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Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2025)

In 2025, many TAU 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.

Join us at the 8th International Joint Meeting of the Pan-Asian Men's Health Forum & the 42nd Annual Meeting of KSSMA

The 8th International Joint Meeting of the Pan-Asian Men's Health Forum (PAMHF) is going to be held in March 28-29, 2025, in Seoul, Republic of Korea: http://kssma2025.gaonpco.com.

This conference will provide an excellent opportunity for professionals from PAMHF and KSSMA to come together, share knowledge, and network.

This time, Translational Andrology and Urology (TAU), as well as its sister journals and books published by AME Publishing Company, will be on display during this exciting academic event! We would like to seize this great opportunity to meet our authors, editorial board members, and readers.

Reviewer of the Month (2025)

In 2025, TAU 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.

TAU Annual Report 2024

We are glad to present the 2024 Annual Report of TAU here. In 2024, TAU published 295 articles. TAU continues to publish cutting-edge research covering the whole spectrum of andrology and urology.

Interviews with Editorial Board Members

TAU features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

Interviews with Guest Editors

Over the years, a number of TAU guest editors have made valuable contributions to the journal. This column features interviews with our guest editors, who graciously share their experience in scientific careers and provide insightful perspectives on the special series.

New Impact Factor for Translational Andrology and Urology: 1.9

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Andrology and Urology (TAU) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2023 citation year: 1.9.

Here, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our Editorial Team Members, Guest Editors, authors, and reviewers for their valuable contributions.

Translational Andrology and Urology 2023 CiteScore Released: 4.1

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Andrology and Urology (TAU) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 4.1, ranking 40 out of 120 journals in the Urology category.

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

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Editorial Commentary

Breaking barriers in stress urinary incontinence care: TAS-303 as a game-changer in pharmacological innovation

Matthias May, Martina Schleder, Anton Kravchuk, Ingmar Wolff, Stephan Siepmann, Kay-Patrick Braun, Christian Gilfrich

PDF Pages: 196-201 Full Text (311) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Evaluating local anesthetic strategies in ambulatory urologic surgery: insights from the Baby ORIOLES randomized clinical trial

Shayan Smani, Nishan Sohoni, Aleksandra Golos, Peter Palencia, Olamide Olawoyin, Soum D. Lokeshwar

PDF Pages: 202-204 Full Text (321) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Reassessment of approaches to prostate biopsy in the era of magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy: insights from the ProBE-PC study

Yoichiro Tohi, Takuma Kato, Mikio Sugimoto

PDF Pages: 205-209 Full Text (246) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Prophylactic Use of Biologic Mesh in Ileal Conduit (PUBMIC trial)

Nikolaos Pyrgidis, Gerald B. Schulz, Christian G. Stief, Philipp Weinhold, Julian Marcon

PDF Pages: 210-213 Full Text (235) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Radiation-free ureteroscopy: risky business or a safe alternative?

Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Arman Tsaturyan, Esteban Emiliani, Lazaros Tzelves, Christian Beisland, Øyvind Ulvik

PDF Pages: 214-216 Full Text (226) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Music as an adjunct to analgesics for improved anxiety and pain during prostate biopsy

Sung Chul Kam, Yu Seob Shin, Ho Seok Chung

PDF Pages: 217-219 Full Text (240) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Original Article

Correlation of renal function with intra-patient variability of tacrolimus concentration among recipients of renal transplants: a 10-year study

Yan Qin, Yao Li, Tienan Feng, Hui Pan, Jiayong Li, Fang Zhang, Yong Liu, Jianxin Qiu, Bo Sun

PDF Pages: 220-227 Full Text (318) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of low metastatic burden prostate cancer with non-regional lymph node metastases: role of cytoreductive radiotherapy?

