Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Nephrology journal rankings 2016
53 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Nephrology has 53 ranked journals in 2016. The median journal has an OJR of 0.81, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.04 on 2015; Q1 starts at OJR 1.53. The top three are Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney International, and Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. 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 2013–2015, the window the 2016 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)
- Surgery821
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine315
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health256
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine248
- Oncology198
- Infectious Diseases189
- Epidemiology187
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism151
- Neurology151
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging142
- Psychiatry and Mental health134
- Physiology131
- Nephrology53
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine102
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health91
- Ophthalmology80
- Dermatology78
- Hematology70
- Obstetrics and Gynecology64
- Rheumatology58
- Reproductive Medicine46
- Pharmacology44
- Complementary and alternative medicine43
- Emergency Medicine37
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation31
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology21
- Genetics20
- Immunology and Allergy19
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
53 ranked journals
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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 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 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 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Journal of the American Society of NephrologyAmerican Society of Nephrology | 3.20Q1 | 7.58 0.45 down from 2015 | 1,076 | 98% | — | ||
2Kidney InternationalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.57Q1 | 5.65 0.62 down from 2015 | 1,196 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
3Clinical Journal of the American Society of NephrologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.51Q1 | 5.21no change | 862 | 100% | — | ||
4American Journal of NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 2.50Q1 | 3.31 4.15 down from 2015 | 384 | 49% | — | ||
5The Nephron journals/Nephron journalsPublisher not listed | 2.34Q1 | 4.52 3.47 up from 2015 | 176 | 41% | — | ||
6Seminars in NephrologyElsevier BV · United States | 2.09Q1 | 4.14 1.08 down from 2015 | 177 | 21% | $3,500 | ||
7American Journal of Kidney DiseasesElsevier BV · United States | 2.06Q1 | 5.46 0.70 up from 2015 | 1,001 | 31% | $3,900 | ||
8Kidney & Blood Pressure ResearchOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.90Q1 | 4.80 1.90 down from 2015 | 226 | 100% | $2,780 | ||
9Nephrology Dialysis TransplantationOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.87Q1 | 4.69 0.04 up from 2015 | 1,140 | 43% | $3,926 | ||
10Advances in Chronic Kidney DiseaseElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.13 0.33 down from 2015 | 204 | 13% | $2,900 | ||
11Current Opinion in Nephrology & HypertensionLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.31 0.33 up from 2015 | 266 | 40% | — | ||
12Kidney International SupplementsElsevier BV · United States | 1.70Q1 | 7.96 4.58 up from 2015 | 91 | 100% | $3,500 | ||
13World Journal of NephrologyOABaishideng Publishing Group · United States | 1.69Q1 | 3.54 0.15 up from 2015 | 104 | 100% | — | ||
14Cardiorenal MedicineOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.53Q1 | 3.72 1.27 up from 2015 | 103 | 86% | — | ||
15BMC NephrologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 3.28 0.06 up from 2015 | 702 | 100% | $3,090 | ||
16International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular DiseaseOADove Medical Press · New Zealand | 1.17Q2 | 3.09 0.32 up from 2015 | 109 | 100% | $2,320 | ||
17Pediatric NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.09Q2 | 2.64 0.25 down from 2015 | 806 | 31% | $4,337 | ||
18Seminars in DialysisWiley · United States | 1.01Q2 | 1.82 0.06 down from 2015 | 366 | 17% | $3,730 | ||
19Journal of Renal NutritionElsevier BV · United States | 1.01Q2 | 2.56 0.23 up from 2015 | 225 | 23% | $3,490 | ||
20Nephron Clinical PracticeKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.96Q2 | 2.56 0.33 up from 2015 | 226 | — | — | ||
21Nephron Experimental NephrologyKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.94Q2 | 2.35 0.25 up from 2015 | 72 | — | — | ||
22Blood PurificationKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.86Q2 | 2.04 0.09 down from 2015 | 329 | 40% | — | ||
23Clinical Kidney JournalOAOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.85Q2 | 2.31 1.43 up from 2015 | 460 | 100% | $3,335 | ||
