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TGH 2025 Annual Report

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

We’re glad to present the 2025 Annual Report of TGH. The newly released Impact Factor of TGH is 2.5.

We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our editorial board members, reviewers, authors and readers. We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2026 and we look forward to working with you to continue the success of TGH.

Congratulations on Jiafu Ji being elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering

On November 21, 2025, the results of the 2025 academician elections for China's two highest academic institutions—the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)—were announced. The CAE elected 100 new academicians, and the CAS elected 95 new academicians. Academician status in the CAE and CAS represents the highest lifelong honor in the fields of engineering and science in China. New academicians are elected every two years through a rigorous multi‑round selection process.

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology Adopts Bimonthly Frequency from January 2026

To better serve the global community and accommodate a rising volume of high-quality submissions, Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology will transition from quarterly to bimonthly publication, effective January 2026. The regular publication months will be January, March, May, July, September, November.

This strategic decision underscores the journal's rapid growth and influence since its launch in March 2016. The increased frequency is a direct response to the sustained support from authors and the academic community, ensuring that pivotal, practice-changing research reaches readers and practitioners with minimal delay after acceptance.

AME and Wolters Kluwer aim to expand access to global medical research through new collaboration

The agreement broadens the reach of nearly 50 Open Access titles, contributing globally to over 5,000 articles

October 2, 2025 — Wolters Kluwer Health announced a new collaboration with AME Publishing Company, an Open Access publisher specializing in medical journals and books, headquartered in Hong Kong, China.

New Impact Factor for Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology: 2.5

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2024 citation year: 2.5 (Figure 1).

Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2024 CiteScore Released: 5.6

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology (TGH) has achieved its 2024 CiteScore: 5.6, ranking 41 out of 173 journals in the Gastroenterology category and 30 out of 87 journals in the Hepatology category. This milestone underscores our ongoing commitment to publishing impactful research in the field.

Reviewer of the Month (2026)

In 2026, 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 (2026)

In 2026, 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.

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.

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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Review Article

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Anders Lehmann, Peter J. Kahrilas

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Enhancing future liver remnant hypertrophy: innovative preoperative strategies and emerging technologies

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Cholecystectomy-induced gut dysbiosis and its consequences: bridging animal models and clinical outcomes in narrative review

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The impact of sedation on adenoma and polyp detection rates in colonoscopy: an evidence-informed narrative review

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Non-technical skills in the management of endoscopic adverse events

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Emphysematous gastritis: a systematic review of reported cases exploring predictors of mortality

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A comprehensive narrative review of artificial intelligence use in the diagnosis and management of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease

Azfar Niazi, Bipneet Singh, Carol Singh, Nimish Thakral, Akash Batta, Aalam Sohal

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Original Article

FibroX: a machine learning model for detecting and prognosticating advanced fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease

Basile Njei, Yazan A. Al-Ajlouni, Ysabel Ilagan-Ying, Omar Al Ta’ani, Sarpong Boateng, Nelvis Njei, Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye, Joseph Lim, Bubu Banini

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Landscape of clinical trials and impact of precision medicine in biliary tract cancers in the last 45 years: a systematic review and meta-analysis of biomarker-driven randomized trials

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Ectopic physiological portal vein reconstruction in liver transplantation for benign portal vein thrombosis

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Effect of preoperative biliary drainage on peripheral circulating tumor cells after pancreaticoduodenectomy in patients with resectable periampullary carcinoma and obstructive jaundice

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Monocyte to apolipoprotein A1 ratio as a novel biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma: a retrospective study

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Molecular characteristics of Chinese colorectal cancer patients with microsatellite instability

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Assessing gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) threat 5 years following laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy (LVSG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB): which measure of association is appropriate, odds ratio (OR) or relative risk (RR)?

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Prognostic impact of nodal classification systems in rectal adenocarcinoma: a retrospective cohort study

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Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting postoperative survival in gallbladder cancer

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CT-defined sarcopenia as a predictive factor in patients undergoing portal vein embolization: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Editorial Commentary

Rethinking the Siewert classification in the era of precision oncology

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Editorial Commentary

Intratumoral oncolytic virotherapy in pancreatic cancer: from feasibility to immune priming

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Editorial Commentary

Genomics of gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas and the Siewert classification

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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.