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In this paper under review, a survey on semifield planes with an autotopism group acting transitively on a side of the autotopism triangle is presented. In particular, the main result is the following characterization of the generalized twisted field planes. Let \(\pi\) be a non-Desarguesian semifield plane of order \(p^n\neq 2^6\), with \(p\) a prime number and \(n\geq 3\). Let \(\mathcal G\) be the autotopism group of \(\pi\) relative to an autotopism triangle \(\Delta\) and let \(\overline{\mathcal G}\) the group induced by \(\mathcal G\) on the line at infinity. Then \(\pi\) is a generalized twisted field plane, if and only if, \(\overline{\mathcal G}\) has an element of order \((p^k-1)(p^n-1)/(p^m-1)\) for some integers \(k\) and \(m\), where \(k| m\), \(m| n\), and \(k\geq 2\) when \(p=2\), except possibly when \(n=2m\) and \(p=2\) or \(p=3\). For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00028].