Lixin Mai, Ruiqi Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Qiwen Pan, Lingling Cai, Wufei Cao, Yonghong Li, Fangjian Zhou, Jianming Gao, Yang Liu, Liru He

PDF Pages: 228-239 Full Text (275) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The power of the map: testicular mapping to guide surgical sperm retrieval in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia

Arash Amighi, Alvaro Santamaria, Theodore Crisostomo-Wynne, Marah C. Hehemann, Sarah Holt, Charles H. Muller, Tristan M. Nicholson, Thomas J. Walsh

PDF Pages: 240-249 Full Text (246) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Testosterone therapy in patients with locoregional prostate cancer treated with prior androgen deprivation therapy and radiation: a retrospective single center review

Mostafa Aglan, Yixin Kong, Brendan Connell

PDF Pages: 250-257 Full Text (288) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Causal associations of inflammatory cytokines and urinary stones: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

Huan Yao, Dan Yu, Qingyun He, Xiaoya Ning

PDF Pages: 258-265 Full Text (305) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Application of decellularized tilapia skin in rabbit urethral reconstruction: an experimental study

Wei Huang, Hongying Zheng, Jiaming Wu, Lingfei Wang, Huaqiong Li, Feng Wen, Congde Chen

PDF Pages: 266-279 Full Text (254) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Survival analysis comparing bladder preservation techniques in octogenarians with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Arjun Pon Avudaiappan, Pushan Prabhakar, Benjamin Fleischmann, Muni Rubens, Rohan Garje, Manuel Ozambela Jr, Christopher Gomez, Murugesan Manoharan

PDF Pages: 280-288 Full Text (279) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Descriptive report of complex cystic renal mass fluid cytology: a cross-sectional analysis

Francis A. Jefferson, Tal D. Cohen, Gang Zheng, Sounak Gupta, Matthew S. Lee, Halle E. Foss, Amber Schneider, Valerie Straubmuller, Abhinav Khanna, George K. Chow, Theodora A. Potretzke, Aaron M. Potretzke

PDF Pages: 289-295 Full Text (255) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Association between the American Heart Association’s new “Life’s Essential 8” metrics and urinary incontinence: a cross-sectional study of NHANES data from 2011 to 2018

Yisheng Ji, Peng Ji, Runmin Ding, Pei Lu, Zijie Wang, Pengfei Shao, Min Gu

PDF Pages: 296-306 Full Text (361) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

In silico research of coagulation- and fibrinolysis-related genes for predicting prognosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Ming-Hao Deng, Xue-Wen Yang, Yu-Ming Zhou, Lv-Zhong Xie, Tao Zou, Ji-Gen Ping

PDF Pages: 307-324 Full Text (345) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Insomnia and prostate cancer risk: insights from NHANES and gene correlation analysis

Shukun Liu, Kai Yu, Changtao Ye, Jinrui Li, Fan Bu, Ji Lu

PDF Pages: 325-334 Full Text (363) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Seminal plasma PGK2 serves as a predictive biomarker for post-varicocelectomy sperm motility improvement in varicocele subjects

Cheng Yang, Jianxiong Li, Shenghao Wu, Cundong Liu, Ranran Zhou, Shan-Chao Zhao

PDF Pages: 335-350 Full Text (283) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The fate of the urethra after artificial urinary sphincter cuff erosion: a review of 98 patients

Jeffrey C. Loh-Doyle, Jeffery S. Lin, David A. Ginsberg, Emily Markarian, Ryan Davis, Leo R. Doumanian, Stuart D. Boyd

PDF Pages: 351-359 Full Text (257) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Exploration of a prognostic signature for mitochondria-related genes and the therapeutic prospects of vorinostat in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Wenhui Li, Huan Pan, Bangwei Zhou, Yifang Cao, Bin Shen, Nan Li, Yao Zhang, Yi He, Jing Jin, Lili Shi, Jinlai Gao

PDF Pages: 360-378 Full Text (335) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Associations of triglyceride glucose-related parameters with kidney stones: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2007–2020

Hao Yu, Jian Wu

PDF Pages: 379-388 Full Text (334) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Ejaculatory abstinence and its impacts on within- and between-individual variations in semen parameters of 9,595 Vietnamese men

