Journal of Hepatology is the leading publication in the field of liver disease and the flagship journal of the European Association for the Study of the Liver.

Journal of Hepatology aims to publish cutting-edge basic, translational, and clinical research describing novel mechanisms of disease and new management strategies in hepatology. It publishes original peer reviewed research articles, reviews, expert opinions, and letters to the Editor on the following topics:
Metabolic Associated Steatotic Liver Disease(MASLD),
Alcohol-related Liver Diseases,
Viral Hepatitis,
Drug-induced Liver Injury,
Autoimmune, Cholestatic and Genetic Diseases,
Acute liver failure,
Cirrhosis and its complications,
Acute on Chronic Liver failure,
Hepatic and Biliary Cancer,
Liver Transplantation,
Experimental and Translational Hepatology,
Innovative Diagnostics,
Modelling and Digital Hepatology,
Paediatric Hepatology.
Submissions likely to have an impact on clinical practice are particularly welcomed.

Since 2019, JHEPAT also has a gold open access companion title JHEP Reports.

Fast-track peer review
Original articles
Review articles and Seminars
Special sections

Editor-in-Chief
Rajiv Jalan, PhD
London, United Kingdom
Senior Editor
Richard Moreau
Beaujon Hospital Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support Department, Clichy, France
Co-Editors
Ramon Bataller, MD, PhD
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Thomas Berg, MD
Leipzig, Germany
Sophie Lotersztajn
Paris, France
Jessica Zucman-Rossi, MD, PhD
Paris, France
Editorial Office
Duncan Anderson, MD
Editorial Coordinator
Pablo Echeverria
Scientific Illustrator
Joana Martins
Administrative Editor
Joël Walicki
Editorial Office Manager
Associate Editors
Alcohol-Related Liver Diseases
Christophe Moreno
Erasmus Hospital, Bruxelles, Belgium
Cholestatic Diseases
Ulrich Beuers
Academic Medical Center Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Complications of Cirrhosis
Paolo Angeli
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Vijay Shah, MD
Mayo Clinic Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Genetics
Frank Lammert
Saarland University Hospital Internal Medicine III Cardiology Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Homburg, Germany
Immunology
David Adams
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Liver Cancer
Diego Calvisi
University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Jean-Charles Nault
French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France
Bruno Sangro
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Augusto Villanueva, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Division of Liver Diseases, New York, United States
Liver Failure
R. Todd Stravitz
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Liver Fibrosis
Fabio Marra
University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Liver Surgery and Transplantation
Daniel Cherqui
Hospital Paul Brousse, Villejuif, France
François Durand
Beaujon Hospital Department of Hepatology, Clichy, France
Modelling Outcomes and Hepatology
Raphaël Porcher
Hotel-Dieu Hospital Clinical Epidemiology Centre, Paris, France
NAFLD
Elisabetta Bugianesi
University of Turin, Torino, Italy
Jacob George
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Pathology
Valerie Paradis
Hospital Beaujon, Clichy, France
Peter Schirmacher
University Hospital Heidelberg Department of Orthopaedics Emergency Surgery and Paraplegia, Heidelberg, Germany
Radiology
Luigi Bolondi
University Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy
Regeneration
Pau Sancho-Bru
August Pi i Sunyer Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain
Viral Hepatitis
Henry Chan
Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, New Territories, Hong Kong
Jordan Feld
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Darius Moradpour
University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Christoph Sarrazin
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Special Section Editors
Clinical Trial Watch, News and Views and Comments Section
Xavier Forns
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Grand Rounds
Patrizia Burra
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
P. Kamath
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Reviews, Seminars and Debates
Vicente Arroyo
European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure, Barcelona, Spain
Massimo Colombo
Hospital Polyclinic Maggiore, Milano, Italy
Philippe Mathurin
Regional and University Hospital Centre Lille, Lille, France
Vlad Ratziu
Hostpital Pitie-Salpetriere Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service, Paris, France
Heiner Wedemeyer
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Snapshot
Massimo Pinzani
University of Florence Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Firenze, Italy
Christian Trautwein
University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Website
Markus Cornberg
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Frank Tacke
Charite University Hospital Berlin Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology (including Metabolic Diseases), Berlin, Germany
Editorial Board
Alcohol-Related Liver Diseases
Juan G. Abraldes
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Jose Altamirano
Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Ewan Forrest
Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Bin Gao
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Rockville, Maryland, United States
Alexander Louvet
Claude Huriez Hospital, Lille, France
Michael Lucey
University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Ashwani K. Singal
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Hidekazu Tsukamoto
University of Southern California Department of Pathology, Los Angeles, California, United States
Animal Models
Nathan Davies
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Basic Science
Gianfranco Alpini
Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Matias A. Avila
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Sabine Colnot
French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France
Jordi Gracia-Sancho
August Pi i Sunyer Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain
Laura Gramantieri
University Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy
Sanjeev Gupta
Yeshiva University Division of Gastroenterology, New York, New York, United States
Yasuko Iwakiri, PhD
Yale University Department of Digestive Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Hartmut Jaeschke, MD
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
Mala Maini, PhD FRCP FMedSci
University College London Division of Infection and Immunity, London, United Kingdom
Charles Rice
Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States
Christopher Rose
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jean Rosenbaum
Physiopathology of Neurone Plasticity, Bordeaux, France
Bernd Schnabl
University of California at San Diego Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, La Jolla, California, United States
