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About the Journal
Name of Journal World Journal of Nephrology
Title Abbreviation World J Nephrol
ISSN 2220-6124 (online)
Launch Date February 6, 2012
Frequency Quarterly
DOI 10.5527
Background

World Journal of Nephrology (WJN, World J Nephrol) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing innovative, novel, and practical clinical, basic, and translational research achievements in the fields of nephrology. The types of articles published in WJN include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. The journal is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group.

Aim

The primary aim of WJN is to provide scholars and readers from various fields of nephrology with a platform for publishing high-quality clinical, basic, and translational research achievements. In order to ensure the quality, fairness, and transparency of publication, WJN has implemented a variety of measures, as follows: 

1 Academic norms and ethical requirements. Adherence to both academic norms and ethical requirements is closely related to peer review and first-decision making for the manuscript. Authors are recommended to prepare their articles according to the appropriate international publication recommendations, including the STROBE Statement, CONSORT 2010 Statement, PRISMA 2009 Checklist, and CARE Checklist – 2016: Information for writing a case report. For all articles involving human studies, organ transplantations, and/or animal experiments, before their acceptance, author(s) must provide the related formal ethics documents that were reviewed and approved by their local ethical review committee. For full guidelines for authors, please visit: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/gerinfo/204.

2 Peer-review process. Articles published in WJN must undergo rigorous external, single-blind peer review. For the full peer-review process, please visit: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/gerinfo/241.

3 Designation of co-first authors and/or co-corresponding authors. Designation of co-first authors and/or co-corresponding authors is permitted. For the policy of allowing co-first authors and co-corresponding authors who made equal contribution to a manuscript, please visit: https://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/GerInfo/310.

4 Publication of innovative original articles. WJN's acceptance of a manuscript for publication is based on its novelty, innovativeness, data accuracy, image reliability, clear language expression, and ethical requirements. 

5 Disclosure of documents related to the article. The peer review report, author response to the peer review report, biostatistics review certificate, copyright license agreement, institutional ethics committee approval document, informed consent document(s), conflict-of-interest statement, CrossCheck detection report, corresponding author(s) personal ORCID number(s), funding information, language editing certificate, and other relevant documents will be published online along with the article to allow for an open and transparent publishing process.

Scope WJN mainly publishes articles reporting research results obtained in the field of nephrology and covering a wide range of topics including acute kidney injury, acute or chronic interstitial nephritis, AIDS-associated nephropathy, anuria, chronic kidney disease and related complications, CKD-MBD, diabetes insipidus, diabetic nephropathies, Fanconi syndrome, glomerular diseases, hepatorenal syndrome, hydronephrosis, hyperoxaluria, inborn or acquired errors renal tubular transport, renal hypertension, kidney cortex necrosis, cystic kidney diseases, kidney neoplasms, kidney papillary necrosis, nephritis, nephrocalcinosis, nephrolithiasis, nephrosclerosis, nephrosis, perinephritis, rapid progressive glomerulonephritis, renal artery obstruction,  renal nutcracker syndrome,  renal tuberculosis, renal tubular acidosis, thrombotic microangiopathy, uremia, and Zellweger syndrome.
Open Access Open access
Indexing/Abstracting The WJN is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, Scopus, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database. 
Journal Metrics The WJN’s CiteScore for 2024 is 2.7 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Nephrology is 45/91.
Article Processing Charge Article processing charge
Editors-in-Chief Ying-Yong Zhao
Publisher Publisher
Research Domain Urology and Nephrology
Article Reprints Article reprints
Permissions Permissions
Help Desk Help desk
Special Statement Special statement
About the BPG Baishideng Publishing Group (BPG), founded in 1993, is headquartered in California, USA. BPG is committed to editing and publishing high-quality, open-access, peer-reviewed clinical medical journals. Our team consists of administrative team, Editorial Office, and Production Department. Our mission is to provide high-quality platforms for authors to publish clinical, basic, and translational medical research results. Our vision is to help authors expand their academic influence, provide readers with high-quality academic content, and lead the development of the field. Our values are to adhere to our review guidelines, decision guidelines, and publication ethics, to ensure the fairness, openness, and transparency of the process from the author's submission to the first review, peer review, and final review, and to edit and publish each high-quality peer-reviewed article.
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