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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.

Reviewer of the Month (2024)

In 2024, 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.

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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Editorial Commentary

KEYNOTE-585: disappointing results for perioperative pembrolizumab in gastric cancer

David H. Ilson

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Case Report

Multimodal combination regimen for a patient with advanced huge hepatocellular carcinoma: a case report

Shan Li, Zhen-Feng Zhou, Hao-Jian Long, Jia-Xin Yin, Hui-Zhong Wang, Jian-Fu Zhao

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Review Article

Enhancing the management of acute and gangrenous cholecystitis: a systematic review supported by the TriNetX database

Nicolò Fabbri, Salvatore Greco, Antonio Pesce, Francesco Virgilio, Luca Bonazza, Luca Bagnoli, Carlo V. Feo

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Reproductive and sexual health concerns in gastrointestinal illness: a narrative review

Katrina S. Hacker, Alyse Bedell

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Review Article

The current progress and futural prospects of ultrasound-targeted microbubble destruction for liver diseases: a narrative review

Bing-Jie Yang, Hai-Feng Zhou, Yu Liu, Wei Yang, Jia Li, Wei-Zhong Zhou

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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroenterostomy: a review

Edwin Golikov, Jessica Widmer

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Current status of artificial intelligence analysis for the diagnosis of gallbladder diseases using ultrasonography: a scoping review

Xiuming Wang, Huabin Zhang, Zhiyong Bai, Xia Xie, Yue Feng

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Review Article

Chemopreventive strategies for sporadic colorectal cancer: a narrative review

Savanna Monson, Pin-Jung Chen, Alexandra Gangi, Kevin Waters, Sandrine Billet, Andrew Hendifar, Shelly Lu, Jason A. Zell, Jun Gong

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Review Article

Elimination of hepatitis C in the Middle East: a narrative review of the efficacy of direct-acting antiviral therapies

Catherine Coxeter-Smith, Ria B. Gaglani, Robert D. Ingram, Oliver T. Kidd, Anjana S. Kumar, Amin Alhadad, Laith Alrubaiy

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Original Article

Decreased overall survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ulrike Bauer, Cornelia Fütterer, Rickmer F. Braren, Petia Trifonov, Roland M. Schmid, Katrin Böttcher, Ursula Ehmer

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Original Article

Lymph node metastases status in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: a single-center cross-sectional study

Anh Tuan Nguyen, Van Hiep Pham, Manh Thang Tran, Pham Nghia Do Nguyen

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Original Article

Pan-gastrointestinal adenocarcinoma analysis uncovers the prognostic and immune correlates of ferroptosis-related genes

Xiaochuan Dong, Yanyan Xie, Wenxi Chen, Mengjiang He, Hua Liu, Bin Wang, Yu Xu, Qiaoxia Zhou, Tengfei Zhu, Guoqiang Wang, Chunwei Xu, Wenxian Wang, Shangli Cai, Meili Xu, Jingjing Wang

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Original Article

A 13-year nationwide analysis of outcomes of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in post-bariatric surgery patients

James R. Pellegrini Jr, Andrej M. Sodoma, Samuel Greenberg, Sonika Rathi, Nicholas Knott, Richard Pellegrini, Jaspreet Singh

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Original Article

Evaluation of hepatitis B virus reactivation prevention measures in immunosuppressed patients: current status and effectiveness

Toru Ishikawa, Mitsuyuki Suzuki, Terasu Honma, Toshiaki Yoshida

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Original Article

Unravelling risk factors for delayed bleeding following ultrasonography-guided liver biopsy: a retrospective analysis

Tao Jiang, Qunying Li, Ju Li, Tianan Jiang

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Co-existing regeneration mechanisms in severe alcohol-related steatohepatitis

Adrienne Lejeune, Peter Stärkel, Alexandre Louvet, Axel Hittelet, Céline Bazille, Boris Bastens, Hans Orlent, Luc Lasser, Xavier Dekoninck, Sergio Negrin Dastis, Jean Delwaide, Anja Geerts, Christophe Moreno, Chantal de Galocsy, Virginie Putzeys, Phillippe Langlet, Hendrik Reynaert, Sven Francque, Mina Komuta, Nicolas Lanthier; On behalf of the Belgian Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL)

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Staged preoperative evaluation of potential living donors for liver transplantation