Bac Hoai Nguyen, Hoa Quoc Tran, Quan Minh Pham, Kien Van Tran

PDF Pages: 389-401 Full Text (316) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Super-high levels of serum intact-parathyroid hormone and bone turnover markers descended with recuperating allograft function and a short-term high-dose methylprednisolone during preoperative period of renal transplantation: a retrospective cohort study

Wenqing Xie, Junhao Lv, Chuncun Wei, Zhechi He, Suya Wang

PDF Pages: 402-411 Full Text (290) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Identification of a C2H2 zinc finger-related lncRNA prognostic signature and its association with the immune microenvironment in clear cell renal cell carcinoma

Ting Tian, Cheng Shen, Łukasz Zapała, Xingxing Fang, Bing Zheng

PDF Pages: 412-431 Full Text (316) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Neourethra reconstruction using an anterior bladder wall flap for the treatment of complex urethral obliteration and absence

Wei-Dong Zhu, Hui Guo, Hong Xie, Lu-Jie Song, Yue-Min Xu

PDF Pages: 432-440 Full Text (242) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Status study of clinical application of ureteral access sheath in urology: a narrative review

Changxiang Shu, Jun Liu

PDF Pages: 441-453 Full Text (235) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

DNA methylation alterations in prostate cancer: from diagnosis to treatment

Francesco Barletta, Marco Bandini, Giuseppe Ottone Cirulli, Paolo Zaurito, Roberta Lucianò, Francesca Giannese, Giulia Maria Scotti, Caterina Oneto, Nazario Tenace, Federico Scarfò, Marco J. Morelli, Dejan Lazarevic, Francesco De Cobelli, Maurilio Ponzoni, Claudio Doglioni, Giovanni Tonon, Giorgio Gandaglia, Francesco Montorsi, Alberto Briganti

PDF Pages: 454-462 Full Text (275) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Case Report

Genital masculinizing reconstruction for untreated intersex individuals in adulthood: a case report

Clement Parat, Aurelie Schirmann, Nicolas Morel-Journel, Laetitia Martinerie, Thomas Blanc, Etienne Suply, Paul Neuville, François-Xavier Madec

PDF Pages: 463-470 Full Text (266) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Robotic appendiceal onlay flap ureteroplasty combined with Boari flap-psoas hitch ureteroneocystostomy for repair of the 20 cm ureteral avulsion: initial experience and case report

Xingyuan Xiao, Ruoyu Li, Chaoqi Liang, Manshun Dong, Yuancheng Zhou, Bing Li

PDF Pages: 471-480 Full Text (162) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Original Article

Overall satisfaction, sexual function, and the durability of neophallus dimensions following staged female to male genital gender confirming surgery: the Institute of Urology, London U.K. experience

Maurice M. Garcia, Nim A. Christopher, Francesco De Luca, Marco Spilotros, David J. Ralph

Published online: 01 June 2014

PDF Pages: 156-162 Full Text (274247) Open Access

Review Article

Strategies for maintaining penile size following penile implant

King Chien Joe Lee, Gerald B. Brock

Published online: 28 March 2013

PDF Pages: 67-73 Full Text (174091) Open Access

Review Article

MRI in early prostate cancer detection: how to manage indeterminate or equivocal PI-RADS 3 lesions?

Ivo G. Schoots

Published online: 23 January 2018

PDF Pages: 70-82 Full Text (148978) Open Access

Review Article

Exogenous testosterone: a preventable cause of male infertility

Lindsey E. Crosnoe, Ethan Grober, Dana Ohl, Edward D. Kim

Published online: 16 July 2013

PDF Pages: 106-113 Full Text (115311) Open Access

Review Articles

The impact and management of sexual dysfunction secondary to pharmacological therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia

Jason Gandhi, Steven J. Weissbart, Noel L. Smith, Steven A. Kaplan, Gautam Dagur, Anna Zumbo, Gargi Joshi, Sardar Ali Khan

Published online: 29 April 2017

PDF Pages: 295-304 Full Text (113796) Open Access

Review Article

The drug treatment of delayed ejaculation

Ibrahim A. Abdel-Hamid, Moustafa A. Elsaied, Taymour Mostafa

Published online: 01 August 2016

PDF Pages: 576-591 Full Text (112760) Open Access

Review Article

Oral therapy for Peyronie’s disease, does it work?

