Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Nephrology journal rankings 2006
34 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Nephrology has 34 ranked journals in 2006. The median journal has an OJR of 0.63, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2005; Q1 starts at OJR 1.00. The top three are Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, and American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields of Medicine (42)
- Surgery428
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine181
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health154
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine150
- Oncology120
- Epidemiology97
- Infectious Diseases95
- Psychiatry and Mental health89
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging86
- Neurology82
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism78
- Physiology75
- Nephrology34
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine54
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health54
- Dermatology51
- Hematology48
- Ophthalmology48
- Obstetrics and Gynecology41
- Rheumatology37
- Pharmacology29
- Complementary and alternative medicine27
- Reproductive Medicine27
- Emergency Medicine24
- Geriatrics and Gerontology23
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Rehabilitation18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine17
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Immunology and Allergy12
- Genetics9
- Hepatology9
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Urology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
34 ranked journals
Filters
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. | 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology | 2.54Q1 | 7.11 0.09 up from 2005 | 1,319 | 7% | — | ||
2Kidney InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.75Q1 | 4.83 0.12 down from 2005 | 2,300 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
3American Journal of Kidney DiseasesElsevier BV · United States | 1.66Q1 | 4.32 0.13 down from 2005 | 1,101 | 24% | $3,900 | ||
4Current Opinion in Nephrology & HypertensionLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.57Q1 | 4.29 0.15 up from 2005 | 247 | 2% | — | ||
5American Journal of NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.30Q1 | 3.32 0.16 up from 2005 | 201 | 15% | — | ||
6Seminars in NephrologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.30Q1 | 3.31 0.16 up from 2005 | 214 | 12% | $3,500 | ||
7Journal of NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 1.02Q1 | 2.34 0.49 up from 2005 | 51 | 2% | $4,337 | ||
8Advances in Renal Replacement TherapyElsevier BV · United States | 1.01Q1 | 4.00 1.34 up from 2005 | 47 | — | — | ||
9Clinical Journal of the American Society of NephrologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.00Q1 | 2.17no 2005 value | 30 | 2% | — | — | |
10Nephrology Dialysis TransplantationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 2.37 0.27 down from 2005 | 2,059 | 31% | $3,926 | ||
11Seminars in DialysisWiley · United States | 0.84Q2 | 2.06 0.13 down from 2005 | 312 | 2% | $3,730 | ||
12Advances in Chronic Kidney DiseaseElsevier BV · United States | 0.76Q2 | 1.43 0.31 up from 2005 | 84 | 17% | $2,900 | ||
13Kidney & Blood Pressure ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.75Q2 | 1.82 0.47 down from 2005 | 114 | 26% | $2,780 | ||
14Blood PurificationKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.74Q2 | 1.65 0.08 up from 2005 | 228 | 28% | — | ||
15Nephron Clinical PracticeKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.68Q2 | 1.53 0.10 down from 2005 | 243 | 19% | — | ||
16Pediatric NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.64Q2 | 1.93 0.26 up from 2005 | 1,002 | 17% | $4,337 | ||
17Clinical NephrologyDustri-Verlag · Germany | 0.64Q2 | 1.44 0.03 down from 2005 | 514 | 1% | — | ||
18Nephron Experimental NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.62Q3 | 1.68 0.11 up from 2005 | 187 | 26% | — | ||
19Journal of Renal NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 0.58Q3 | 1.65 0.30 down from 2005 | 145 | 16% | $3,490 | ||
20Therapeutic Apheresis and DialysisWiley · United Kingdom | 0.56Q3 | 1.54 0.25 up from 2005 | 242 | 3% | $3,350 | ||
21Clinical and Experimental NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.54Q3 | 1.27 0.14 down from 2005 | 166 | 4% | $3,990 | ||
22BMC NephrologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 0.52Q3 | 1.63 0.31 up from 2005 | 45 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
23NephrologyWiley · Australia | 0.50Q3 | 1.22 0.20 up from 2005 | 329 | 15% | $4,110 | ||
24Peritoneal Dialysis InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 1.57 0.25 up from 2005 | 406 | 3% | $4,150 | ||
25Renal FailureOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.38Q3 | 0.92 0.11 up from 2005 | 376 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
26Hemodialysis InternationalWiley · Canada | 0.32Q3 | 0.85 0.30 down from 2005 | 154 | 6% | $3,700 | ||
27International Urology and NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Hungary | 0.29Q4 | 0.53 0.17 up from 2005 | 391 | 3% | $3,690 | ||
28Nature Reviews NephrologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 0.18Q4 | 0.56no 2005 value | 41 | 11% | — | — | |
29NefrologíaOAElsevier BV · Spain | 0.14Q4 | 0.32 0.20 up from 2005 | 36 | 0% | $0 listed | ||
30Néphrologie & ThérapeutiqueElsevier BV · France | 0.04Q4 | 0.08no 2005 value | 48 | 0% | $1,780 | — | |
31Revista de investigaci�n Cl�nicaOAPermanyer · Mexico | 0.03Q4 | 0.07 0.08 down from 2005 | 61 | 0% | $2,000 | ||
32Hong Kong Journal of NephrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.03Q4 | 0.13 0.02 up from 2005 | 61 | 100% | — | ||
33Nephrology Nursing JournalAmerican Nephrology Nurses Association · United States | 0.02Q4 | 0.07 0.07 up from 2005 | 43 | 0% | — | ||
34Kidney Research and Clinical PracticeOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.01Q4 | 0.02 0.02 up from 2005 | 58 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Nephrology highlighted.
- Surgery428
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine181
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health154
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine150
- Oncology120
- Epidemiology97
- Infectious Diseases95
- Psychiatry and Mental health89
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging86
- Neurology82
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism78
- Physiology75
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine54
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health54
- Dermatology51
- Hematology48
- Ophthalmology48
- Obstetrics and Gynecology41
- Rheumatology37
- Nephrology34
- Pharmacology29
- Complementary and alternative medicine27
- Reproductive Medicine27
- Emergency Medicine24
- Geriatrics and Gerontology23
- Otorhinolaryngology18
- Rehabilitation18
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine17
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine14
- Immunology and Allergy12
- Genetics9
- Hepatology9
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine8
- Urology7
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation2
- Biochemistry1
- Family Practice1
- Anatomy0
- Health Informatics0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
5 additional Nephrology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 34
- Window papers (baseline)
- 12,092 +24.5% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 0.63 +1.1% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 21 | 24 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 31 | 34 | 34 | 33 | 37 | 37 | 41 | 40 | 46 | 51 | 49 | 53 | 58 | 59 | 58 | 58 | 61 | 62 | 65 | 65 | 62 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 7,102 | 8,233 | 8,876 | 9,713 | 10,062 | 10,968 | 12,092 | 13,345 | 14,934 | 18,910 | 20,526 | 22,005 | 21,127 | 22,388 | 23,923 | 24,984 | 25,880 | 26,465 | 27,233 | 28,141 | 29,154 | 30,871 | 32,776 | 34,022 | 34,449 | 35,470 | |
| Median OJR | 0.58 | 0.476 | 0.483 | 0.62 | 0.57 | 0.60 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.728 | 0.703 | 0.721 | 0.716 | 0.82 | 0.750 | 0.730 | 0.85 | 0.81 | 0.747 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 0.83 | 0.733 | 0.755 | 0.68 | 0.704 | 0.724 |
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.