Transplant International (TI) has had a busy year in 2025 and the start of a new year is an opportunity to thank our authors, reviewers and editors for the quality effort consented to make TI an ever improving and impactful journal. As an indicator of TI’s growing attractivity, the impact factor has increased as have the numbers of manuscript submissions.
To our authors: Several articles published in TI in 2025, addressing various topics in the broad field of organ replacement, have been the object of considerable interest. Some papers have already been cited a few times despite the short time elapsed since publication. Congratulations to the authors who have submitted these papers and contributed to the high-quality standards of the journal (Table 1).
TABLE 1
| The last mile in beta-cell replacement therapy for type 1 diabetes: Time to grow up | Piemonti [1] | 8 citations |
| Donors with previous malignancy: When is it safe to proceed with organ transplantation? | Turra et al [2] | 6 citations |
| The evolution of immunosuppressive therapy in pig-to-nonhuman primate organ transplantation | Sanatkar et al. [3] | 6 citations |
| Ethical issues in uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death: A scoping review to reveal areas of broad consensus, and those for future research | Fritz et al. [4] | 6 citations |
| Mono-HOPE versus Dual-HOPE in liver transplantation: A propensity score-matched evaluation of early graft outcome | Koch et al [5] | 6 citations |
| Desensitization with imlifidase for HLA-incompatible deceased donor kidney transplantation: A delphi international expert consensus | Furian et al. [6] | 5 citations |
| Heart transplantation and donation after circulatory death in children. A review of the technological, logistical and ethical framework | Kenny et al. [7] | 5 citations |
| Targeting CD38 in antibody-mediated rejection | Mayer et al. [8] | 4 citations |
| Progress in porcine kidney transplantation to non-human primates | Le bas-bernardet et al. [9] | 4 citations |
| Multi-center outcome analysis of 16 face transplantations – a retrospective OPTN study | Knoedler et al. [10] | 4 citations |
Top 10 2025 most cited TI artices (Dimensions scores).
Measuring impact early after publication is not easy and requires other metrics than numbers of citations. Indeed, a rapid analysis on Web of Science shows that articles published in Transplant International reach their peak citation numbers the third year after publication. This is in concordance with what has been previously reported elsewhere [11, 12]. For this reason, capturing the impact early after publication requires considering other more immediate indices such as numbers of views and downloads. Expectedly, a look at the top 10 viewed or downloaded papers shows that the overlap is only partial and 9 additional articles can be identified among TI papers of highest interest (Table 2).
TABLE 2
| Liver transplantation in the context of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF): Where do we stand in 2025? | L’Hermite et al [13] | 8540 views 1530 downloads |
| Updates on donor-derived infection in solid organ transplantation, report from the 2024 GTI (infection and transplantation group) annual meeting | Eldin et al [14] | 6122 views 872 downloads |
| The progress and challenges of implementing HLA molecular matching in clinical practice | Bezstarosti et al [15] | 6100 views 684 downloads |
| Current techniques of gene editing in pigs for xenotransplantation | Galli [16] | 5718 views 1456 downloads |
| State of art of dose individualization to support tacrolimus drug monitoring: What’s next? | Lloberas et al [17] | 5699 views 1310 downloads |
| Ex-Vivo heart perfusion machines in DCD heart transplantation model: The state of art | Tessari et al [18] | 5639 views 398 downloads |
| Nurse-led self-management support after organ transplantation – a multicenter, stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial | Van zanten et al [19] | 5400 views 1579 downloads |
| Development of non-HLA antibodies and their association with antibody-mediated rejection in pediatric kidney transplant recipients | Schmidt et al [20] | 5369 views 704 downloads |
| Evaluating risk in kidney living donors | Ortiz et al [21] | 4797 views 1284 downloads |
Other TI articles with high views or downloads numbers (measured 8.1.26).
The topics that have generated the most interest are xenotransplantation and machine perfusion. Unsurprisingly, the same topics are found at the top of TI editors’ selection of the most impactful papers published in 2025 in the field of clinical transplantation [22]. These 2 topics have been the focus of 2 special issues that just closed at the end of 2025 and titled “Current developments in artificial organs and engineered ex-situ perfused organs” and “Europeans and Xenotransplantation” [23, 24]. The collections are now complete and will be available as e-books in the coming months.
