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Welcome to the World Journal of Transplantation

World Journal of Transplantation (WJT, World J Transplant) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing clinical, basic, and translational research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical in the fields of transplantation. The types of articles published in WJT include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJT is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>


2026 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Sami Akbulut, PhD, MD, Professor, (E-mail: akbulutsami@gmail.com) Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant Institute, Inonu University, Malatya 44280, Türkiye
  • Vassilios Papalois, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: vassilios.papalois@nhs.net) Directorate of Renal and Transplant Services, 4th Floor Hammersmith House, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 OHS, United Kingdom
  • Maurizio Salvadori, MD, Professor, (E-mail: maurizio.salvadori1@gmail.com) Department of Transplantation Renal Unit, Careggi University Hospital, Florence 50139, Italy
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJT is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics
The WJT’s CiteScore for 2024 is 3.3 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Transplantation is 24/55.
ISSN
2220-3230 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (1068), Peer Review Time (32 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (49 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (36 days/Mean), Accepted (58.9%/Mean), Production Time (59 days/Mean), Time to Publication (181 days/Mean), and Rejected (30.0%/Mean).
Editorial
Niki I Antonopoulou, Maria S Spyropoulou, Stavros P Papadakos, Garyfalia N Papavasileiou, Andreas C Dimakis 
World J Transplant 16(1):109740. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.109740
Opinion Review
Rowan Abuyadek, Sara A Ghitani, Ramy Shaaban, Muhammad AbdelAziz Quoritem, Mohammed S Foula, Rodaina Osama Abdel Majid, Manar Mokhtar, Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi, Amr Alnagar 
World J Transplant 16(1):111103. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.111103
Expert Consensus
Vivek B Kute, Manish Ramesh Balwani, Jigar B Shrimali, Amit Pasari, Vijay Kher, Mohan Punabhai Patel, Deodatta Chafekar, Swarnalata Guditi, Pratik Das, Gireesh Mathihally Siddaiah, Suraj Mohan Godara, Vinant Bhargava, Anurag Gupta, Vishal Ramteke, Nishant Deshpande, Priyanka Tolani, Narayan Prasad, Radhika Krishna Patil, Ravi Mohanka, Sandeep Mahajan, Sourabh Sharma, Subho Banerjee, Divyesh P Engineer, Dhananjai Agarwal, Pranjal Kashiv, Arpita Lahiri, Dinesh Khullar, Aneesh Srivastava 
World J Transplant 16(1):114367. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.114367
Review
Minireviews
Angeliki Emmanouilidou, Eleni Avramidou, Filippos F Karageorgos, Nikolaos-Andreas Anastasopoulos, Vassilios Papalois, Georgios Tsoulfas 
World J Transplant 16(1):108837. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.108837
Eleni Avramidou, Nikolaos Kougianos, George Chiotis-Miehe, Stella Vasileiadou, Georgios Katsanos, Georgios Tsoulfas 
World J Transplant 16(1):110485. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.110485
Kawther F Alquadan, Amer A Belal, Rohan Mehta, Muhannad Leghrouz, Hisham Ibrahim, Georgios Vrakas, Alfonso H Santos 
World J Transplant 16(1):111064. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.111064
Naga Anvesh Kodali, Ramu Janarthanan, Zeynep Demir, Bedreddin Sazoglu, Omer Faruk Dirican, Dmitry Tuder, Fatih Zor, Yalcin Kulahci, Vijay S Gorantla 
World J Transplant 16(1):113633. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.113633
Amer Ashaab Belal, Rafael Aldaya Bourricaudy, Zahra Saba, Kawther F Alquadan, Amir Kazory, Alfonso H Santos Jr 
World J Transplant 16(1):114233. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.114233
Retrospective Cohort Study
Nihal Mohammed Sadagah, Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Hinda Hassan Khideer Mahmood, Ibtisam Ali Alghamdi, Ghada Abdulrahman Buridi, Salem H Al-Qurashi 
World J Transplant 16(1):110628. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.110628
Chrysanthos D Christou, Savvas Antoniadis, Avishek Majumder, Rhana Zakri, Jonathon Olsburgh, Chris Callaghan, Georgios Papadakis, Kiran Sran, Martin Drage, Karel Decaestecker, Ben Challacombe, Nicos Kessaris, Ioannis Loukopoulos 
World J Transplant 16(1):113075. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.113075
Retrospective Study
Oumaima Guissouss, Khalid Achiaou, Joumana El Turk, Asmaa Mourachid, Abdelhadi Cheggali, Ghislaine Medkouri, Benyounes Ramdani, Mohammed Benghanem Gharbi, Majda Taoudi Benchekroun, Siham Bennani 
World J Transplant 16(1):114044. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.114044
Systematic Reviews
Case Report
Manish Ramesh Balwani, Amit Pasari, Pranjal Kashiv, Chaitanya Shembekar, Manisha Shembekar, Shubham Dubey, Vijay Jeyachandran, Sunny Malde, Sushrut Gupta, Twinkle Pawar, Priyanka Tolani, Mohit Kurundwadkar, Prasad Gurjar, Kapil Sejpal, Charulata Bawankule, Vivek B Kute 
World J Transplant 16(1):113117. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.113117
Brahim Lekehal, Noura Ait Youssef, Mehdi Lekehal, Asma Jdar, Amine El Azami El Hassani, Ismail Belyazid, Tarik Bakkali, Ayoub Bounssir 
World J Transplant 16(1):114162. Published online Mar 18, 2026. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v16.i1.114162
Letter to the Editor