World Journal of Gastroenterology

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).

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Discipline	Gastroenterology
Language	English
Edited by	Andrzej S. Tarnawski
Publication details
Former name(s)	China National Journal of New Gastroenterology
History	1995-present
Publisher	Baishideng Publishing Group
Frequency	Weekly
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial
Impact factor	5.742 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	World J. Gastroenterol.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	WJGAF2
ISSN	1007-9327 (print) 2219-2840 (web)
OCLC no.	41888177
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive PubMed Central archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• CAB Abstracts^[2]
• Chemical Abstracts^[3]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[4]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed/PubMed Central^[5]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[4]

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]