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Welcome to the World Journal of Orthopedics

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 >>

2025 Published Issues
11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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 (303), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (31 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (31 days/Mean), Accepted (41.9%/Mean), Production Time (32 days/Mean), Time to Publication (130 days/Mean), and Rejected (29.4%/Mean).
Editorial
Opinion Review
Review
Minireviews
Kanyakorn Riewruja, Thanatat Wattanatanagorn, Jirun Apinun 
World J Orthop 16(11):110093. Published online Nov 18, 2025. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i11.110093
Retrospective Cohort Study
Observational Study
Mauricio Alvarez, Juliana Rincon, Maria Mercedes Ulloa, Oswaldo Rincon, Liliana Mejia, Alejandra Alvarado, Andres Pereira, Mónica Bernal 
World J Orthop 16(11):110420. Published online Nov 18, 2025. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i11.110420
Syed Muhammad Tayyab Hassan, Shahid Hussain, Shafqat Wasim, Tauseef Raza, Naveed Khan, Syed Abdur Rub Abidi, Kashif Anwar, Hamdoon Suharwardy Asim, Elham Shenawa 
World J Orthop 16(11):111857. Published online Nov 18, 2025. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i11.111857
Ali Saad Alshahrani, Abdullah Bader Aljaffar, Baqir Jafar Albin Ahmed, Mohammad Waleed Altabash, Zaid A Dajani, Ali Hussein Alamer, Abdulaziz Jamal Alzawad, Fawaz Alanii, Mohammad M Alzahrani 
World J Orthop 16(11):111953. Published online Nov 18, 2025. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i11.111953
Prospective Study
Systematic Reviews
Case Report
Ravikiran Vanapalli, Udit K Jayant, Sai Krishna Mlv, Sanjay Singh Rawat, Mohammed Tahir Ansari 
World J Orthop 16(11):110716. Published online Nov 18, 2025. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v16.i11.110716
Letter to the Editor