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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, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJCC accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJCC are high-quality, influential clinical cases and clinical research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJCC is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of clinical medicine, to help advance development of this field. 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. Submit here >>

2024 Published Issues
17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Jerzy Tadeusz Chudek, MD, Academic Research, Full Professor, (E-mail: chj@poczta.fm) Department of Internal Diseases and Oncological Chemotherapy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice 40-027, Poland
  • George Kontogeorgos, MD, PhD, Additional Professor, Research Associate, (E-mail: gkonto@med.uoa.gr) Department of Pathology and Pituitary Tumor Reference Center, Division of Endocrinology, First Propaedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Laikon Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 115 27, Greece
  • Bao-Gan Peng, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, (E-mail: pengbaogan@163.com)Department of Spinal Surgery, General Hospital of Armed Police Force, Beijing 100039, China
  • Maurizio Serati, MD, Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Insubria, Varese 21100, Italy
  • Salim Surani, FACP, FCCP, MD, MHSc, MPhil, Full Professor, Department of Pharmacy & Medicine, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX 78405, United States
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJCC is now abstracted and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE, also known as SciSearch®), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine, PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics
The 2023 Edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2022 impact factor (IF) for WJCC as 1.1; IF without journal self cites: 1.1; 5-year IF: 1.3; Journal Citation Indicator: 0.26; Ranking: 133 among 167 journals in medicine, general and internal; and Quartile category: Q4.
ISSN
2307-8960 (online)
Editorial
Opinion Review
Minireviews
Giovanni Miotti, Luca De Marco, Davide Quaglia, Martina Grando, Carlo Salati, Leopoldo Spadea, Caterina Gagliano, Mutali Musa, Pier Luigi Surico, Pier Camillo Parodi, Marco Zeppieri 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):2951-2965. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.2951
Retrospective Cohort Study
Georges Khattar, Samer Asmar, Laurence Aoun, Fares Saliba, Shaza Almardini, Saif Abu Baker, Catherine Hong, Carolla El Chamieh, Fadi Haddadin, Toni Habib, Omar Mourad, Zeina Morcos, Fatema Arafa, Jonathan Mina, Khalil El Gharib, Mohammad Aldalahmeh, Salman Khan, Elie Bou Sanayeh 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):2966-2975. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.2966
Retrospective Study
Mei-Chen Ji, Zhi-Jia Li, Ke Li, Yun-Xiao Wang, Bo Yang, Lin-Lin Lv, Ying Su, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Zhong-Chao Huo, Qing Qi, Yong-Chang Lu, Zhi-Qiang Cui, Yan-Bao Liu 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):2995-3003. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.2995
Observational Study
Azianah Mohamad Ibrahim, Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Arimi Fitri Mat Ludin, Noor Ibrahim Mohamed Sakian, Nurul Fatin Malek Rivan, Suzana Shahar 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):3076-3085. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.3076
Randomized Clinical Trial
Clinical and Translational Research
Xing-Long Huang, Lu-Na Wu, Qin Huang, Yue Zhou, Lei Qing, Feng Xiong, Hui-Ping Dong, Tai-Min Zhou, Kai-Li Wang, Jue Liu 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):3105-3122. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.3105
Case Report
Midion Mapfumo Chidzonga, Leonard Mahomva, Blessing Zambuko, Welcome Muungani 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):3138-3143. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.3138
Ming-Wang Zhou, Peng-Wei Zhang, An-Le Zhang, Chang-Hao Wei, Yu-De Xu, Wei Chen, Zhi-Bin Fu 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):3144-3150. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.3144
Shi-Wan Wang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Jin-Xiu Qu, Yi-Zhong Rao, Shuai Lu, Bing Wang, Jia He, Yuan Zhao, Ben-Qiang Rao 
World J Clin Cases 12(17):3168-3176. Published online Jun 16, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i17.3168
Letter to the Editor