  In this paper I present a detailed QCD analysis of twist-3 effects in the
Wandzura-Wilczek (WW) approximation in deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS)
observables for various kinematical settings, representing the HERA, HERMES,
CLAS and the planned EIC (electron-ion-collider) experiments. I find that the
twist-3 effects in the WW approximation are almost always negligible at
collider energies but can be large for low Q^2 and smaller x_bj in observables
for the lower energy, fixed target experiments directly sensitive to the real
part of DVCS amplitudes like the charge asymmetry (CA). Conclusions are then
drawn about the reliability of extracting twist-2 generalized parton
distributions (GPDs) from experimental data and a first, phenomenological,
parameterization of the LO and NLO twist-2 GPD $H$, describing all the
currently available DVCS data within the experimental errors is given.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology