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Reviewer of the Month (2025)

In 2025, TGH reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2025)

In 2025, many authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspectives and insightful views as authors.

TGH 2024 Annual Report

Greetings from the Editorial Office of Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH)!

We are pleased to share with you the 2024 Annual Report of TGH. 2024 has seen much progress for the journal:

TGH received its impact factor update for the 2023 citation year: 3.8.
TGH has published 77 articles in 2024 and TGH authors mainly come from USA.
TGH website has obtained 261,674 pageviews from 100,777 users in 2024 (Data Source: Google Analytics on Dec. 31, 2024).
Number of total citations by articles indexed in Web of Science Core Collection has significantly increased to 6,108 (updated on Jan 2, 2025).

Interviews with Editorial Board Members

TGH features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

New Impact Factor for Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology: 3.8

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2023 citation year: 3.8.

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2023 CiteScore Released: 8.2

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 8.2, ranking 21 out of 167 journals in the Gastroenterology category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH) is among the list of COPE membership.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to TGH from March 19, 2020.

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Case Report

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Editorial Commentary

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Case Report

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Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed online journal providing current and practical information on diagnosis, prevention and clinical investigations of gastrointestinal, pancreas, gallbladder and hepatic diseases.