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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 (16001), 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
Retrospective Study
Ammar Chapra, Fateen Ata, Amal Abdellatif, Mohammed Nofal, Ahmed Daniyal, Asma Mohammad Younus, Jassim Zaheen Shah, Kakil Rasul 
World J Clin Cases 14(9):118187. Published online Mar 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i9.118187
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Camila Santos Loor, Pamela Katherine Macias Fernandez, Erika Esther Blasco Arriaga, Luis Espin Custodio, Marco Fabricio Bombón Caizaluisa, Edwin Antonio Ross Rodriguez, Marlon Irwin Pozo Albán, Agata Grochowska, Enrique Antonio Gagliardo Cadena 
World J Clin Cases 14(9):118016. Published online Mar 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i9.118016
Jackson Kakooza, Prosper Akankwasa, Samuel Mugabe, Barbara Kauna Kiadii, Catherine R Lewis 
World J Clin Cases 14(9):118553. Published online Mar 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i9.118553
Emir Begagić, Hakija Bečulić, Anes Mašović, Fahrudin Alić, Mirza Huremović, Semir Vranić 
World J Clin Cases 14(9):118634. Published online Mar 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i9.118634
Kandukuri Shiva Priya, Ashutosh Kaushal, Pfokreni Lokho, Niranjani Balasubramanian, Amit Agrawal, Surya Kant, Nikhil Badetiya 
World J Clin Cases 14(9):119273. Published online Mar 26, 2026. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v14.i9.119273