About this journal

Aims and scope

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal focusing on all aspects of gastroenterology research, as well as clinical results in human, animal and in vitro studies that shed light on disease processes and potential new therapies.

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.

Specific topics covered by the journal include:

  • Pathology and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal diseases (including in the liver, gall bladder and pancreas)
  • Investigation and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases
  • Pharmacology of drugs in the alimentary tract
  • Immunology, genetics and genomics related to gastrointestinal diseases
  • Patient safety and quality of care for gastrointestinal diseases

The journal accepts papers in the form of original research, short reports, editorials, reviews, and commentaries.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 68K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 2.5 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 2.8 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 5.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.906 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.782 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:

Andreas M. Kaiser, (Professor) Division of Colorectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Associate Editors-in-Chief:

Everson L.A. Artifon, (Associate Professor), Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Santosh Shenoy, (Surgeon), Department of Surgey, Kansas City Veterans Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Vipul Yagnik, (Associate Professor), Department of Surgery, Nishtha Surgical Hospital and Research Centre, Patan, Gujarat, India

Editorial Board

Yoshio Aizawa, (Professor), Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Minato, Japan

Qiang Cai, (Professor), Division of Digestive Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Geogia, USA

Roger Feakins, (Consultant), Royal Free Hospital, London, UK

Steven-Huy Han, (Professor), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, USA

Syed Adeel Hassan (Research Coordinator), Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Masaru Katoh, (Staff Scientist), Department of Omics Network, National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan and M & M Precision Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Sunil Krishnan, (Clinical and Principal Investigator), UTHealth Houston, Texas, USA

Artem Minalyan, (Fellow), Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, California, USA

Hiroto Miwa, (Professor Emeritus), Kawanishi City Medical Center, Hyogo, Japan

Christopher O'Brien, (Professor), Divisions of Liver and Gastrointestinal Transplantation, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

Magnus Simrén, (Principal Investigator and Adjuncy Professor0, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

David I Watson, (Professor), Discipline of Surgery, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Australia

Charles Wilcox, (Professor Emeritus), Division of Gastroenterology, Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute, Orlando, Florida, USA

Chencheng Xie, (Assistant Professor), University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

Abstracting and indexing

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EMBASE (Elsevier)

Pubmed (NLM)

PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Open access

Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

To publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis. Discounts and waivers may also be available for researchers in selected countries when publishing in open access journals.

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