Brittani Barrett-Harlow, Run Wang

Published online: 01 June 2016

PDF Pages: 296-302 Full Text (104840) Open Access

Review Article

Traditional Chinese medical therapy for erectile dysfunction

Hao Li, Hongyang Jiang, Jihong Liu

Published online: 29 April 2017

PDF Pages: 192-198 Full Text (100516) Open Access

Review Article

Testosterone replacement therapy: role of pituitary and thyroid in diagnosis and treatment

Megan Crawford, Laurence Kennedy

Published online: 18 December 2016

PDF Pages: 850-858 Full Text (91967) Open Access

Original Article

Stretched penile length and its associations with testosterone and infertility

Austen D. Slade, Andrew R. Christiansen, Sorena Keihani, William O. Brant, James M. Hotaling

Published online: 14 January 2021

PDF Pages: 49-55 Full Text (89966) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement COI Form Open Access

Editorial

Suspected penile fracture: to operate or not to operate?

Ian S. Metzler, Amanda B. Reed-Maldonado, Tom F. Lue

Published online: 26 October 2017

PDF Pages: 981-986 Full Text (85768) Open Access

Review Article

Role of application of tadalafil 5 mg once-daily (≥6 months) in men with erectile dysfunction from six randomized controlled trials

Jiajia Ma, Zi Liu, Jitao Wu, Zhongbao Zhou, Xuebao Zhang, Yuanshan Cui, Chunhua Lin

Published online: 23 June 2020

PDF Pages: 1405-1414 Full Text (83652) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Review Article

The dangers of sexual enhancement supplements and counterfeit drugs to “treat” erectile dysfunction

Jason Chiang, Faysal A. Yafi, Philip J. Dorsey Jr, Wayne J. G. Hellstrom

Published online: 09 February 2017

PDF Pages: 12-19 Full Text (80246) Open Access

Review Article

Demographic and temporal trends in transgender identities and gender confirming surgery

Ian T. Nolan, Christopher J. Kuhner, Geolani W. Dy

Published online: 27 June 2019

PDF Pages: 184-190 Full Text (75000) Open Access

Review Article

Asian herbals and aphrodisiacs used for managing ED

Peter H. C. Lim

Published online: 29 April 2017

PDF Pages: 167-175 Full Text (72490) Open Access

Review Article

Premature ejaculation: do we have effective therapy?

Ege Can Serefoglu, Theodore R. Saitz, Landon Trost, Wayne J.G. Hellstrom

Published online: 28 March 2013

PDF Pages: 45-53 Full Text (70473) Open Access

Expert Opinions on Challenging Cases

Commentary on the myths of Peyronie’s disease

Alex K Wu, Tom F Lue

Published online: 12 December 2012

PDF Pages: 239-244 Full Text (68487) Open Access

Review Article

Beyond testosterone cypionate: evidence behind the use of nandrolone in male health and wellness

Michael M. Pan, Jason R. Kovac

Published online: 01 April 2016

PDF Pages: 213-219 Full Text (66718) Open Access

Review Article

Phalloplasty for the genetic male

Giulio Garaffa, Gabriele Antonini, Vincenzo Gentile, David J. Ralph

Published online: 30 June 2012

PDF Pages: 103-108 Full Text (62359) Open Access

Podium Lecture

PL 03. Male sexual function before and after urethral stricture surgery

Hong Li

Published online: 07 March 2012

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Original Article

Overall satisfaction, sexual function, and the durability of neophallus dimensions following staged female to male genital gender confirming surgery: the Institute of Urology, London U.K. experience

Maurice M. Garcia, Nim A. Christopher, Francesco De Luca, Marco Spilotros, David J. Ralph

Incidence of urinary extravasation and rate of ureteral stenting after high-grade renal trauma in adults: a meta-analysis

Sorena Keihani, Ross E. Anderson, Michelle Fiander, Mary M. McFarland, Gregory J. Stoddard, James M. Hotaling, Jeremy B. Myers

