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World Journal of Orthopedics (WJO, World J Orthop) 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 orthopedics. The types of articles published in WJO 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. WJO is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>
Editors-in-Chief
- Xiao-Jian Ye, MD, Chief Physician, (Email: yexj2002@163.com) Department of Orthopedics, Tongren Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200233, China
Indexing/Abstracting
WJO is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science), Scopus, 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 WJO as 2.3; JIF without journal self cites: 2.2; 5-year JIF: 2.5; JIF Rank: 46/139 in orthopedics; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.
The WJO’s CiteScore for 2024 is 3.5 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Orthopedics and sports medicine is 120/332.
ISSN
2218-5836 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (2814), Peer Review Time (36 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (56 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (42 days/Mean), Accepted (46.3%/Mean), Production Time (65 days/Mean), Time to Publication (199 days/Mean), and Rejected (43.0%/Mean).
Review
Lorenzo Lucchetta, Giampiero Mastroeni, Giuseppe Rinonapoli, Auro Caraffa, Saran Singh Gill, Valerio Pace
World J Orthop
17(1):108554.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.108554
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Received: 04/16/2025
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Nivetha Suresh, Sundaravadhanan Lekhavadhani, Nagarajan Selvamurugan
World J Orthop
17(1):113228.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.113228
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Received: 08/19/2025
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Accepted: 11/12/2025
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Minireviews
Madhan Jeyaraman, Naveen Jeyaraman, Arulkumar Nallakumarasamy, Mainak Roy, Tomas M de Souza Moraes, Lucas F da Fonseca
World J Orthop
17(1):109955.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.109955
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Received: 05/26/2025
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Accepted: 11/03/2025
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Naveen Jeyaraman, Madhan Jeyaraman, Swaminathan Ramasubramanian, Shrideavi Murugan, Arulkumar Nallakumarasamy, Sathish Muthu
World J Orthop
17(1):111911.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.111911
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Retrospective Cohort Study
Mohammad Adham Abdulsamad, Turki S AlMugren, Abdullah I Saeed, Waleed A Alrogy, Linah D Alanazi, Ohud M Alsaqer, Faisal T Alanbar, Abdulrahman H Alfarraj, Ziad A Aljaafri
World J Orthop
17(1):112006.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.112006
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Received: 07/15/2025
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Retrospective Study
Ahmed A Khalifa, Mohamed Moustafa, Shikuria Lemma, Mostafa Fayez, Ahmed M Abdelaal, Amr A Fadle
World J Orthop
17(1):111824.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.111824
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Received: 07/09/2025
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Adhitya Byravamoni Venugopal, Nitin Chauhan, Sunit Wani, Leela Venkata Sai Krishna Maramreddy, Kushagra Pathak, Ravi Mittal
World J Orthop
17(1):112677.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.112677
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Received: 08/02/2025
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Observational Study
Zoe Alpert, Farouk Khury, Nicholas Sauder, Alan D Lam, Greta Laudes, Christopher M Melnic, Chad A Krueger, Ran Schwarzkopf
World J Orthop
17(1):110090.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.110090
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Received: 05/28/2025
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Madhan Jeyaraman, Naveen Jeyaraman, Swaminathan Ramasubramanian, Arulkumar Nallakumarasamy, Viji Devanand, Sathish Muthu
World J Orthop
17(1):112738.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.112738
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Received: 08/04/2025
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Jun-Rong Hu, Meng-Xiao He, Shan-Shan Wei, Han-Wen Ren, Cheng-Hao Liu, Xiao-Long Liu, Zhen-Cheng Chen
World J Orthop
17(1):111927.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.111927
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Basic Study
Veronika V Petukhova, Alexander Yu Mushkin, Alexey S Maletin, Marine Z Dogonadze, Natalia V Zabolotnykh, Marina E Dyakova, Dilyara S Esmedlyaeva, Tatiana I Vinogradova, Mikhail M Kostik
World J Orthop
17(1):112262.
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doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.112262
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Systematic Reviews
Sari Wathiq Al Hajaj, Chandramohan Ravichandran, Karthic Swaminathan, Sanjeevi Bharadwaj, Vishnu V Nair, Hussein Shoukry, Sriram Srinivasan
World J Orthop
17(1):111648.
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doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.111648
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Eva Lehtonen, Ruja Kambli, Krishna Mandalia, Kaley Beall, Sarav S Shah
World J Orthop
17(1):112625.
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doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.112625
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Guo-Qing Li, Ji Zhang, Yong Huang
World J Orthop
17(1):114482.
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doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.114482
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Meta-Analysis
Clevio Desouza, Isteyaque Siddique, Kishan Kushwaha, Anoop Puri
World J Orthop
17(1):110188.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.110188
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Case Report
Alexander Vlasak, Christopher Orear, Gary Sakryd, Joshua Metzl
World J Orthop
17(1):112222.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.112222
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Gregory M Georgiadis, Isaac A Arefi, Summer M Drees, Ajay Nair, Drew Wagner, Austin C Lawrence
World J Orthop
17(1):114078.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.114078
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Letter to the Editor
Emerito Carlos Rodriguez-Merchan
World J Orthop
17(1):113277.
Published online Jan 18, 2026.
doi: 10.5312/wjo.v17.i1.113277
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Accepted: 12/02/2025
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