TI is extremely grateful to the reviewers who have spent their time and expertise to assess the papers submitted to our journal. We thank them for their voluntary participation, which is key to the scientific quality of the journal. The list of the reviewers who have contributed to TI in 2025 appears at the end of this editorial (Appendix Table 3).
The biennial ESOT Congress took place in London in 2025, from June 29 to July 2, and Transplant International participated actively to the congress activities. Sessions designed and organized by the editorial board and editorial fellows discussed some of the abstracts presented during the congress as well as a selection of articles recently published in TI and covering each of the five tracks defined by the scientific program committee. A “meet the editors” workshop, aiming at the younger delegates, discussed in an interactive format several aspects of scientific publication that are not always obvious for young investigators, such as the good use of biostatistics, artificial intelligence or social media. Importantly, a collection of review and original articles based on invited lectures and best communications presented at the congress is getting ready to be completed in the first quarter of 2026 [25]. Most contributions are already published online. Highlights include reviews on immune monitoring by donor-derived cell-free DNA in heart/lung transplantation torque-tenovirus in kidney transplantation [26, 27] and on the evolution of our understanding of vascular lesions in the kidney graft biopsies [28].
The Transplant International editorial fellowship program is an ongoing success! In addition to their mentoring in all aspects of scientific editing and publishing, editorial fellows are also engaged in communication projects for the journal and have been instrumental in creating new products, such as video abstracts of TI papers and launching a TI podcast.
2025 has been a busy and productive year, but more will come the way of TI readership in 2026. From the beginning of our tenure, it has been our stated aim to strengthen the relationship with ESOT leadership and membership. We endeavor to make TI a journal close to ESOT’s style and philosophy and integrate contents resulting from ESOT’s educational and scientific activities, in the strict respect of editorial independence. Transplant International is the journal of ESOT and of the European transplant community of physicians, surgeons, scientists and allied healthcare professionals. We believe that our efforts will help increase the standing of the journal and its identification as the journal of this dynamic community!
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Appendix
APPENDIX TABLE 3
| Anders Åsberga | Mladen knoteka | Elisa Ruiz-Arabia |
| Olivier Auberta | La Salete Martinsa | Navdeep Singha |
| Alberto Benazzoa | Johan Boblea | Dirk Van Raemdoncka |
| Klemens Buddea | Axel Rahmela | Lada Zibara |
| Nicos Kessarisa | Juliano Riellaa | |
| Shadab Abadpour | Alexandra Geusau | René Novysedlák |
| Davide A. Abate | Emmanouil Giorgakis | Zhuldyz Nurmykhametova |
| Fariba Abbassi | Laurent Godinas | Rupert Oberhuber |
| Amr Abdelaal | Amanda Godoi | Jon Scott Odorico |
| Rayid Abdulqawi | Petra Goldsmith | Michael Oellerich |
| Maheen Abidi | Nicolas Golse | Grainne O’Kane |
| Jose M. Aguado | Jeevan Prakash Gopal | Valérie Olivier |
| Victoria Aguilera | Basu Gopal | Mihai Oltean |
| Emin Baris Akin | Julien Gras | Vivian Lumi Onusic |