Robert Schwabe, MD
Columbia University Department of Medicine, New York, United States
Cholestasis and Autoimmune Diseases
Jesus Banales
Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Peter Fickert
Hospital of the Federal State of Styria and University Hospital Graz Department of Internal Medicine, Graz, Austria
Stan van de Graaf
Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gideon Hirschfield
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Pietro Invernizzi
Clinical Institute Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy
Xiong Ma
Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Fahua Campus, Shanghai, China
Alberto Sánchez-Fueyo
King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Michael Trauner
Medical University of Vienna Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Wien, Austria
Cirrhosis, Liver Failure, Infection
Soon Koo Baik
Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea, Republic of
Jasmohan Bajaj
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
William Bernal
King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Annalisa Berzigotti
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Paolo Caraceni
University Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy
Yogesh K Chawla
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
Srinivasan Dasarathy
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Javier Fernandez
Clinic Barcelona Hospital University, Barcelona, Spain
Juan Carlos Garcia-Pagan
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Pere Gines
Clinic Barcelona Hospital Institute of the Chest, Barcelona, Spain
Thierry Gustot, MD, PhD
Erasmus Hospital, Bruxelles, Belgium
Wim Laleman
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Lanjuan Li
Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China
Søren Møller
Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sara Montagnese
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Rajeshwar Prosad Mookerjee, BSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCP
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Chirag Parikh, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Salvatore Piano, MD, PhD
University of Padova Department of Medicine, Padova, Italy
Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou, MD, PhD
Hospital Beaujon, Clichy, France
Oliviero Riggio, MD
University of Rome La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Shiv K. Sarin, MD, DM
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences Department of Hepatology, New Delhi, India
Rudolph Stauber
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Dominique Thabut, PD, PhD
AP-HP, Sorbonne University, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Hepato-Gastroenterology Department, Paris, France
Jonel Trebicka, MD PhD
Hospital of the Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Medicine I Gastroenterology Hepatology Pneumology Allergology Endocrinology Diabetology, Frankfurt, Germany
Armando Tripodi
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Reiner Wiest
Inselspital University Hospital Bern Department of Visceral Surgery and Medicine, Berne, Switzerland
Drugs
Naga Chalasani, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Neil Kaplowitz
University of Southern California Department of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, United States
Endoscopy
Andrés Cárdenas
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Stephen Pereira
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Epidemiology
Peter Jepsen
Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Fibrosis
Krista Rombouts
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Detlef Schuppan
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Genetic Liver Diseases
Felix Stickel
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Christian P. Strassburg
University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Liver Cancer
Ghassan Abou-Alfa
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
Gen-Sheng Feng
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States
Richard Finn
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
Tim Greten, MD
National Cancer Institute, Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch, Bethesda, United States
Kwang-Hyub Han
Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Yujin Hoshida
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States
Josep Llovet
Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer, Barcelona, Spain
Pierre Nahon
Hospital Jean Verdier, Bondy, France
Markus Peck-Radosavljevic
Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
Morris Sherman, MB BCh PhD, FRCP(C)
University Health Network Research Ethics Board, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Andreas Teufel
University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
Chris Verslype
KU Leuven University Hospitals Leuven Campus Gasthuisberg Hematology Department, Leuven, Belgium
Andrew Zhu
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Liver Support
Rafael Bañares
General University hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
Scott Nyberg
Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
NAFLD
Guruprasad Aithal
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Quentin Anstee
Newcastle University Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Helena Cortez-Pinto
Saint Mary's Hospital, Lisboa, Portugal
Henning Grønbæk
Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Rohit Loomba
University of California San Diego Department of Medicine, La Jolla, California, United States
Jude Oben
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Manuel Romero-Gómez
University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
Arun Sanyal
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Herbert Tilg
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Vincent Wong, MBChB(Hons), MD, FRCP, FHKCP, FHKAM
Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, New Territories, Hong Kong
Non-invasive Methods
Nezam Afdhal
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Laurent Castera
Beaujon Hospital Department of Hepatology, Clichy, France
William Rosenberg
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Paediatrics
Anil Dhawan
King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Valérie Vilgrain, MD
Hospital Beaujon AP-HP Department of Radiology, Clichy, France
Pathology
Massimo Roncalli
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Radiology
Riccardo Lencioni
University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States
Jens Ricke
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
Rare Diseases
James Dooley
University College London, London, United Kingdom
Regeneration
George K. Michalopoulos, MD, PhD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Phillip Newsome
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Statistics
Jeremie Guedj
French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France
