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Editorial
. 2025 Oct 15;4(6):e70086.
doi: 10.1002/imt2.70086. eCollection 2025 Dec.

iMeta Conference 2025: Creating high-impact international journals

Zhihao Zhu  1   2 Lin Zhang  3 Xiaofang Yao  1 Meiyin Zeng  1 Yao Wang  1 Hao Luo  1 Yuanping Zhou  4 Tianyuan Zhang  1 Jiani Xun  1 Defeng Bai  1 Haifei Yang  5 Shanshan Xu  6 Yang Zhou  7 Yunyun Gao  8 Jinbo Xu  9 Wei Han  10 ZiAng Shen  11 Bangzhou Zhang  12 Tengfei Ma  13 Xiu-Lin Wan  1 Chuang Ma  14 Fengjiao Hui  15 Hao Bai  16 Lijing Bai  17 Qing Bai  18 Qiangguo Bao  19 Guodong Cao  20 Peng Cao  21 Qiqi Cao  22 Hu Chen  23 Jiawen Chen  24 Jiaxu Chen  25 Lihua Chen  26 Tingting Chen  27 Yi Chen  28 Haipeng Cui  29 Shaoxing Dai  30 Xi-Jian Dai  31 Xiaofeng Dai  32 Yanqi Dang  33 Lei Deng  34 Yun Deng  35 Xia Ding  36 Binhua Dong  37 Ling Dong  38 Shujie Dou  39 Hongzhi Du  40 Zhencheng Fang  41 Xiaoxiao Feng  42 Min Fu  43 Yuan Gao  44 Wenping Gong  45 Xiang Guo  46 Wenjie Han  47 Zikai Hao  48 Zheng-Guo He  49 Haibo Hu  50 Haiming Hu  51 Xuefei Hu  52 Liang Huang  53 Xianya Huang  28 Xueting Huang  39 Haochen Hui  54 Dingjiacheng Jia  55 Aimin Jiang  56 Di Jiang  57 Kun Jiang  58 Dewei Jiang  59 Ying Jin  60 Kunyang Lai  19 Chun Li  25 Feng Li  61 Fuyong Li  62 Jing Li  63 Juan Li  40 Junling Li  64 Kui Li  17 Ling Li  65 Moli Li  22 Peiwu Li  7 Peng Li  66 Runze Li  67 Shengnan Li  44 Shujin Li  39 Wanting Li  68 Wenting Li  69 Xiaojing Li  23 Xinrui Li  70 Xuemeng Li  2 Qiqi Liang  47 Xiaoping Liao  71 Boyang Liu  72 Canzhao Liu  73 Chang Liu  74 Duanrui Liu  75 Furong Liu  76 Jianjun Liu  77 Jinyao Liu  78 Siqi Liu  79 Tianyang Liu  80 Wenjuan Liu  50 Yan Liu  81 Yang Liu  82 Yi Liu  83 Yuan Liu  84 Yunhuan Liu  85 Zhipeng Liu  86 Zhiyong Liu  87 Xin Lu  88 Xiao Luo  89 Guanju Ma  39 Jialin Meng  20 Yuanfa Meng  90 Runyu Miao  91 Linxuan Miao  92 Yawen Ni  93 Dongze Niu  94 Tingting Niu  83 Hongzhao Pan  44 Guoqiang Qin  95 Tiantian Qiu  12 Yueping Qiu  96 Hui Qu  90 Linghang Qu  64 Na Ren  64 Qiang Sun  97 Run Shang  98 Peize She  64 Xihui Shen  99 Bohan Shi  100 You Shu  101 Jiawei Song  16 Weibin Song  102 Qi Su  103 Qingzhu Sun  104 YuPing Sun  105 Zijin Sun  25 Bufu Tang  106 Deqin Tang  29 Hua Tang  29 Yongfu Tao  107 Teng Teng  108 Yanye Tu  109 Cheng Wang  110 Hui Wang  111 Yunhao Wang  112 Chunli Wang  64 Dingjie Wang  113 Gang Wang  114 Jin Wang  115 Kaiyi Wang  116 Mingbang Wang  117 Shan Wang  118 Shixiang Wang  119 Xiaojie Wang  120 Xing-Chang Wang  121 Yunzhe Wang  122 Jiale Wang  123   124 Zheng Wang  125   126 Weijie Wang  127 Yongjun Wei  128 Wei Xu  12 Fan Wu  129 Junling Wu  28 Shijuan Wu  54 Jian Xiao  123   124 Weihua Xiao  130 Yang Xiao  131 Xi Xiong  64 Xue Xiong  66 Feng Xu  132 Junyu Xu  133 Wen Xu  134 Jun Xu  135 Yao Xu  136 Jun Yan  102 Lutian Yao  137 Jia Yang  138 Lulu Yang  23 Xingzhen Yang  131 Naiyi Yin  139 Hua You  140 Min You  129 Ting Yu  141 Yongyao Yu  142 Renqiang Yu  143 Shuofeng Yuan  144 Chaoxiong Yue  123   124 Xiaoya Zeng  145 Andong Zha  146 Leilei Zhai  147 Chi Zhang  148 Dong Zhang  149 Hengguo Zhang  150 Heng Zhang  151 Hongyu Zhang  98 Jiahao Zhang  152 Jinyang Zhang  153 Lishan Zhang  12 Qi Zhang  7 Xiang Zhang  154 Xiangyu Zhang  86 Xuelei Zhang  155 Yancong Zhang  156 Yuan Zhang  145 Zhenyu Zhang  157 Jiwei Zhao  28 Jingxuan Zhao  28 Kai Zhao  158 Mingjuan Zhao  159 Yi Zhao  160 Yunxiang Zhao  161 Jixin Zhong  162 Ling Zhong  163 Xiangjian Zhong  50 Dan Zhou  164 Wei Zhou  165 Wen Zhou  166 Yiqian Zhou  12 Zhemin Zhou  167 Shiquan Zhu  22 Shuang-Jiang Liu  58 Suyin Feng  168 Shuangxia Jin  15 Chuanxing Xiao  44 Ziheng Wang  169 Peng Luo  170 Tong Chen  19 Gang Chen  171 Yong-Xin Liu  1
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iMeta Conference 2025: Creating high-impact international journals

Zhihao Zhu et al. Imeta. .

Abstract

The iMeta Conference 2025, part of the iMeta Conference series, themed "Creating High-Impact International Journals," held at the Huangjiahu Campus of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine from August 23rd to 25th, 2025, and focused on frontier topics such as microbiology, medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, botany, and research career development. The event aimed to support the development of researchers and strengthen the impact of academic journals. Through invited reports, thematic seminars, and poster presentations, the conference highlighted hot topics including multi-omics technologies, microbe-host interactions, AI-assisted research, live biotherapeutic products, and the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. The event demonstrated the innovative momentum of interdisciplinary integration and technological convergence, providing an international platform for academic exchange and laying a foundation for building an innovative scientific research ecosystem and enhancing the global influence of Chinese academic journals.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Shuang‐Jiang Liu is the Editor‐in‐Chief of iMeta; Yong‐Xin Liu and Tong Chen are Executive Editors of iMeta.

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Overview of the themes and meaning of iMeta Conference 2025.

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