Table 5.

Numbers of papers, including those with organ source identity statements by years and numbers of transplants

	No date of transplants in papers	All transplants prior to 2010*	Transplants before and after 2010 when volunteer pilot started	All transplants took place during pilot 2010–2014	Transplants occurred before and after 2014	All transplants occurred post-2014
Total included papers	61	192	148	38	6	0
Total number of transplants	2959	28 442	49 376	3937	763	0
33 papers claiming no executed prisoners (no. of transplants)		19 (2688)	8 (1212)	6 (1556)	0	0
14 papers claiming volunteers (no. of transplants)	1 (321)	8 (2269)	4 (387)	1 (12)	0	0
6 papers claiming donors gave consent (no. of transplants)	1 (40)	3 (200)	2 (1197)	0	0	0
10 papers with statement about donors implying voluntariness or consent (no. of transplants)	2 (11)	0	4 (619)	4 (153)	0	0

*In one paper,³⁷ the dates of the transplants were not recorded, but the paper, published in 2010, reported on research subjects whose grafts had been stable for at least 2 years, indicating transplant prior to 2010.