| Mohammad Aladaileh | Paolo Antonio Grossi | Fernanda Ortiz |
| Varuna Aluvihare | Benoit Huery | Balin Ozsoy |
| Amer Alzahrani | René Hage | Alessandro Palleschi |
| Antonio J. Amor | Franck Halary | Eduard Palou |
| Dany Anglicheau | Jerome Harambat | María Paniagua-García |
| Corinne Antoine | Takashi Harano | Christina Papachristou |
| Giuseppe Aresu | Hermien Hartog | Vassilios Papalois |
| Miha Arnol | Koichiro Haruki | Lars Pape |
| Emre Arpali | Bulang He | Stefano Partelli |
| Florent Artru | Long He | Renato Pascale |
| Isa Ashoor | Ilkka Helanterä | Andrew R Pepper |
| Alaa Atamna | Merel Hellemons | David Pereyra |
| Trinidad Serrano Aullo | Rosa Blanes Hernandez | Richard Perez |
| Lissette Avilés | Taizo Hibi | Griffith Perkins |
| Alfonso Avolio | Jens Hillingsø | Marcelo Perosa |
| Omer Aziz | Toshihito Hirai | Quentin Perrier |
| Andreina Baj | Takahisa Hiramitsu | Bjoern Petersen |
| Chloe Balleste | Hans H Hirsch | Hessel Peters-Sengers |
| David a Baran | Cédric Hirzel | Palmina Petruzzo |
| Andrew S. Barbas | Tomer Hoffman | Paul Phelan |
| Louise Barbier | Benson Hoffman | Maheswaran Pitchaimuthu |
| Yaniss Belaroussi | Are Holm | Manuel Podesta |
| Caterina di Bella | Luise Holzhauser | Robert Pol |
| Fabrizio di Benedetto | Min Hu | Evgenia Preka |
| David Bennett | Volkert Huurman | Francesco Procaccio |
| Marius Berman | Mahmoud Mohamed Elsayed Ibrahim | Gervasio Soler Pujol |
| Inigo Bermejo | Franz Immer | Pankaj Puri |
| Dominique Bertrand | Annika Ingvarsson | Marion Rabant |
| Suzanne Bezstarosti | Georgina Irish | Mindaugas Rackauskas |
| Luigi Biancone | Michael Gerckens | Sarah Raevens |
| Cecilia Bonazzetti | Jasper Iske | Rajesh Rajalingam |
| Caroline Bonner | Fabio Ius | Sree Bhushan Raju |
| Antoine Bouquegneau | Manhal Izzy | Pablo Ramírez |
| Olivier Brugiere | Spenser January | Raja Rashid |
| Marcos Buj | Erik Groot Jebbink | Joanna Raszeja-Wyszomirska |
| Patrizia Burra | Jan Philipp Jonas | Tomas Reischig |
| Roberto Cacciola | Yashutosh Joshi | Jose Otto Reusing Junior |
| Rossana Caldara | Thomas Jouve | Jinsoo Rhu |
| Jasper Callemeyn | Wolfgang Jungraithmayr | James Richards |
| Diego Cantarovich | Ivana Juric | Paul Ritschl |
| Lucio Careddu | Nassim Kamar | Valentin Ritschl |
| Chiara Catelli | Hannah Kaminski | John Roberts |
| Miriam Cortés Cerisuelo | Nada Kanaan | Manuel Rodríguez-Perálvarez |
| Matteo Cescon | Nikolaos Karydis (Karidis) | Gianluca Rompianesi |
| Ernest G Chan | Martin Kauke-Navarro Md | Alberto Rosati |
| Xavier Charmetant | Brendan Keating | Olivier Roux |
| Efstratios Chatzixiros | Hussein Khambalia | Maria Jose Perez Saez |
| Bertrand Chauveau | Yoshitaka Kinoshita | Berta Saez-Gimenez |
| Yee Lee Cheah | Simon Knight | Andrew Sage |
| Xiaomeng Chen | Takaaki Kobayashi | Mustafa Kursat Sahin |
| Mikael Chetboun | Alice Koenig | Faouzi Saliba |
| Oriana Ciacio | Dionysios Koliogiannis | Jadranka Pavičić Šarić |
| Umberto Cillo | Konstantinos Koutroutsos | Marco Schiavon |
| Benjamin Coiffard | Philipp Dominique Kron | Roland Schmitt |
| Nicolina Conti | Aleksandra Kukla | Sameep Sehgal |
| Matthew Cooper | Vinay Kumaran | Rajeevan Selvaratnam |
| David Cooper | Nicholas Küng | Alp Sener |
| Alice Corbel | Chitaru Kurihara | Rakesh Sethapati |
| Emanuele Cozzi | Niclas Kvarnstrom | Sadhana Shankar |
| David Cucchiari | Yong Kyong Kwon | Adnan Sharif |
| Sílvia Gomes da Silva | Marie-Camille Lafargue | Ankit Sharma |
| Sunil Daga | Rita Leal | Lena Sibulesky |
