JOURNALS

Nephrology Journals
(plus Nutrition, Transplant, Diabetes, Epidemiology, Cardiology, and more)

[updated: June 2008 by Kam Kalantar-Zadeh, kamkal@ucla.edu]

This list is exclusively for internal utilization and may not be copied or reproduced.

Name/Category	Journal Impact Factor						Website
NEPHROLOGY	‘02	‘03	‘04	‘05	‘06	‘07
JASN	6.34	7.50	6.64	7.240	7.371	7.111	J Amer Soc Nephrol
KI	4.82	5.30	4.79	4.927	4.773	4.922	Kidney Int
AJP Renal Physiology	5.04	4.34	4.35	4.263	4.199	4.416	American Journal of Physiology, Renal Physiology
AJKD	3.61	3.90	4.04	4.412	4.072	3.981	Am J Kidney Dis
NDT	2.43	2.61	2.84	2.976	3.154	3.167	Nephrol Dial Transplant
CJASN						2.236	CJASN
Am J Nephrol (AJN)	1.09		1.34	2.459	2.879	2.182	http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=223979
Nature Clin Practice Nephrol					1.000	4.764	www.nature.com/ncpneph/index.html
Current Opin Nephrol Hyper	2.48	3.97	3.21	3.924	4.137	4.146	Curr Opinion Nephrol Hyperten
Seminars Nephrology	2.11	2.14	1.98	2.752	3.014	1.869	Seminars in Nephrology
Seminars Dialysis	1.39	2.04	2.58	2.724	2.902	2.606	Seminars in Dialysis
PDI	1.66	1.95	1.06	1.380	2.372	1.995	Peritoneal Dialysis International
Kidney Blood Press Res				2.408	1.895	1.092	Kidney Blood Press Res
Nephron * (split into3):	1.76		1.46			---	http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=223854
Nephron Clinical Practice			0.89	1.440		1.535	http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=223854
Nephron Exper Nephrol			0.95	1.394	1.400	1.675	http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=223854
Nephron Physiol						1.539	http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=223854
Adv Renal Rep Th * à [ended]	0.82	1.07		1.978	2.077	---
à Adv in CKD [new]				0.059	1.427	1.577	Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
Clin Nephrol	1.53	1.34	1.31	1.543	1.418	1.320	http://www.clinnephrol.com/
Pediatric Nephrol	1.39		1.44	1.620	2.077	1.936	Pediatric Nephrol
J Nephrol (Italy)	1.24			1.317	1.448	1.138	http://www.sin-italia.org/jnonline/
JREN (also under Nutrition)		1.35	1.14	1.778	1.387	1.565	Journal of Renal Nutrition
Blood Purification	2.12		1.79	1.119	1.493	1.822	Blood Purif
Int Urol Nephro					0.530	0.482	http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0301-1623
Hemodia Internat						??	http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1492-7535&site=1
BMC Nephrol						??	http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcnephrol
Ther Apher Dial						1.225
Nephrology (Australia)				1.023	1.095	1.241	Nephrology
Contrib Nephrol				0.803	1.148	1.926	Contribution to Nephrology
Renal Failure				0.540	0.699	0.623	Renal Failure
Dialysis Transplant				0.283	0.248	0.161	Dialysis Transplant
Nephrologia (Spain)				0.466	0.609	0.516	Nephrologia
Nephrologie (French)				0.276		??	Nephrologie
Scand J Urol Nephrol				0.677	1.089	0.971	Scandinavian Journal of Urology & Nephrology

Transplantation (under Surgery)
Am J Transplantation					6.843	6.423
Transplantation					3.972	3.641
Transpl Int						2.300
Clin Transplant						1.923
Transpl Proceedings						1.027

UROLOGY (few examples)
J Sex Med						6.199
Eur Urol						5.634
J Urology						4.053
Prostate						3.674

NUTRITION
Am J Clin Nutr	5.02	5.70	5.43	5.853	6.562	6.603	http://www.ajcn.org/
Obesity Research à* [changed to]				3.972	3.491	4.953
à Obesity (Springfield)						1.520
INT J OBESITY				4.482	4.055	3.560
J Nutr				3.689	4.009	3.771	Journal of Nutrition
Current Opinion in Clin Nutr				3.319	3.676	2.930
Brit J Nutr				2.967	2.708	2.339
JADA	1.79			2.376	2.564	3.011	http://www2.adajournal.org/scripts/om.dll/serve?action=searchDB&searchDBfor=home&id=jada
Clin Nutr				2.296	2.474	2.878
Europ J Nutr				2.257	2.356	2.326
Nutrition					2.299	2.104
Pub Health Nutr				1.918	2.123	1.858	http://www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/cabi/phn?mode=direct

Diabetes, Bone, Endocrine
Diabetes				8.028	7.955	8.261
Diabetes Care				7.844	7.912	7.851
J Bone & Mineral Res					6.635	6.004

EPIDEMIOLOGY
Am J Epi	3.95	4.49	4.93	5.068	5.241	5.285	http://aje.oupjournals.org/
Epidem Review	1.50			4.772	8.300	5.429
Int J Epi	2.36		3.73	4.045	4.517	5.151	http://ije.oupjournals.org/
Epidemiology	3.35	4.22	3.84	4.043	4.339	5.283	Epidemiology
J Clin Epi	2.03			2.538	2.440	2.565	http://journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/JCE
Annals Epi	2.09	2.35		2.289	2.210	2.353	Annals Epi

CARDIOLOGY
Circulation	10.51	11.16	12.56	11.632	10.940	12.755	http://circ.ahajournals.org/
JACC	6.37	7.60		9.200	9.701	11.054	JACC
Circul Research				9.408	9.854	9.721
Europ Heart J				7.341	7.286	7.924
Heart					3.708	4.141
Am Heart J					3.514	3.649
Am J Cardiology					3.015	3.603

Hypertension
Hypertension	5.36	5.63	5.34	6.331	6.007	7.194	http://hyper.ahajournals.org/
J HTN	4.21			5.218	4.021	4.364	J HTN

GENERAL Medicine
NEJM	29.1	34.83	38.50	44.016	51.296	52.589	http://content.nejm.org/
Lancet	13.3		21.7	23.407	25.800	28.638	http://www.thelancet.com/
JAMA	17.6	21.46	24.80	23.332	23.175	25.547	http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Annals Int Med	11.1		13.11	13.254	14.780	15.516	http://www.annals.org/
British Med J					9.245	9.727
Archives Int Med	6.7			8.016	7.920	8.391	http://archinte.ama-assn.org/
J Int Med					4.730	4.901
Am J Med						4.907
Am J Med Sci						1.618

General SCIENCE
Science	23.3		31.1	30.927	30.028	26.372	http://intl.sciencemag.org/
Nature	27.9		32.1	29.273	26.681	28.751	http://www.nature.com/
Nature Medicine				28.878	28.588	26.382
JCI	14.1			15.053	15.757	16.915	http://www.jci.org/
JCB				10.571	10.152	9.598	Journal of Cell Biology
PNAS				10.231	9.643	9.598	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
FASEB J				7.064	6.721	6.791
JBC				5.854	5.808	5.581	Journal of Biological Chemistry

Others
EXPERT OPIN INV DRUG						3,667	EXPERT OPINION ON INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS
Med Hypotheses	0.75			0.920	1.299	1.276
Pediatrics					5.012	4.473