OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
HLA-DQ antibodies in alloimmunity, what makes them different?	55
Psychosocial considerations in the combined bariatric surgery and organ transplantation population: a review of the overlapping pathologies and outcomes	28
Molecular matching tools for allocation and immunosuppression optimization. Ready for primetime?	25
The importance of equity in transplant oncology	22
Access to liver transplantation for minority populations in the United States	20
Advancing organ transplantation through HIV-to-HIV transplantation	20
Immunosuppression after uterus transplantation	19
Defining chronic rejection in vascularized composite allografts – do we have reliable surrogates to look for?	19
Editorial: Disparities in transplantation access and outcomes: mind the gap!	19
Expanding MELD exceptions for colorectal liver metastasis: data and policy	17
Normothermic machine perfusion for liver transplantation: current state and future directions	16
Hemodynamic monitoring in liver transplantation ‘the hemodynamic system’	16
Stroke and kidney transplantation	16
HIV in kidney transplantation	14
Immune checkpoint inhibitors in kidney transplantation	13
Editorial: Organ Preservation Revolution: the future is revisiting the past through a different lens	13
Pancreas transplantation	12
Enhanced recovery after surgery for liver transplantation: a review of recent literature	12
Balancing the tug of war: intraoperative and postoperative management of multiorgan transplantation	11
The pulmonary microbiome: recent advances in understanding its role in chronic lung allograft dysfunction	11
New drugs for difficult bugs: management of multidrug-resistant gram-negative infections in solid organ transplant recipients	11
Current review on the role of ileostomy following intestinal transplantation	10
Closing the abdomen: update on the current surgical toolkit	9
Uterus transplantation – donor and recipient work-up	9
Editorial introduction	9

Better liver transplant outcomes by donor interventions?	9
Physical exercise, the immune system and infection risk: implications for prehabilitation and rehabilitation for solid organ transplantation candidates and recipients	9
Ethical issues in organ procurement: donation after normothermic regional perfusion in liver transplantation	8
Epigenetic modifications and the development of kidney graft fibrosis: Erratum	8
Substance use disorders in organ transplantation: perennial challenges and interprofessional opportunities	8
Editorial introduction	8
Delayed graft function: current status and future directions	8
Editorial: Uterus transplantation: the only curative treatment for absolute uterine factor infertility is moving forward	8
Multidrug-resistant organisms in lung transplant: a narrative review	7
Exercise training in solid organ transplant candidates and recipients	7
Ischemia-free organ transplantation − a review	7
Age disparities in transplantation	7
Recent advances in cytomegalovirus infection management in solid organ transplant recipients	6
Management of long-term cardiovascular risk factors post organ transplant	6
Desensitization and management of allograft rejection	6
Normothermic regional perfusion procurement for abdominal organ donors: techniques and troubleshooting	6
Editorial: Intestinal transplantation: moving towards a steady improvement	6
The perspective for next-generation lung replacement therapies: functional whole lung generation by blastocyst complementation	6
Gender disparities in transplantation	6
Noninvasive biomarkers in heart transplant: 2020–2021 year in review	6
The history of ethical principles in liver transplant organ allocation in the united states: how historical and proposed allocations system fare in balancing utility vs. urgency and justice vs. pragma	6
Editorial introductions	6
Editorial introductions	6
Implementing regulations and policies for uterus transplantation	6
Novel therapies for treatment of antibody-mediated rejection of the kidney	6
Future directions for xenotransplantation in lungs	6
Disparities in heart transplantation	6
Innovative surgical techniques in the intestine and multivisceral transplant	6
Editorial introductions	6
Mitochondria and ischemia reperfusion injury	6
Cystic fibrosis: candidate selection and impact of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator therapy	5
Medical intestinal rehabilitation	5
New insights into ischemia-reperfusion injury signaling pathways in organ transplantation	5
Using organ perfusion to optimize donor livers	5
How to measure human leukocyte antigen-specific B cells	5
Uterus transplantation: ethical considerations	5
The time is now: antimicrobial stewardship in solid organ transplantation	5
Clinical and biomarker assessment of frailty in liver transplantation	5
Overview of pregnancy in solid-organ transplantation	5
Pain management for liver transplant recipients	5
Controlling infections in hospitalized pretransplant candidates	5
Approaches and strategies to manage the hepatitis C virus-positive heart donor	5
Secondary oxalate nephropathy and kidney transplantation	5
Misplaced emphasis, misunderstood risk: a cultural history of Public Health Service infectious disease guidelines	5
Autologous gastrointestinal reconstruction surgery for short bowel syndrome: the cornerstone for intestinal rehabilitation	5
Are split liver grafts a suitable option in high-risk liver transplant recipients?	5
Liver transplantation for tumor entities	5
Ethical issues in solid organ transplantation: transfusion-free transplantation in Jehovah's witness patients	5
Deceased donors with multidrug-resistant organisms: implications and future directions	5
Liver transplantation for colorectal secondaries: on the way to validation	5

Optimizing the pediatric transplant candidate	5
Kidney transplant program specific reporting and transplant metrics	5
Update on surgical management of enteroatmospheric fistulae in intestinal failure patients	5
‘As a surgeon, I am obliged to every single patient’: evaluation of focus group discussions with transplantation physicians on the allocation of donor organs	5