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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 (315), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (46 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (24.4%/Mean), Production Time (27 days/Mean), Time to Publication (131 days/Mean), and Rejected (25.7%/Mean).
Editorial
Ayesha Younus, Yu Liu, Ellen E Connor, Zeng-Ying Wu, Hwajeong Lee, Zhi-Yan Fu 
World J Clin Cases 13(24):107825. Published online Aug 26, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i24.107825
Minireviews
Prospective Study
Kanhaiyalal Agrawal, P Sai Sradha Patro, Tejasvini Singhal, Drishty Satpati, Prasant Nayak, Swarnendu Mandal, Navneet Kumar, Biswa Mohan Padhy, Mukund Sable, Bikash Ranjan Meher 
World J Clin Cases 13(24):107555. Published online Aug 26, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i24.107555
Case Report
Abdullah Ibrahim Ali Abuharb, Abdullah Fahad Alzamil, Khalid Saad Alqarni, Ali M Alsudays, Saeed M Alqahtani, Rawan Mosleh Alahmadi, Alyaa Shojaa Al Mutairy, Fareed Ramzi Alghamdi 
World J Clin Cases 13(24):105244. Published online Aug 26, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i24.105244
Francesca Spinelli, Francesco Petrella, Andrea Cara, Enrico Cassina, Lidia Libretti, Emanuele Pirondini, Matilde De Simone, Ugo Cioffi, Antonio Tuoro, Gerardo Cioffi, Federico Raveglia 
World J Clin Cases 13(24):107384. Published online Aug 26, 2025. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v13.i24.107384
Letter to the Editor