Safety and efficacy of daily Revactin^® in men with erectile dysfunction: a 3-month pilot study

Sabine Nguyen, Jacob Rajfer, Magda Shaheen

Review Article

Future perspectives of prostate cancer therapy

Murali Gururajan, Edwin M. Posadas, Leland W. K. Chung

Small RNA and its application in andrology and urology

Ji Wang, Long-Cheng Li

TGF-β mediated DNA methylation in prostate cancer

Chung Lee, Qiang Zhang, Xaolin Zi, Atreya Dash, Marcelo B Soares, Farahnaz Rahmatpanah, Zhenyu Jia, Michael McClelland, Dan Mercola

Cystine nephrolithiasis

Hasan Fattah, Yasmin Hambaroush, David S. Goldfarb

Kidney stone risk following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

Benjamin K. Canales, Ricardo D. Gonzalez

Reactive oxygen species, inflammation and calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis

Saeed R. Khan

Outlining the limits of partial nephrectomy

Sameer Chopra, Raj Satkunasivam, Chandan Kundavaram, Gangning Liang, Inderbir S. Gill

Mechanisms of resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

Thenappan Chandrasekar, Joy C. Yang, Allen C. Gao, Christopher P. Evans

Prostate cancer metastasis: roles of recruitment and reprogramming, cell signal network and three-dimensional growth characteristics

Shabnam Ziaee, Gina Chia-Yi Chu, Jen-Ming Huang, Shirly Sieh, Leland W. K. Chung

Inflammation in prostate cancer progression and therapeutic targeting

Timothy Stark, Lydia Livas, Natasha Kyprianou

Sympathetic nervous system and chronic bladder pain: a new tune for an old song

Ana Charrua, Rui Pinto, Lori Ann Birder, Francisco Cruz

Angiogenic factors, bladder neuroplasticity and interstitial cystitis—new pathobiological insights

Ricardo Saban

Increased bladder permeability in interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome

Robert E. Hurst, Beverley Greenwood-Van Meerveld, Amy B. Wisniewski, Samuel VanGordon, Hsueh Kung Lin, Bradley P. Kropp, Rheal A. Towner

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based radiomics for prostate cancer radiotherapy

Fei Yang, John C. Ford, Nesrin Dogan, Kyle R. Padgett, Adrian L. Breto, Matthew C. Abramowitz, Alan Dal Pra, Alan Pollack, Radka Stoyanova

Editorial

PIVOT and the challenges of localized prostate cancer care

Aviva E. Weinberg, James D. Brooks

Research Highlights

Enzalutamide: the emperor of all anti-androgens

Emmanuel S. Antonarakis

Review Articles

Androgen receptor gene mutation, rearrangement, polymorphism

Kurtis Eisermann, Dan Wang, Yifeng Jing, Laura E. Pascal, Zhou Wang

Androgen receptor epigenetics

Changmeng Cai, Xin Yuan, Steven P. Balk

Androgen receptor genomic regulation

Hong-Jian Jin, Jung Kim, Jindan Yu

Decoding the androgen receptor splice variants

Changxue Lu, Jun Luo

Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in prostate growth and tumor progression

Campbell M. Grant, Natasha Kyprianou

Steroid hormone synthetic pathways in prostate cancer

Elahe A. Mostaghel

Near-infrared fluorescence and nuclear imaging and targeting of prostate cancer

Jason Wu, Dongfeng Pan, Leland W.K. Chung

Mini-Review

Multi-peptide immunotherapeutic vaccine for renal cell carcinoma: getting the troops all worked up

Kavitha Yaddanapudi, John W. Eaton

Review Article: Hypospadias

Do endocrine disruptors cause hypospadias?

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Translational Andrology and Urology (Print ISSN 2223-4683; Online ISSN 2223-4691; Transl Androl Urol; TAU) is an open access, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly journal that covers various aspects in diseases of male and female urinary tract including kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra and the male reproductive organs like penis, testes, scrotum, prostate etc.