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Journal rankings · indicator year 2005

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Subfield ranking · 2005

Nephrology journal rankings 2005

31 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Nephrology has 31 ranked journals in 2005. The median journal has an OJR of 0.60, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2004; Q1 starts at OJR 0.94. The top three are Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, and American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2005. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 score is computed on.

31
1% of Medicine
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.60+0.02 vs 2004
This subfieldAll 0.79World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

16%
All fields: 15%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,690
Median positive listed APC: $3,690 among 19 journals. 12 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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31 ranked journals

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Quartile

Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

They are computed within the list on screen, so a journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 in the global ranking.

Access
APC (list price)
Nephrology ranking, 2005

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2004. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2002–2004, the window the 2005 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2002–2004 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2005.

Compare
1Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology
2.68Q17.02 0.32 up from 20041,2607%—
2Kidney InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.76Q14.95 0.30 up from 20042,17993%$3,500
3American Journal of Kidney DiseasesElsevier BV · United States
1.69Q14.45 0.79 up from 20041,19816%$3,900
4Current Opinion in Nephrology & HypertensionLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.52Q14.14 0.73 up from 20042522%—
5Seminars in NephrologyElsevier BV · United States
1.32Q13.15 0.75 up from 200420111%$3,500
6American Journal of NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.07Q13.15 1.61 up from 200422626%—
7Nephrology Dialysis TransplantationOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.03Q12.64 0.47 up from 20041,92930%$3,926
8Advances in Renal Replacement TherapyElsevier BV · United States
0.94Q12.66 1.42 up from 200485——
9Journal of NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Italy
0.92Q21.86 1.29 up from 2004351%$4,337
10Seminars in DialysisWiley · United States
0.79Q22.19 0.62 up from 20043106%$3,730
11Kidney & Blood Pressure ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.76Q22.29 1.04 up from 200413020%$2,780
12Nephron Clinical PracticeKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.68Q21.63 0.30 up from 200414514%—
13Blood PurificationKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.66Q21.57 0.43 down from 200421830%—
14Journal of Renal NutritionElsevier BV · United States
0.65Q21.95 0.43 up from 200411110%$3,490
15Clinical NephrologyDustri-Verlag · Germany
0.64Q21.47 0.28 up from 20044922%—
16Nephron Experimental NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.60Q21.57 0.05 up from 200416616%—
17Pediatric NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
0.58Q31.67 0.05 up from 20048324%$4,337
18Advances in Chronic Kidney DiseaseElsevier BV · United States
0.54Q31.12no 2004 value3333%$2,900—
19BMC NephrologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
0.54Q31.32 0.07 up from 200438100%$3,090
0.53Q3—no 2004 value399——
21Therapeutic Apheresis and DialysisWiley · United Kingdom
0.49Q31.29 0.03 down from 20042513%$3,350
22Clinical and Experimental NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
0.41Q31.41 0.92 up from 20041512%$3,990
23Peritoneal Dialysis InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.38Q31.32 0.49 up from 20043922%$4,150
0.36Q31.15 0.73 up from 20041235%$3,700
25Renal FailureOATaylor & Francis · United States
0.35Q40.81 0.07 up from 200432365%$2,306
26International Urology and NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Hungary
0.26Q40.37 0.13 up from 20043953%$3,690
27NephrologyWiley · Australia
0.24Q41.02 0.81 up from 200433411%$4,110
28Nephrology Nursing JournalAmerican Nephrology Nurses Association · United States
0.06Q40.00 0.08 down from 2004730%—
29Hong Kong Journal of NephrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.05Q40.12 0.09 up from 200463100%—
0.05Q40.15 0.11 up from 2004520%$2,000
31Kidney Research and Clinical PracticeOAElsevier BV · South Korea
0.00Q40.00no change57100%—

Citations made in 2005. Corpus-wide, 70.9% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

7 additional Nephrology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2002–2004, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2005. Publication window: 2002–2004. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
31
Window papers (baseline)
10,968 +23.6% from indicator year 2002
Median OJR
0.60 +23.6% from indicator year 2002
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2002–2004 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals2124262728313434333737414046514953585958586162656562
Window papers (baseline)7,1028,2338,8769,71310,06210,96812,09213,34514,93418,91020,52622,00521,12722,38823,92324,98425,88026,46527,23328,14129,15430,87132,77634,02234,44935,470
Median OJR0.580.4760.4830.620.570.600.630.670.7280.7030.7210.7160.820.7500.7300.850.810.7470.840.800.830.7330.7550.680.7040.724

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.