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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
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
Deb Sanjay Nag, Bhanu Pratap Swain, Rishi Anand, Tapas Kumar Barman, Vatsala 
World J Clin Cases 12(12):2016-2022. Published online Apr 26, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i12.2016
Minireviews
Tsvetelina Velikova, Georgi Vasilev, Russka Shumnalieva, Lyubomir Chervenkov, Dimitrina Georgieva Miteva, Milena Gulinac, Stamatios Priftis, Snezhina Lazova 
World J Clin Cases 12(12):2031-2039. Published online Apr 26, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i12.2031
Retrospective Study
Clinical Trials Study
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Yun-Sen He, Xiao-Hong Qin, Min Feng, Qin-Jiang Huang, Meng-Jun Zhang, Li-Li Guo, Ming-Bin Bao, Ye Tao, Hong-Yuan Dai, Bo Wu 
World J Clin Cases 12(12):2065-2073. Published online Apr 26, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i12.2065
Wan-Ling Xu, Wen-Jing Tang, Wei-Ying Yang, Li-Chao Sun, Ze-Qun Zhang, Wei Li, Xiu-Xian Zang 
World J Clin Cases 12(12):2074-2078. Published online Apr 26, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i12.2074
Letter to the Editor
Rafael Calleja, Manuel Durán, María Dolores Ayllón, Ruben Ciria, Javier Briceño 
World J Clin Cases 12(12):2134-2137. Published online Apr 26, 2024. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v12.i12.2134