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Welcome to the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery (WJGS, World J Gastrointest Surg) 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 surgery. 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. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJGS is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >> 

2025 Published Issues
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Eva Lieto, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, (E-mail: eva.lieto@unicampania.it) Traslazional Medicine, Vanvitelli University, Napoli, NA 80132, Italy
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 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2024 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJGS as 1.7; JIF without journal self cites: 1.6; 5-year JIF: 2.0; JIF Rank: 148/312 in surgery; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2; JIF Rank: 103/147 in gastroenterology and hepatology; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
1948-9366 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (758), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (30 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (29 days/Mean), Accepted (45.8%/Mean), Production Time (53 days/Mean), Time to Publication (144 days/Mean), and Rejected (29.6%/Mean).
Editorial
Thai-Hau Koo, Xue-Bin Leong, Yi-Lin Lee, Mohd Hazeman Zakaria, Firdaus Hayati, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):103865. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.103865
Guang-Bin Chen, Zhi-Lin Wang, Yan-Guang Sha, Rong-Mei Tang, Zhi-Gang Liu, Long-Jiang Chen 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):108505. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.108505
Review
Yao Rong, Chen-Yang Nie, Ji-Dian Zhou, Zi-Cheng Wang, Di-Lin Wu, Sheng-Wei Wu, Zheng-Yong Xie 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):111672. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.111672
Minireviews
Ioana Alexandra Prisacariu, Konstantinos Eleftherios Koumarelas, Konstantinos Argyriou, Alexandros Charalabopoulos, Grigorios Christodoulidis 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):109535. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.109535
David Gutierrez Blanco, Marcio Apodaca-Rueda, Carlos T Maeda, Camila G C Y Carvalho, Erin Baker, John B Martinie, Raphael L C Araujo 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):109774. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.109774
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Mai Mazarieb, Amjad Parvaiz, Ubaida Hawashna, Yackov Romanenko, Eli Atar, Gil N Bachar 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):108938. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.108938
Cheng-Jian He, Xiang-Dong Wang, Nai-Jian Ge, Xue Liu, Jian Huang, Wei Xu, Cai-Fang Ni, Ye-Fa Yang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):109260. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.109260
Ji-Fen Ma, Li Jin, Ling Sha, Hong-Fang Li, Xiang-Yun Qian, Hai-Yan Wang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):109999. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.109999
Clinical Trials Study
Observational Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Basic Study
Shu-Kuan Yang, Xue-Kai Zhao, Yang-Yang Cui, De-Zheng Liu, Zi-Jian Zhao, Lei Zhou, Lin Wang, Fan Zhang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 17(10):111673. Published online Oct 27, 2025. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v17.i10.111673
Systematic Reviews
Case Report
Letter to the Editor