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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 >>

2025 Published Issues
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, (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

The 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2023 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJCC as 1.0; JIF without journal self cites: 0.9; 5-year JIF: 1.1; JIF Rank: 170/329 in medicine, general and internal; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q3.

ISSN
2307-8960 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (344), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (43 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (26 days/Mean), Accepted (27.3%/Mean), Production Time (29 days/Mean), Time to Publication (132 days/Mean), and Rejected (26.7%/Mean).
Review
Retrospective Cohort Study
Chih-Wei Hsu, Chuen Hsueh, Yu-Ling Lu, Chia-Jung Hsu, Richard J Wong, Shu-Fu Lin 
World J Clin Cases 13(25):105204. Published online Sep 6, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i25.105204
Retrospective Study
Drupad Das, Sindura Ponnampurathu, Prasan Kumar Panda, Yogendra Pratap Mathuria 
World J Clin Cases 13(25):106335. Published online Sep 6, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i25.106335
Clinical Trials Study
Hua Liu, Fei Ke, Cheng-Zhi Li, Shu-Ping Li, Xue-Qin He, Hua Lu 
World J Clin Cases 13(25):97335. Published online Sep 6, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i25.97335
Observational Study
Hyungsun Jun, Myungseok Ryu, Hyocheong Chae, Hongmin Chu, Kwangho Kim, Do-Eun Lee, Hanbit Jin, Sungjun Joo, Dasol Park, Jungtae Leem, Hyung Won Kang 
World J Clin Cases 13(25):107484. Published online Sep 6, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i25.107484
Case Report
Tomohiro Tanikawa, Keisuke Miyake, Mayuko Kawada, Katsunori Ishii, Takashi Fushimi, Noriyo Urata, Nozomu Wada, Ken Nishino, Mitsuhiko Suehiro, Miwa Kawanaka, Hidenori Shiraha, Ken Haruma, Hiroyasu Fujiwara, Tomoki Yamatsuji, Hirofumi Kawamoto 
World J Clin Cases 13(25):106089. Published online Sep 6, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i25.106089