| Raja Dandamudi | Jong Soo Lee | Farjad Siddiqui |
| José Davide | Per Lindner | Alberto Costa Silva |
| Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade | Sandra Lindstedt | Ksenija Vucur Simic |
| Marieke T de Boer | Guangxiang Liu | Rajesh Sivaprakasam |
| Sabina de Geest | Francesco Locatelli | Renaud Snanoudj |
| Margriet de Jong | Andrea Lombardi | Mario Spaggiari |
| Jose Luis Campo-Cañaveral de La Cruz | Ibai Los-Arcos | Peter Stock |
| Annelies de Weerd | Jessica Lum | Robert Stratta |
| Silvia Deaglio | John MacArthur | Yiliam Fundora Suárez |
| Rebecca Deans | Umberto Maggiore | Harikesh Subramanian |
| Arnaud Del Bello | Manuel Maglione | Diana Sukackiene |
| Tommaso di Maira | Christian T. J. Magyar | Kalathil Sureshkumar |
| Gonzalo Díaz-Cobacho | Beatriz Mahillo | Caner Süsal |
| Laura Dichiacchio | Angeles Maillo-Nieto | Andrew Sutherland |
| Fritz Diekmann | Rahul Mainra | Anat R Tambur |
| Frank J.M.F. Dor | Paolo Malvezzi | Yakup Tanriver |
| Didier Dorez | Nizam Mamode | Helen Te |
| Pedro Augusto Reck dos Santos | Wenjun Mao | Marta Tejedor |
| Genady Drozdinsky | Lorenzo Marconi | Inga Strand Thorsen |
| Geoffrey Dube | Christian Margreiter | Claire Tinel |
| Halise Taşkın Duman | Marco Masetti | Samuel Tingle |
| Richard Dumbill | Emma Massey | Francesca Tinti |
| Jerome Dumortier | Marie Matignon | Giusy Tiseo |
| Magdalena Durlik | Xavier Matillon | Pierluigi Toniutto |
| Philipp Dutkowski | Katharina A. Mayer | Burkhard Tönshoff |
| Janina Eden | Micheal Mcinnis | Lada Trajceska |
| Sofia el Hajji | Cely Medeiros | Vasiliki Tsarpali |
| Michelle Elias | Francisco lópez Medrano | Cynthia Tsien |
| Andreas Elmer | Zhongcheng Mei | Andreas Tzakis |
| Mohamed Eltemamy | Raphael Meier | David Rodriguez-Arias Vailhen |
| Juliet Emamaullee | Madhav C Menon | Joris Van De Klundert |
| Eric Epailly | Shaheed Merani | Lorena Van Den Bogaart |
| Olivier Epaulard | Marco Merli | Teun Van Gelder |
| Pauline Erpicum | Benoît Mesnard | Deborah Verran |
| Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov | Alberto Molina-Pérez | Ondrej Viklicky |
| Letizia lo Faro | Michele Molinari | Carmen Vinaixa |
| Mario Fernández-Ruiz | Jose Morales | Julien Vionnet |
| Carla Ferrandiz-Pulido | Alfonso Morcillo | Jonathan Visentin |
| Alberto Ferrarese | Francesc J Moreso | Fabio Vistoli |
| Paolo Ferrari | Midas Berend Mulder | Ashley Vo |
| Joana Ferrer-Fábrega | Elmi Muller | Robin Vos |
| Constanca Figueiredo | William Mulley | Jennifer Wainright |
| Konrad Fischer | Sarwa Darwish Murad | Charles-Henri Wassmer |
| Yohann Foucher | Silvio Nadalin | Bettina Wiegmann |
| Helene Francois | Nalu Navarro-Alvarez | Felicity Williams |
| Ilaria Gandolfini | Bashoo Naziruddin | Colin Wilson |
| Dale Gardiner | Flavia Neri | Tiffany Wong |
| Brad Gardiner | Arne Neyrinck | Germaine Wong |
| Cyril Garrouste | Jan Niesing | Zachary Yetmar |
| Philippe Gatault | Tom Nieto | Kenneth Yong |
| Milo Gatti | Michiel Nijhoff | Bo Yu |
Reviewers for Transplant International – 2025.
Special thanks to our 14 top reviewers.
Summary
Citation
Berney T, Bellini MI, Bestard O, Citro A, Kervella D, Pilat N, Schneeberger S, Seizilles de Mazancourt E, Trizzino A and Zajacova A (2026) Transplant International: Looking Back at 2025, Looking Forward to 2026. Transpl. Int. 39:16267. doi: 10.3389/ti.2026.16267
Received
19 January 2026
Revised
19 January 2026
Accepted
20 January 2026
Published
11 February 2026
Volume
39 - 2026
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