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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 (15961), Duration of Peer Review (28 days/Mean), Days from Submission 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 (43.0%/Mean).
Minireviews
Observational Study
Ioannis Tsikopoulos, Sarah L Knight, Stamatios Katsimperis, Claire Riley, Mohamed Helal, Richard Nobrega 
World J Clin Cases 14(7):117882. Published online Mar 6, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i7.117882
Aparna Kadiveti, Muthyala Pavana Sandya, Prasanth Tumarada, Ekavenika Kovelakar, Leela Venkata Sai Krishna Maramreddy 
World J Clin Cases 14(7):118432. Published online Mar 6, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i7.118432
Systematic Reviews
Sarita Aggarwal, Arvind Kumar Morya, Prateek Nishant, Sony Sinha, Rajwinder Kaur, Ranjeet Kumar Sinha, Rannusha Morya 
World J Clin Cases 14(7):117943. Published online Mar 6, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i7.117943
Marcelo Augusto Fontenelle Ribeiro Junior, Rafael Dib Possiedi, Leticia Stefani Pacheco, Nicolas de Cesaro Schpchacki, Syeda Nafeesa Hashim, Bruno Monteiro Tavares Pereira 
World J Clin Cases 14(7):118719. Published online Mar 6, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i7.118719
Case Report