Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System
Open Access

Journal of Gastrointestinal & Digestive System (JGDS) extends a warm welcome to the researchers, scholars, academicians, clinical and medical practitioners to contribute their original research on Gastrointestinal & Digestive System. As well as reflecting the traditional core subjects of gastrointestinal diseases, associated disorders, and their treatment, stomach and ulcer medicine etc. I am pleased to announce that, till now all issues of volume 12 were published online well within the time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online during the year of 2021. The Journals aims to flourish and to maintain the standards in research and practice provide platform and opportunity to present the interface of Gastrointestinal and other scientific field’s related scope of the journal, and probably the journal aims to be the voice of the overall Gastrointestinal & Digestive System academic group.

JGDS impact factor for the year 2021 was 0.75. All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Global Impact Factor (GIF), Publons, Open J Gate, CAS Source Index (CASSI), RefSeek, International committee of medical journals editors (ICMJE), OCLC- WorldCat, EBSCO A-Z, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Hamdard University, Sherpa Romeo, Studies receiving funding from a funding organization that is included on the list of PMC and Research Funder Policies or authors having NIH grant were submitted to Google Scholar. During the calendar year of 2021, JGDS received a total of 60 manuscripts, out of which 18 articles were rejected in the preliminary screening due to plagiarism or being out of the format and peer review process. During 2021 around 42 articles were subjected for publication after they are accepted in the peer review process.

1th issue of Volume 12 published during the year of 2022, a total of 5 articles were published (at an average of 5 articles per issue) of which, articles were published from authors all around the world. Globally articles have been accessed by the research scientists and also cited.

During the calendar year 2021, a total of two Editors, five Reviewers joined the board of JGDS and contributed their valuable services towards contribution as well as publication of articles, and their valuable reviewer comments will beneficial to publish quality of article in the Journal.

I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Ayman I. Sayegh (USA), and Francesco Marotta (Italy) during the final editing of articles published and the support rendered by the editorial assistant, in bringing out issues of JGDS in time [1-10].

I would also like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, the publisher, the advisory and the editorial board of JGDS, the office bearers for their support in bringing out yet another volume of JGDS and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the Volume 12 of JGDS in scheduled time.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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