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Welcome to the World Journal of Clinical Cases

World Journal of Clinical Cases (WJCC, World J Clin Cases) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing rare, complex, and multidisciplinary team (MDT)-discussed clinical cases, as well as clinical research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical. The types of articles published in WJCC include Case Report, Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, and Letter to the Editor. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJCC is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>

2026 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Bao-Gan Peng, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: pengbaogan@163.com) Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Medical Center, General Hospital of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing 100039, China
  • Salim Surani, MD, Professor, (E-mail: srsurani@gmail.com) Department of Medicine, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX 78405, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJCC is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

There is currently no impact factor.

ISSN
2307-8960 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (15923), Duration of Peer Review (28 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (54 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (36 days/Mean), Accepted (46.4%/Mean), Production Time (40 days/Mean), Time to Publication (144 days/Mean), and Rejected (43.1%/Mean).
Review
Ramesh Venkatesh, Prathibha Hande, Edwin James, Nagesha Krishnappa Chokkahalli, Prashanth Ranganath, Rupal Kathare, Vishma Prabhu, Chaitra Jayadev, Karishma Tendulkar, Pragati Raj, Gaurav Malwe, Shubhangi Tripathi, Preksha Biradar, Alisha Sirsikar, Naresh Kumar Yadav 
World J Clin Cases 14(6):118263. Published online Feb 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i6.118263
Observational Study
Leonardo Lorente, Esther Hernández Marrero, Pedro Abreu-Gonzalez, Angel Daniel Lorente Martín, Marina Lorente Martín, María José Marrero González, Carmen Hernández Marrero, Olga Hernández Marrero, Alejandro Jiménez, Cándido Manuel Hernández Padilla 
World J Clin Cases 14(6):118460. Published online Feb 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i6.118460
Case Report
Ribal Aby Hadeer, Souad Ghattas, Hadi Farhat, Hani Maalouf, Jad El Bitar, Dany Ayash, Faten Mohtar, Bachir Elias, Raja Wakim 
World J Clin Cases 14(6):117655. Published online Feb 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i6.117655
Gajendra Bhati, Federico Maria Mongardini, Kamna Bhati, Pushpinder Singh, Raghav Bansal, Ayush Bansal, Samridhi Mahajan, Ludovico Docimo, Marco Caricato, Gabriella Teresa Capolupo, Filippo Carannante 
World J Clin Cases 14(6):118135. Published online Feb 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i6.118135