ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Kidney International (KI) is the official journal of the International Society of Nephrology.

Aims and scope of journal

Kidney International (KI) offers features with premier benefits for both readers and authors. Here you will find some of the most cited original articles in nephrology, sharply focused reviews, latest imaging techniques, controversial discussions and much more.

Kidney International devotes itself to renal research. It aims to inform the renal researcher and the practicing nephrologist on all aspects of renal research. These include:

• The Kidney Podcast featuring the latest in research and practice.
• The latest clinical studies on emerging developments in renal medicine.
• The highest level of original research studies in clinical and basic renal research.
• In each issue some of these articles will be highlighted by commentaries that aim to put these studies in the appropriate context. These will form a research tool for clinical and basic investigators.
• Editorials that highlight important issues in international nephrology
• Nephrology sans Frontieres - occasional short articles that discuss matters of local interest to nephrologists around the world, but which we feel need to be known by nephrologists world-wide
• Minireviews on hot topics and in depth reviews about major issues in renal research.
• Controversial discussions on renal therapeutics or diagnosis written by two opposing authorities
• State-of-the-Art teaching materials including The Renal Consults and clinico-pathological conferences where eminent clinicians discuss difficult or interesting cases illustrated by multiple pathology, imaging studies and charts
• Nephrology Images which are presentations of interesting images in renal pathology, radiology chosen for their illustrative nature or simply for their esthetic qualities.
• Issues of importance to the international renal community including the politics of funding; of organ transplantation, of adequacy of dialysis, of world-wide affordability of end stage renal care and many other topical issues.
• Journal Club are synopses that bring you the latest research highlights from across a wide spectrum of journals in fields relevant to renal research.

Impact Factor

2008 Impact Factor 6.418*

Rank:
3/57 Urology & Nephrology

*2008 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters, 2009)

Abstracted/indexed in

BIOSIS
Chemical Abstracts
EMBASE/Excerpta Medica
Index Medicus
Science Citation Index
Current Contents/Life Sciences
Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
SciSearch
Reference Update
CABS
Index Medicus/Medline
Biological Abstracts
Global Health
MDX Health Digest
EBSCO
Adonis
PASCAL

ISSN and eISSN

The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Kidney International is 0085-2538
and the electronic international standard serial number (eISSN) is 1523-1755.

Editors

Editor

Qais Al-Awqati, New York

Deputy Editor

Juan A. Oliver, New York

Associate Editors

Marc E. De Broe, Antwerp
Jai Radhakrishnan, New York
Robert L. Safirstein, Little Rock
Detlef Schlöndorff, New York
Lynda Szczech, Durham