24Journal of NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Italy | 0.84Q2 | 2.34 0.57 up from 2015 | 279 | 29% | $4,337 | ||
25Clinical and Experimental NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 0.82Q2 | 1.71 0.02 down from 2015 | 421 | 26% | $3,990 | ||
26International Journal of NephrologyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 2.05 0.10 up from 2015 | 85 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
27Nature Reviews NephrologyNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 3.33 0.58 up from 2015 | 746 | 16% | — | ||
28Therapeutic Apheresis and DialysisWiley · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 1.72 0.20 up from 2015 | 293 | 16% | $3,350 | ||
29Hemodialysis InternationalWiley · Canada | 0.79Q3 | 1.54 0.02 up from 2015 | 327 | 27% | $3,700 | ||
30Case Reports in Nephrology and DialysisOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.77Q3 | 1.64 0.30 up from 2015 | 80 | 100% | $1,030 | ||
31International Urology and NephrologySpringer Science+Business Media · Hungary | 0.76Q3 | 1.70 0.05 up from 2015 | 795 | 9% | $3,690 | ||
32Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and DiseaseOASAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 1.66 0.90 up from 2015 | 82 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
33Journal of Renal CareWiley · France | 0.69Q3 | 1.38 0.21 up from 2015 | 131 | 34% | $3,350 | ||
33Nephron ExtraOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.69Q3 | 1.30 0.15 up from 2015 | 48 | 100% | $1,949 | ||
35NephrologyWiley · Australia | 0.69Q3 | 1.53 0.21 down from 2015 | 579 | 26% | $4,110 | ||
36Journal of NephropathologyOAIran | 0.66Q3 | 1.11 1.54 down from 2015 | 35 | 100% | $400 | ||
37Clinical NephrologyDustri-Verlag · Germany | 0.66Q3 | 1.40 0.08 down from 2015 | 322 | 10% | — | ||
38Brazilian Journal of NephrologyOASociedade Brasileira de Nefrologia · Brazil | 0.58Q3 | 1.27 0.02 up from 2015 | 200 | 100% | — | ||
39Peritoneal Dialysis InternationalSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.50 0.34 up from 2015 | 446 | 76% | $4,150 | ||
40Renal FailureOATaylor & Francis · United States | 0.49Q3 | 1.34 0.11 up from 2015 | 821 | 100% | $2,306 | ||
41Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and TransplantationOAMedknow · Saudi Arabia | 0.44Q4 | 0.81 0.36 down from 2015 | 203 | 100% | — | ||
42Kidney Research and Clinical PracticeOAElsevier BV · South Korea | 0.43Q4 | 1.11 0.64 up from 2015 | 133 | 100% | — | ||
43Indian Journal of NephrologyOAMedknow · India | 0.38Q4 | 0.77 0.06 up from 2015 | 368 | 100% | — | ||
44NefrologíaOAElsevier BV · Spain | 0.35Q4 | 0.76no 2015 value | 124 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
45Kidney DiseasesOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 0.30Q4 | 0.60no 2015 value | 30 | 100% | $2,320 | — | |
46Revista de investigaci�n Cl�nicaOAPermanyer · Mexico | 0.28Q4 | 0.58 0.31 up from 2015 | 70 | 100% | $2,000 | ||
47Nefrología (English Edition)OAElsevier BV · Spain | 0.20Q4 | 0.41no 2015 value | 87 | 100% | $0 listed | — | |
48Néphrologie & ThérapeutiqueElsevier BV · France | 0.19Q4 | 0.48 0.01 down from 2015 | 286 | 1% | $1,780 | ||
49Open Journal of NephrologyOAScientific Research Publishing · United States | 0.17Q4 | 0.47 0.27 up from 2015 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
50The Open Urology & Nephrology JournalOABentham Science Publishers | 0.16Q4 | 0.32 0.07 up from 2015 | 84 | 100% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Nephrology highlighted.
- Surgery821
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine315
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health256
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine248
- Oncology198
- Infectious Diseases189
- Epidemiology187
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism151
- Neurology151
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging142
- Psychiatry and Mental health134
- Physiology131
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine102
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health91
- Ophthalmology80
- Dermatology78
- Hematology70
- Obstetrics and Gynecology64
- Rheumatology58
- Nephrology53
- Reproductive Medicine46
- Pharmacology44
- Complementary and alternative medicine43
- Emergency Medicine37
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation31
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology21
- Genetics20
- Immunology and Allergy19
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology6
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics1
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
24 additional Nephrology journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, 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: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 53
- Window papers (baseline)
- 25,880 +15.6% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 0.81 +7.5% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 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.