Discipline | Gastroenterology |
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Language | English |
Edited by | Andrzej S. Tarnawski |
Publication details | |
Former name(s) | China National Journal of New Gastroenterology |
History | 1995-present |
Publisher | |
Frequency | Weekly |
Yes | |
License | Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial |
5.742 (2020) | |
Standard abbreviations | |
ISO 4 | World J. Gastroenterol. |
Indexing | |
CODEN | WJGAF2 |
ISSN | 1007-9327 (print) 2219-2840 (web) |
OCLC no. | 41888177 |
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World Journal of Gastroenterology is a weekly peer-reviewed open access medical journal that covers research in gastroenterology. It was established in 1995 and is published by Baishideng Publishing Group. [1] The editor-in-chief is Andrzej S. Tarnawski (California State University, Long Beach).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
In 2004, the journal was delisted from the Journal Citation Reports for excessive self-citation, [6] but it was restored to this index in 2008, at which time its impact factor was determined to be 2.081. [7] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 5.742, ranking it 28th out of 92 journals in the category "Gastroenterology and Hepatology". [8]