Founding Editor

Roscoe R. Robinson, Nashville

Editors Emeritus

Saulo Klahr, St. Louis, 1997-2005
Thomas E. Andreoli, Little Rock, 1984-1997

The Renal Consult Editors

Jai Radhakrishnan, New York
Glen Markowitz, New York
Ajay K. Singh, Boston

ABC of Epidemiology Editor

Carmine Zoccali, Reggio Calabria

Editorial Board

Dwomoa Adu, Birmingham
Rajiv Agarwal, Indianapolis
Tadao Akizawa, Tokyo
Charles E. Alpers, Seattle
Sharon Andreoli, Indianapolis
Istvan Arany, Little Rock
M. Amin Arnaout, Charlestown
Ellis D. Avner, Milwaukee
Morrell M. Avram, Brooklyn
George L. Bakris, Chicago
Laurent Baud, Paris
P. Darwin Bell, Charleston
Ezequiel Bellorin-Font, Caracas
Thomas Benzing, Freiburg
Tomas Berl, Denver
John F. Bertram, Clayton
Daniel G. Bichet, Montreal
Joseph Bonventre, Boston
Andrew Bostom, Providence
Erwin Paul Bottinger, New York
Dimitrios Boumpas, Bethesda
Daniel Brennan, St. Louis
Matthew Breyer, Indianapolis
Nigel Brunskill, Leicester
David Bushinsky, Rochester, NY
Giovambattista Capasso, Napoli
Arlene Chapman, Atlanta
Russell W. Chesney, Memphis
Robert Chevalier, Charlottesville
Eric Cohen, Milwaukee
Ricardo Correa-Rotter, Mexico City
Fernando G. Cosio, Rochester
Vivette D. D'Agati, New York
Andrew Davenport, London
James Delmez, St. Louis
Olivier Devuyst, Brussels
Dick de Zeeuw, Groningen
Patrick C. D'Haese, Antwerp
Tilman B. Drüeke, Paris
Jean-Claude Dussaule, Paris
Jesus Egido, Madrid
Zoltan H. Endre, Christchurch
Ekrem Erek, Istanbul
Andrew P. Evan, Indianapolis
Pieter Evenepoel, Leuven
Ronald J. Falk, Chapel Hill
Jürgen Floege, Aachen
Agnes Fogo, Nashville
Albert Fournier, Amiens
Gérard Friedlander, Paris
Gerardo Gamba, Mexico City
Ali Gharavi, New York
Glenda C. Gobe, Brisbane
David S. Goldfarb, New York
Michael S. Goligorsky, Valhalla
William Goodman, Thousand Oaks
Timothy Goodship, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Per-Henrik Groop, Helsinki
Jean-Pierre Grünfeld, Paris
Youfei Guan, Nashville
Antonio Guasch, Atlanta
Mark Haas, Baltimore
Lee Hamm, New Orleans
Jonathan Himmelfarb, Portland, ME
Akira Hishida, Hamamatsu
Lawrence B. Holzman, Ann Arbor
Bernd Hoppe, Cologne
Walter Hörl, Vienna
Keith A. Hruska, St. Louis
Billy G. Hudson, Nashville
Jeremy Hughes, Edinburgh
Iekuni Ichikawa, Nashville
T. Alp Ikizler, Nashville
Enyu Imai, Osaka
Julie R. Ingelfinger, Boston
Joachim Jankowski, Berlin
J. Charles Jennette, Chapel Hill
Kirsten L. Johansen, San Francisco
Roberto Kalil, Iowa City
Cees Kallenberg, Groningen
Raghu Kalluri, Boston
Balakuntalam S. Kasinath, San Antonio
George A. Kaysen, Davis
William F. Keane, North Wales
Markus Ketteler, Coburg
Jack G. Kleinman, Milwaukee
Donald Kohan, Salt Lake City
Valentina Kon, Nashville
Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Tokyo
Christian Kurts, Bonn
Brigitte Lelongt, Paris
Moshe Levi, Denver
Julia Lewis, Nashville
Hirofumi Makino, Okayama
Johannes F. Mann, Munich
Pablo Massari, Cordoba, Argentina
Rajnish Mehrotra, Torrance
Jeffrey H. Miner, St. Louis
William E. Mitch, Houston
Bruce Molitoris, Indianapolis
Kiyoshi Mori, Kyoto
Gerhard A. Mueller, Goettingen
Peter Mundel, New York
Rama Natarajan, Duarte, CA
Karl Nath, Rochester, MN
Genevieve Nguyen, Paris
Peter Nickerson, Winnipeg
David Nikolic-Paterson, Clayton
Douglas Norman, Portland, OR
Mark D. Okusa, Charlottesville
Brian Pereira, Boston
Josef Pfeilschifter, Frankfurt
Didier Portilla, Little Rock
S. Russ Price, Atlanta
Richard J. Quigg, Chicago
Hamid Rabb, Baltimore
Leopold Raij, Miami
Giuseppe Remuzzi, Bergamo
Troels Ring, Aalborg
Eberhard Ritz, Heidelberg
Claudio Ronco, Vicenza
Pierre Ronco, Paris
Brad H. Rovin, Columbus
David J. Salant, Boston
Paul W. Sanders, Birmingham
Sei Sasaki, Tokyo
John Savill, Edinburgh
F. Paolo Schena, Bari
Steve Schwab, Augusta
George J. Schwartz, Rochester
John Sedor, Cleveland
Catherine M. Shanahan, Cambridge
Stuart Shankland, Seattle
Joseph I. Shapiro, Toledo
Frank Strutz, Gottingen
Manikkam Suthanthiran, New York
Christie P. Thomas, Iowa City
Nicholas Topley, Cardiff
Vicente Torres, Rochester, MN
Karl Tryggvason, Stockholm
Antonios H. Tzamaloukas, Albuquerque
Julian K. Unger, Berlin
Pablo Antonio Ureña Torres, Aubervilliers
Raymond Vanholder, Ghent
Nosratola D. Vaziri, Orange
Pierre Verroust, