World Journal of Gastroenterology: impact and ranking
World Journal of Gastroenterology has a 2-year mean citedness of 4.22 in OpenAlex, which ranks #2,395 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 262. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.22 #2,395 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 262 #756 of 18,122
- Citations
- 888k #427 of 18,122
- Works
- 24k 37.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of World Journal of Gastroenterology?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for World Journal of Gastroenterology: 4.22, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks World Journal of Gastroenterology #2,395 of 18,122 journals, in the top 13%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of World Journal of Gastroenterology?
OpenAlex gives World Journal of Gastroenterology an h-index of 262: 262 of its papers have each been cited at least 262 times. That ranks #756 of 18,122 journals.
How much does World Journal of Gastroenterology publish?
OpenAlex records 23,689 works in World Journal of Gastroenterology from 1823 to 2026, cited 887,678 times in all, 37.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #427 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About World Journal of Gastroenterology
- Publisher
- Baishideng Publishing Group
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 1007-9327
- In OpenAlex
- 1823 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list World Journal of Gastroenterology as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- Website
- www.wjgnet.com
- OpenAlex record
- S181459644
Journals ranked near World Journal of Gastroenterology
The journals with a page that stand just above and below World Journal of Gastroenterology on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,323 | Journal of Neuroscience | 4.29 | 651 |
| 2,349 | Journal of Chromatography A | 4.26 | 319 |
| 2,380 | NeuroImage | 4.23 | 523 |
| 2,398 | Poultry Science | 4.22 | 229 |
| 2,404 | Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 4.22 | 398 |
| 2,423 | The Economic Journal | 4.19 | 435 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.