Instructions for Authors

Annals of Transplantation is an international, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in basic, clinical disciplines related to organ, tissue and cell transplantation.
Annals of Transplantation is an Open Access, primary electronic journal, issued on a continuous basis. Print copies of selected articles can be ordered on demand.  

Annals of Transplantation is internationally indexed in Alerting System, Clarivate, Chemical Abstracts CAS, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, H-Index, Index Copernicus, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, NLM, NIH, Journals Citation Report (JCR), Clarivate, PubMed / PubMed Central, NLM, NIH, SCI Expanded, Clarivate, SCOPUS CiteScore, SNIP, SJR, Web of Science / Clinical medicine, Clarivate.

Annals of Transplantation follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals (ICMJE Recommendations 2013), the guidelines on editorial independence produced by the World Association of Medical Editors, the code on good publication practice produced by the Committee on Publication Ethics, and the EQUATOR network resource centre guidance on good research reporting.

Annals of Transplantation editors endorse the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki and expect that all investigations involving humans will have been performed in accordance with these principles. If your manuscript uses human subjects, animals, or any related specimen that require an ethical approval from your institution also known as your Institutional Review Board (IRB), independent ethics committee (IEC), ethical review board (ERB), research ethics board (REB), or Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), please upload it to our system along with your submission files. If the ethical approval is entirely in another language other than English, please have a certified translator translate this ethical approval into English and have them sign. Please upload the original and translated copies.

Patients Consent and Confidentiality.  Authors of clinical papers are obliged to ensure patient privacy rights. Only clinically or scientifically important data are permitted for publication and patient written consent (or their guardian) must be obtained for all human studies. Authors are responsible for obtaining patient consent-to-disclose forms for all recognizable participants in photographs, videos, or other information that may be published in the Annals of Transplantation. The consent-to-disclose form should indicate specific use, such as publication in the medical literature in print and online, with the understanding that participants and the public will have access, of the participant’s information and any images in figures or videos and must contain the participant’s signature or that of a legal guardian. The original form should be retained by the guarantor or corresponding author. The description of race, ethnicity, or culture of a study subject should occur only when it is believed to be of strong influence on the medical condition involved in the study. When categorizing by race, ethnicity, or culture, the terms should be as descriptive as possible and reflect how these groups were assigned. Changing the details of patients to disguise them is a form of data alteration.

Animal Research: Manuscripts that include experimental results in animals must include a statement that the study has been approved by an animal utilization study committee. Information about the management of postoperative pain for animal subjects must be provided. Any animal research articles should follow the American Veterinary Medical Association guidelines on animal welfare and pain management in animals.

Anti-plagiarism verification. At every stage of the submission and review process, your manuscript will be electronically checked for plagiarism by more than one electronic method. Because some online publications may have a delay in their availability and access by electronic identification, we are obliged to do repeated checks up to the time of pre-publication. Plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, that is detected at any stage will result in rejection of the manuscript and all paid processing fees will be forfeited.​
Preprint publication services. This journal is not associated with any preprint publication services and regards previous publication of any manuscript or study, in whole or in part, as resulting in a non-original manuscript submission to this journal.

Conflict of interest. The Journal complies with the position of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) on "Conflict of Interest", defined as financial and other conflicts of interest that might bias their work. Authors of research articles should disclose at the time of submission any financial relationships or other competing interests that could be perceived as biasing the study whether or not this support was related to the subject of the manuscript. Such information will be held in confidence while the paper is under review and will not influence the editorial decision, but if the article is accepted for publication, the editors will usually disclose this information in the Authors section. Journal policy requires that reviewers, associate editors, editors, and senior editors reveal in a letter to the Editor-in-Chief any relationships that they have that could be construed as causing a conflict of interest with regard to a manuscript under review. The letter should include a statement of any financial relationships with commercial companies involved with a product under study.

Permissions. Materials taken from other sources must be accompanied by a written statement from both the author and publisher giving permission to the Journal for reproduction. Obtain permission in writing from at least one author of papers still in press, unpublished data, and personal communications.

Copyrights. Annals of Transplantation has adopted the Open Access publishing model. All articles are published under Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), allowing others to download articles and share them only if they credit the authors and the publisher, but without permission to change them in any way or use them commercially.

Disclaimer. Every effort is made by the Publisher and Editorial Board to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinion, or statement appear in the  Annals of Transplantation. However, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles and advertisements herein are the responsibility of the contributor, sponsor, or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the Publisher and the Editorial Board accept no liability whatsoever for the consequences of any such inaccurate of misleading data, opinion, or statement. Every effort is made to ensure that drug doses and other quantities are presented accurately. Nevertheless, readers are advised that methods and techniques involving drug usage and other treatments described in this Journal should only be followed in conjunction with the drug or treatment manufacturer's own published literature in the reader’s own country.

