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Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2025)

In 2025, many AOT authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

Annals of Thyroid 2023 CiteScore Released: 0.9

We are pleased to announce that the Annals of Thyroid (AOT) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 0.9, ranking 201 out of 244 journals in the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

Reviewer of the Month (2024)

In 2024, AOT reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

Prof. Hui Sun: Intraoperative neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery is still on its way

Professor Hui Sun, who is currently the Director of the Department of Thyroid Surgery, China-Japan Friendship Hospital of Jilin University and the Director of the Department of Surgery at Jilin University Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital, gave two keynote lectures entitled "Value of Dynamic Monitoring of Calcitonin and Carcinoembryonic Antigen in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Medullary Thyroid Cancer" and "Application and Scientific Innovation of Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring during Thyroid Surgery" respectively. She was interviewed by the editorial office of Annals of Thyroid, AME Publishing Company after the meeting.

AOT Annual Report 2021

Greetings from Dr. Wen Tian and the Editorial Office of Annals of Thyroid (AOT)!

In 2021, by the joint efforts, AOT has been indexed by Scopus in June. According to the data collected from Google Analytics, AOT had a steadily increased number of visitors in 2021 (all together 47,773 pageviews). For detailed information, please find the Annual Report below.

Annals of Thyroid (AOT) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Annals of Thyroid (AOT) is among the list of COPE membership.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

Application of the CARE Guideline as reporting standard in the Annals of Thyroid

The Annals of Thyroid welcomes case reports which are supposed to report new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in the fields of medicine.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Annals of Thyroid (AOT)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to AOT from March 19, 2020.

Editor-in-Chief: Wen Tian

Dr. Wen Tian is a Chief Physician & Professor and tutor of master candidates at the Department of General Surgery, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital. As an academic leader in thyroid surgery and hernia and abdominal wall surgery in China, he currently serves as the chairman of the Chinese Research Hospital Association Thyroid Disease Committee, chairman of the Chinese Thyroid Association, and board member of the Asian Association of Endocrine Surgeons. He is the member of the editorial boards of 8 core Chinese journals including Chinese Journal of Surgery, Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery, Chinese Journal of Practical Journal, Chinese Journal of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery, and Chinese Journal of Hernia and Abdominal Wall Surgery.

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Letter to the Editor

Author’s ambitions sometimes distort the truth, or once again about the disappearance of pseudonodules in subacute thyroiditis

Andrey Valerievich Ushakov

Annals of Thyroid

2025;

10:

(30 March 2025)

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Letter to the Editor

Reply to Letter from Dr. Ushakov on “Thyroid nodules that disappear—a case report on pseudonodules in thyroiditis”

Hao Li, Hauwei Khoo, Huiling Liew, Cheng Yit Zachary Kok

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 December 2024)

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Original Article

Obesity and thyroid cancer in Europe—is there a gender disparity developing?

Luke Borg, Louisa Testa, Christian Camenzuli

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 December 2024)

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Original Article

Relation of external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve and superior thyroid artery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Htar Htar Aung, Ismail Abdul Sattar Burud, Amardev Singh Thanu, Aqil M. Daher, Farida Hussan

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 October 2024)

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Case Report

Ultrasound signs of large segmental thyroid regeneration in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis: a case report of two cases

Andrey Valerievich Ushakov

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 September 2024)

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Letter to the Editor

Thyroid nodules, pseudonodules and large segments: from empirics to reality

Andrey Valerievich Ushakov

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 August 2024)

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Case Report

Thyroid nodules that disappear—a case report on pseudonodules in thyroiditis

Cheng Yit Zachary Kok, Huiling Liew, Hau Wei Khoo, Hao Li

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Case Report

Spontaneous thyroid hemorrhage management: a case report

David D. Dolidze, Zurab A. Bagatelia, Karina A. Mulaeva, Andrei A. Kolotilshchikov, Nodar N. Gogitidze, Anna Bumbu, Serghei Covantsev