Camila Sotomayor, Daniel García, Patricia Rebolledo, Maria Pilar Dominguez, Antonia Pastoré, Pablo Achurra, Eduardo Viñuela, Juan Pablo Arab, Carlos Benitez, Alvaro Huete, Eduardo Briceño, Jorge Martinez, Nicolas Jarufe, Martin J. Dib

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Editorial

The synthesis of the psychosocial and the physiological aspects of chronic digestive disease is at a crossroads

Sara H. Marchese, Tiffany H. Taft

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Letter to the Editor

Identifying alcoholic liver disease patients using electronic health records within an integrated health system

Eric K. Kwong, Amandeep K. Sahota, Rui Yan, Peggy Hung, John J. Sim

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

2024;

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Case Report

An acute progressing hepatic angiosarcoma in a young male diagnosed by contrast-enhanced ultrasound-guided liver needle biopsy: a case report

Shaojie Chen, Wei Huang, Yuhong Yuan, Xiaofeng Li, Shineng Zhang, Lingyun Wang

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology

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Editorial Commentary

Neoadjuvant mFOLFIRINOX for resectable pancreatic cancer: increasing evidence, ongoing challenges

Taylor Neilson, Jordan M. Cloyd

Published online: 24 March 2025

Original Article

Non-linear relationship between Dietary Inflammatory Index and constipation: threshold identification and insights from NHANES [2005–2010] and Mendelian randomization analysis

Shuxun Wei, Jin Qian, Minghao Zou, Ye Qian, Wenxuan Zhou, Yangjuan Gu, Lili Tang, Hui Liu, Chengjing Zhang

Published online: 14 March 2025

Original Article

Development and validation of a basement membrane-associated immune prognostic model for hepatocellular carcinoma

Qiji Ma, Yun Wang, Jie Xing, Tielin Wang, Gang Wang

Published online: 24 February 2025

Review Article

Classification of nodal stations in gastric cancer

Fausto Rosa, Guido Costamagna, Giovanni Battista Doglietto, Sergio Alfieri

Published online: 17 January 2017

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Review Article

Branched-chain amino acids in liver diseases

Kazuto Tajiri, Yukihiro Shimizu

Published online: 30 July 2018

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Review Article

Clinical presentation of alcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: spectrum and diagnosis

Praveen Sharma, Anil Arora

Published online: 05 April 2020

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Epidemiology of non-alcoholic and alcoholic fatty liver diseases

Souveek Mitra, Arka De, Abhijit Chowdhury

Published online: 05 April 2020

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CT and MRI imaging and interpretation of hepatic arterioportal shunts

Qiushi Wang, Leonidas G. Koniaris, Daniel P. Milgrom, Aash Patel, Maoqing Hu, Enming Cui, Yu Deng, Fatih Akisik

Published online: 21 May 2019

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Differential diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor by histopathology and immunohistochemistry

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Published online: 12 May 2018

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Diagnosis of early gastric cancer using image enhanced endoscopy: a systematic approach

Masaki Miyaoka, Kenshi Yao, Hiroshi Tanabe, Takao Kanemitsu, Kensei Otsu, Kentaro Imamura, Yoichiro Ono, Satoshi Ishikawa, Tatsuhisa Yasaka, Toshiharu Ueki, Atsuko Ota, Seiji Haraoka, Akinori Iwashita

Published online: 05 October 2020

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Repurposing N-acetylcysteine for management of non-acetaminophen induced acute liver failure: an evidence scan from a global health perspective

Rebecca N. Jerome, Laura A. Zahn, Jessica J. Abner, Meghan M. Joly, Jana K. Shirey-Rice, Robert S. Wallis, Gordon R. Bernard, Jill M. Pulley

Published online: 18 January 2024

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Different types of pancreatico-enteric anastomosis

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Published online: 14 November 2017

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Diffuse gastric cancer: histologic, molecular, and genetic basis of disease

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Published online: 05 October 2020

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Gastrointestinal cancers: current biomarkers in esophageal and gastric adenocarcinoma

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Published online: 05 October 2020

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Palliative chemotherapy in pancreatic cancer—treatment sequences

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Published online: 01 August 2019

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Pathology of pancreatic cancer

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Published online: 27 June 2019

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Published online: 24 October 2017

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Published online: 23 April 2018

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Published online: 18 September 2018

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Published online: 09 January 2018

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Published online: 12 December 2017

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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.