Editorial Board of Annals of Transplantation takes under consideration for publication original articles in basic biomedical sciences and clinical medicine related to cell, tissue or organ transplantation with the understanding that neither the manuscript nor any part of its essential substance, tables, or figures have been published previously in print form or electronically and are not taken under consideration by any other publication or electronic medium. Copies of any closely related manuscripts should be submitted to the Editor along with the manuscript that is to be considered by the Journal. The authors also are expected not release the details of their findings to the media before their work is published, unless the media outlet or journalist agrees to journal’s embargo date.  The Journal discourages submission of more than one article dealing with related aspects of the same study.

Authorship: Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published. When a large, multicenter group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. (Adapted from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ statement).
Authors should determine the order of authorship among themselves and should settle any disagreements before submitting their manuscript. Changes in authorship (i.e., order, addition, and deletion of authors) should be discussed and approved by all authors. Any requests for such changes in authorship after initial manuscript submission and before publication should be explained in writing to the editor in a letter or email from all authors. (Adapted from AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors. 10th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2007.) For the flagship JACC, the editors do not allow the adding or deleting of authors after the paper is accepted.

Submitted papers should fit in one of the following journal sections: Hypothesis  ::  Laboratory and in vitro studies  ::  Animal research  ::  Drug research  ::  Clinical Research  ::  Epidemiology for population studies  ::  Product Investigations  ::  Reviews and special reports - papers may be accepted on the basis that they provide a systematic, critical and up-to-date overview of literature pertaining to research or clinical topics. Meta-analyses are considered as reviews. A special attention will be paid to a teaching value of a review paper  ::  Letters to the Editor for comments on a recent Annals of Transplantation articles. 

NOTE: Case reports are no longer considered for publication at the Annals of Transplantation. All case reports submissions will be automatically redirected to our specially dedicated journal, the American Journal of Case Reports www.AmJCaseRep.com

Guidelines for submission in Annals of Transplantation are in accordance with Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (N Eng J Med, 1997; 336: 309-15). Text should be spaced one and a half with 12-point typeface. Margins should be 2.5 cm (1 inch) at top, bottom, right, and left. The manuscript should include: Title Page, Summary Page, Text Pages, References, Tables, Figures, Photographs, Units of Measurement, and Abbreviations and Symbols. The manuscript should include:

Manuscripts are evaluated on the basis that they present new insights to the investigated topic and are likely to contribute to research progress or change in clinical practice or thinking about a disease. It is understood that all authors listed in a manuscript have agreed to its submission. The corresponding author, by checking all legal notices during the submission process, signifies that these conditions have been fulfilled. The Journal follows the COPE Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Received manuscripts are first examined by the  Annals of Transplantation editors. Manuscripts that do not meet criteria for publication are promptly rejected. Incomplete submissions or manuscripts not prepared in the advised style will not be sent for peer-review until the correct and complete submission has been provided. The authors are given a reference number upon manuscript registration at the Editorial Office.
Technically approved manuscripts are initially reviewed by our Editors for appropriateness and timeliness. Manuscripts that are not rejected after this initial review are sent to iThenticate service to detect potential plagiarism. Manuscripts with match below 10% are accepted for peer-evaluation process; manuscripts with match 11%-25% are sent back to the authors for text revision and are subject for a second cross-check; manuscripts with match greater than 26% are rejected automatically and are not processed further.
Manuscripts that are not rejected after anti-plagiarism check are sent to two or more external peer review experts in the appropriate field(s). The identities of reviewers are never disclosed to the authors. Peer reviewers are required to maintain confidentiality about the manuscripts they review and must not disclose any information about a specific manuscript or its content to any third party without prior permission from the journal editors.
The Journal does not use reviewers suggested by the authors unless they are Annals of Transplantation registered reviewers or an appropriate reviewer cannot otherwise be identified. If an author-suggested reviewer is invited to review, the suggested reviewer must be reachable by an institutional email address.The Journal requires prospective reviewers to disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission and they are reminded that the manuscript is confidential. The Editor reviews any reviewer's competing interests and recuses that person from reviewing.

Authors should return a corrected paper within 1–6 weeks, depending on the reviewers’ recommendations. The evaluation process usually takes 1–2 months and depends on the manuscript quality and availability of reviewers. Corrected manuscripts along with reviewers remarks are evaluated by Science Editors for a final recommendation.

The evaluation process usually takes 1–2 months and depends on the manuscript quality and availability of reviewers.

Annals of Transplantation uses the Open Access publishing model in which all published articles are freely available to readers directly from the Journal's website, as well as from PubMed and PubMed Central. This publishing model, however, is based on author fees. The submission of a manuscript and peer-review process are free of charge. The processing fee applies only to manuscripts accepted for publication. Online credit card payment is our preferred method of payment. We also accept bank checks and wire transfers. The payment instructions will be provided after a manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Editorial Processing @ 2700,- USD Estimated processing time: weeks depending on the length of the peer-review process, time required for manuscript correction by authors, speed of response to galley-proof acceptance, your institution's payment procedures, and the number of manuscripts awaiting publication.

Editors of the Annals of Transplantation accept only electronic submissions via the Authors’ Service available on the Journal's website. Please register first if this is your first submission to the Journal, which will enable efficient communication with the editors, monitoring of manuscript status, re-submissions of corrected files, and payment. Please follow the instructions in the journal's website.