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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Subfield ranking · 2010

Nephrology journal rankings 2010

37 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Nephrology has 37 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.72, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.29. The top three are Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, and Current Opinion in Nephrology & Hypertension.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 score is computed on.

37
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.

0.72+0.02 vs 2009
This subfieldAll 0.93World 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.

19%
All fields: 20%
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.

$3,500
Median positive listed APC: $3,500 among 22 journals. Another 1 lists $0; 14 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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37 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, 2010

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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010.

Compare
1Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology
3.42Q18.43 0.73 up from 20091,02466%—
2Clinical Journal of the American Society of NephrologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.68Q15.86 0.53 up from 200981074%—
3Current Opinion in Nephrology & HypertensionLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.09Q15.34 0.96 up from 200924427%—
4Kidney InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands
2.01Q14.38 0.01 down from 20091,699100%$3,500
5American Journal of Kidney DiseasesElsevier BV · United States
1.89Q14.59 0.19 down from 20091,04022%$3,900
6Seminars in NephrologyElsevier BV · United States
1.70Q13.43 0.20 down from 200918039%$3,500
7Advances in Chronic Kidney DiseaseElsevier BV · United States
1.41Q12.62 0.31 down from 200917350%$2,900
8Nephrology Dialysis TransplantationOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.35Q13.45 0.40 up from 20092,19437%$3,926
9Seminars in DialysisWiley · United States
1.35Q12.40 0.56 down from 200935814%$3,730
10BMC NephrologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.29Q12.75 0.34 down from 200975100%$3,090
11Nephron Experimental NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.26Q23.57 1.09 up from 200912345%—
12Nephron Clinical PracticeKarger Publishers · Switzerland
1.09Q22.23 0.06 up from 200936330%—
13Pediatric NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.04Q22.39 0.16 down from 200995026%$4,337
14Journal of NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Italy
0.97Q22.22 0.63 up from 20091296%$4,337
15Kidney & Blood Pressure ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.88Q21.83 0.32 down from 200918033%$2,780
0.81Q21.56 0.23 down from 200924712%$3,700
17Clinical and Experimental NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan
0.80Q21.59 0.55 down from 20092759%$3,990
18NephrologyWiley · Australia
0.79Q21.68 0.21 up from 200945425%$4,110
19Journal of Renal NutritionElsevier BV · United States
0.72Q21.55 0.63 down from 200925021%$3,490
20International Urology and NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Hungary
0.61Q31.48 0.19 up from 200963511%$3,690
21Clinical NephrologyDustri-Verlag · Germany
0.61Q31.20 0.30 down from 20095265%—
22Peritoneal Dialysis InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
0.59Q31.51 0.19 down from 20095444%$4,150
23American Journal of NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.58Q30.93 0.19 down from 20091,40841%—
24Therapeutic Apheresis and DialysisWiley · United Kingdom
0.58Q31.38 0.05 down from 20092908%$3,350
25Renal FailureOATaylor & Francis · United States
0.55Q31.24 0.02 down from 200948598%$2,306
26Journal of Renal CareWiley · France
0.47Q30.99 0.23 down from 2009898%$3,350
27Nature Reviews NephrologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom
0.39Q31.66 0.48 up from 200977314%—
28Blood PurificationKarger Publishers · Switzerland
0.36Q30.70 0.06 down from 200978631%—
29Néphrologie & ThérapeutiqueElsevier BV · France
0.26Q40.60 0.18 up from 20092510%$1,780
0.23Q40.48 0.09 down from 20096,643——
31Clinical Kidney JournalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom
0.16Q40.37no change416100%$3,335
32Indian Journal of NephrologyOAMedknow · India
0.14Q40.37 0.13 up from 200981100%—
0.10Q40.16 0.08 down from 2009510%$2,000
34NefrologíaOAElsevier BV · Spain
0.10Q40.33 0.14 up from 2009580%$0 listed
35Hong Kong Journal of NephrologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
0.09Q40.18 0.01 up from 200948100%—
36Nephrology Nursing JournalAmerican Nephrology Nurses Association · United States
0.08Q40.13 0.02 down from 2009420%—
37Dialysis & TransplantationWiley · United States
0.07Q40.14 0.07 down from 200917768%—

Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

10 additional Nephrology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
37
Window papers (baseline)
20,526 +53.8% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
0.721 +7.9% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
7

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.