria Kouliou 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(11):3391-3394. Published online Nov 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i11.3391
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Xiao-Bo Cheng, Li Yang, Ming-Qian Lu, Yi-Bo Peng, Lei Wang, Shuang-Ming Zhu, Zhi-Wei Hu, Zhong-Liang Wang, Qin Yang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(11):3463-3470. Published online Nov 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i11.3463
Dania Nachira, Giuseppe Calabrese, Alessia Senatore, Valerio Pontecorvi, Khrystyna Kuzmych, Claudia Belletatti, Ivo Boskoski, Elisa Meacci, Alberto Biondi, Federico Raveglia, Vincenzo Bove, Maria Teresa Congedo, Maria Letizia Vita, Gloria Santoro, Leonardo Petracca Ciavarella, Filippo Lococo, Giovanni Punzo, Angelo Trivisonno, Francesco Petrella, Federico Barbaro, Cristiano Spada, Domenico D'Ugo, Ugo Cioffi, Stefano Margaritora 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(11):3471-3483. Published online Nov 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i11.3471
Observational Study
Basic Study
Meta-Analysis
De-Yi Chen, Hai-Dong Chen, Xiao-Dan Lv, Zhou Huang, Dan Jiang, Yu Li, Bing Han, Li-Chun Han, Xiao-Fang Xu, Shi-Quan Li, Guang-Fu Lin, Zhi-Xi Huang, Jia-Ning Lin, Xiao-Ping Lv 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(11):3568-3577. Published online Nov 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i11.3568
Case Report
Fang-Nan Wu, Min Zhang, Kun Zhang, Xin-Liang Lv, Jing-Qiang Guo, Chao-Yong Tu, Qing-Yun Zhou 
World J Gastrointest Surg 16(11):3598-3605. Published online Nov 27, 2024. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v16.i11.3598
Letter to the Editor