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(30 April 2024)

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Original Article

Effect of ordering thyroid-stimulating hormone levels on subsequent clinical management of internal medicine in-patients admitted with delirium

Brian Lauzon, Ejaz Causer, Elizabeth Richardson, Andrew Cheung

Annals of Thyroid

2024;

(20 March 2024)

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Original Article

Five-year review of incidental thyroid nodule management in the ENT outpatient department

David McCrory, Chris Li, Barry Devlin

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(05 December 2023)

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Editorial Commentary

Genetic molecular testing of thyroid nodules

Dan Yaniv, Hernán E. González, Michael C. Singer, Mark E. Zafereo

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(10 July 2023)

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Case Report

Benign lateral aberrant thyroid—first case report in Hong Kong

Jackson Kam Shing Kwok, Shirley Cheuk Ling Wong, Kong Wah Yeung

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(30 June 2023)

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Review Article

A narrative review of scars after surgery: what to expect

Kathryn Landers, Michelle Hwang, Elizabeth Cottrill

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(30 June 2023)

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Review Article

Post-thyroidectomy hypothyroidism and thyroid hormone supplementation: a narrative review of the history, treatment, and patient experience

Jennifer A. Brooks, Joel B. Fontanarosa, Benjamin Gigliotti

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(30 June 2023)

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Review Article

Improving surgeon-patient communication in thyroid cancer diagnosis and treatment discussions: a narrative review

Lauren Schlegel, Roberta S. Perry, Elizabeth Cottrill

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(30 May 2023)

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Editorial

Preface to the series on “Improved Quality of Life after Thyroid Surgery”

Vaninder K. Dhillon, Elizabeth Cottrill

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(31 March 2023)

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Review Article

A review of parathyroid autofluorescence imaging in detection and preservation of parathyroid glands during thyroid surgery

Gustavo Romero-Velez, Mohammed Elshamy, Eren Berber

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(31 March 2023)

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Review Article

Laser ablation for thyroid nodules has come to age—a review

Enrico Papini, Giancarlo Bizzarri, Roberto Novizio, Rinaldo Guglielmi

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(31 March 2023)

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Review Article

A narrative review of decision aids for low-risk thyroid cancer

Welmoed K. van Deen, Brennan M. R. Spiegel, Allen S. Ho

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(28 February 2023)

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Review Article

Early assessment of laryngeal dysfunction after thyroid surgery: a narrative review on detection and treatment considerations and the role of speech language pathology

Kristine Pietsch, Vaninder K. Dhillon

Annals of Thyroid

2023;

(31 January 2023)

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Review Article

Post-thyroidectomy hypothyroidism and thyroid hormone supplementation: a narrative review of the history, treatment, and patient experience

Jennifer A. Brooks, Joel B. Fontanarosa, Benjamin Gigliotti

Published online: 30 June 2023

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Review Article

Thyroid function in pregnancy

Ilaria Muller, Peter N. Taylor, John H. Lazarus

Published online: 02 November 2018

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Case Report

Thyroid isthmusectomy for a benign nodule of the thyroid isthmus, a case report

Yagan Pillay, Rufaro Asefa

Published online: 30 March 2021

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Review Article

Thyroid function in individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus: the concern and debate about regular screening

Maryam Ibrahim, Anjola Adeniran, Mariam A. Ibrahim, Clare Woodward, Dushyant Mital, Mohamed H. Ahmed

Published online: 30 July 2019

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Review Article

Pre- and post-operative patient care for transoral thyroidectomy

Giuseppe Navarra, Vincenzo Bartolo, Antonio Giacomo Rizzo, Massimo Marullo, Antonino Cancellieri, Antonina Catalfamo, Francesca Pia Pergolizzi, Giuseppinella Melita, Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Published online: 01 February 2018

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Indications and contraindications to transoral thyroidectomy