Marco Pavesi
Clinic Barcelona Hospital University, Barcelona, Spain
Surgery
Pierre-Alain Clavien, MD, PhD, FACS (Hon)
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Kim M. Olthoff, MD
University of Pennsylvania Hillel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Transplantation
Marina Berenguer, MD
La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital, Valencia, Spain
Claire Francoz
Hospital Beaujon, Clichy, France
Geoffrey McCaughan
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
John O'Grady
King's College Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Arvinder Soin
Medanta The Medicity, Gurgaon, India
Viral Hepatitis
Kosh Agarwal
King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Alessio Aghemo
Hospital Polyclinic Maggiore, Milano, Italy
Sang Hoon Ahn
Yonsei University College of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Maria Buti
Vall d'Hebron Research Institute Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group, Barcelona, Spain
Harry Dalton
Royal Truro Hospital Department of Gastroenterology, Treliske, Truro, United Kingdom
Graham Foster
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
Adrian Gadano
Instituto Universitario del Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Markus Heim
University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Christophe Hezode
Hospital Henri Mondor, Creteil, France
Harry L.A. Janssen, MD, PhD
Toronto Centre for Liver Disease Francis Family Liver Clinic, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pietro Lampertico
University of Milan, Milano, Italy
Christoph Lange
Research Center Borstel Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany
Beat Müllhaupt
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Francesco Negro
University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
George Papatheodoridis
Athens Medical Society, Athens, Greece
Fred Poordad
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States
Mario Rizzetto
University of Turin, Torino, Italy
Ulrich Spengler
University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Robert Thimme
University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Ola Weiland
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Xinxin Zhang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medical School Affiliated Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China
Incoming Editorial Board
Incoming Editor-in-Chief
Paolo Angeli
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Deputy Editor
Patrizia Burra
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Co-Editors
Vlad Ratziu
Hostpital Pitie-Salpetriere Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service, Paris, France
Bruno Sangro
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Frank Tacke
Charite University Hospital Berlin Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology (including Metabolic Diseases), Berlin, Germany
Stefan Zeuzem
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Incoming Associate Editors
Alcohol and Drug-Related Liver Disease
Einar S. Björnsson
National University Hospital of Iceland Landspitali Department of Internal Medicine Divison of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Reykjavík, Iceland
Alexander Louvet
Claude Huriez Hospital, Lille, France
Cholestatic Diseases
Tom H. Karlsen
Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Complications of Cirrhosis and Liver Failure
Paolo Caraceni
University Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, Italy
Javier Fernandez
Clinic Barcelona Hospital University, Barcelona, Spain
Constantine Karvellas
University of Alberta, Department of Critical Care Medicine and Liver Unit, Division of Gastroenterology, Edmonton, Canada
Disease Burden and Public Health
Zobair M Younossi
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, United States
Genetics
Matias A. Avila
University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
Gut-Liver Axis
Jonel Trebicka
Hospital of the Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Medicine I Gastroenterology Hepatology Pneumology Allergology Endocrinology Diabetology, Frankfurt, Germany
Hepatic and Biliary Cancer
Jesper Andersen
University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
Stephen L. Chan
Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Clinical Oncology, Shatin, Hong Kong
Jean-Charles Nault
French Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France
Maria Reig
Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer, Barcelona, Spain
Imaging and Non-Invasive Tests
Annalisa Berzigotti
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Rita Golfieri
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Immunology
Barbara Rehermann
Bethesda, United States
Liver Fibrosis
Massimo Pinzani
University of Florence Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Firenze, Italy
Liver Surgery and Transplantation
Pierre-Alain Clavien
University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Francesco Paolo Russo
University of Padova Department of Surgical Oncology and Gastroenterology, Padova, Italy
NAFLD
Quentin Anstee
Newcastle University Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Elisabetta Bugianesi
University of Turin, Torino, Italy
Jacob George
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Waj Mehal
YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, New Haven, United States
Pathology
Christine Sempoux
University Hospital Lausanne University Institute of Pathology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Radiology
Rita Golfieri
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Statistics, A.I., and Modeling Outcomes
Eva Herrmann
Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Marco Pavesi
Clinic Barcelona Hospital University, Barcelona, Spain
Raphaël Porcher
Hotel-Dieu Hospital Clinical Epidemiology Centre, Paris, France
Vascular Liver Disease
Jordi Gracia-Sancho
August Pi i Sunyer Institute of Biomedical Research, Barcelona, Spain
Viral Hepatitis
Thomas Baumert
Institute of Viral and Liver Disease, Strasbourg, France
Maria Buti
Vall d'Hebron Research Institute Diabetes and Metabolism Research Group, Barcelona, Spain
Markus Cornberg
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Edward John Gane
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Man-Fung Yuen
University of Hong Kong Department of Medicine, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Incoming Reviews Editor
Reviews, Seminars and Debates
Richard Moreau
Beaujon Hospital Gastroenterology and Nutrition Support Department, Clichy, France
Incoming Special Section Editors
Special Section Editors
Sara Montagnese
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Alexander Ploss
Princeton University, Princeton, United States
Incoming Web/Social Media Editors
Web/Social Media Editors
Jesus Banales
Biodonostia Health Research Institute, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
Elliot Tapper
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States