Integrity of the editing and publishing process is the basis for improving an academic journal's Impact Factor

Journal Impact Factor™ (JIF) is often used to evaluate the relative reputation and quality of academic journals in their respective fields, and can greatly influence the quality and scope of subsequent manuscript submissions. Therefore, many if not all academic journals are interested in increasing their JIF to improve their academic impact. To determine the importance of the integrity of the editorial and publication process in improving the academic influence of academic journals and the JIF of academic journals. In this paper, we describe our statistical analysis of bibliometric factors - including the 2021 JIFs released in the 2022, discipline rankings, received and published articles in 2019-2021, and webpage visits and downloads - for seven journals published by Baishideng Publishing Group (Baishideng) and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded™; ultimately, we introduce and discuss the editing and publishing processes of Baishideng's journals in their entirety, as they form the basis for our objective of safeguarding and bolstering integrity in academic publication. For the seven journals assessed, their 2021 JIFs were basically unchanged from 2020, with the current metric ranging from 5.374 for ( ) to 1.534 for ( ). Further assessments of the journals' bibliometrics from 2019 to 2020, showed that has the highest self-citation rate (1.43%) and has the lowest (0.21%). Additionally, the total 3012 articles published during this period were cited by more than 20000 articles in approximately 8000 academic journals. Of note, the 1102 articles published in were cited by articles in 3059 journals, among which 171 journals have a JIF of > 10, including internationally renowned academic journals such as (2021 JIF 286.130, record count: 1) (2021 JIF 202.731, record count: 4) (2021 JIF 108.555, record count: 2), (2021 JIF 73.082, record count: 9), (2021 JIF 45.042, record count: 8), (2021 JIF 33.883, record count: 19), and (2021 JIF 31.793, record count: 21). This suggests that Baishideng's journals have been widely recognized for their academic quality. In the ( ) database, all seven Baishideng-published journals obtained a 2022 ( ). For example, has a 2022 of 22.048, ranking 18 out of 102 journals in the field of gastroenterology & hepatology in the , with 469909 total citations (6/102) and 21313 total articles (5/102). The numbers of manuscripts received and published in 2021 were both higher than those in 2019-2020. For example, received a total of 365