Christopher R. Razavi, Jonathon O. Russell

Published online: 31 October 2017

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Thyroid oncology in pregnancy

Beata Wojtczak, Krzysztof Kaliszewski, Michał Binko, Monika Sępek, Rafał Mulek, Jerzy Rudnicki, Marek Bolanowski, Marcin Barczyński

Published online: 30 September 2020

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Postpartum thyroid disorders

Fereidoun Azizi

Published online: 22 May 2018

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Management of undetectable and lost parathyroid adenoma

Antonina Catalfamo, Fausto Famà, Francesca Pia Pergolizzi, Vincenzo Bartolo, Antonio Giacomo Rizzo, Massimo Marullo, Valerio Fabiano, Antonino Cancellieri, Giuseppinella Melita, Mattia Portinari, Gianluca Donatini, Ozer Makay, Paolo Carcoforo, Gianlorenzo Dionigi

Published online: 23 January 2018

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Current surgical management of follicular thyroid carcinoma

Julia I. Staubitz, Thomas J. Musholt

Published online: 30 December 2020

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Autoimmune thyroid diseases and pregnancy

Mariacarla Moleti, Giacomo Sturniolo, Maria Di Mauro, Marco Russo, Francesco Vermiglio

Published online: 30 July 2018

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Review Article

Surgical anatomy for transoral endoscopic thyroid surgery through vestibular approach (TOETVA)

Maolin Zhang, Qiuping Xie, Yong Wang, Ping Wang

Published online: 30 November 2017

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Iodine nutrition in pregnancy

Hossein Delshad

Published online: 11 September 2018

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Hypothyroidism in pregnancy

Fahimeh Ramezani Tehrani, Samira Behboudi-Gandevani

Published online: 08 October 2018

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The evolution and progress of anesthesia for intraoperative neuromonitoring during thyroid surgery

Luca Guzzetti, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Salvatore Cuffari, Alessandro Bacuzzi

Published online: 18 December 2018

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Case Report

Thyrotoxicosis following fine needle aspiration biopsy of a mixed thyroid mass: a case report and relevant review

Emeka Onyekwelu, Thomas Poyner

Published online: 30 March 2021

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A look at Graves’ hyperthyroidism in pregnancy

Caroline T. Nguyen, Jorge H. Mestman

Published online: 05 November 2018

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Case Report

Spontaneous thyroid hemorrhage management: a case report

David D. Dolidze, Zurab A. Bagatelia, Karina A. Mulaeva, Andrei A. Kolotilshchikov, Nodar N. Gogitidze, Anna Bumbu, Serghei Covantsev

Published online: 25 April 2024

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Original Article

Pre-operative optimization with super saturated potassium iodide solution (SSKI) in patients with graves’ disease undergoing total thyroidectomy

David Reznick, Eren Berber, Judy Jin, Joyce Shin, Allan Siperstein

Published online: 21 May 2019

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The evolution and progress of mechanism and prevention of recurrent laryngeal nerve injury

Aleksander Konturek, Marcin Barczyński

Published online: 03 December 2018

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Central neck dissection via the transoral approach

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Indications and contraindications to transoral thyroidectomy

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Journal Highlight more

The Annals of Thyroid (AOT) is an open-access, international peer-reviewed electronic journal, covering all aspects of thyroid, e.g. thyrotoxicosis, thyroid hormone resistance and hypothyroidism, thyroid status testing, autoimmune thyroid illness, dysthyroid orbitopathy (Graves’ Ophthalmopathy), bodular thyroid disease, thyroid surgery, thyroid imaging, pediatric and neonatal thyroid disorder, genetics of thyroid disease, thyroid diseases and pregnancy, iodine deficiency, goiter-hypothyroidism-neurological dysfunction, cell biology of the thyrocyte, nuclear and extranuclear actions of thyroid hormones, brain-pituitary-thyroid regulation, and animal models of thyroid disease.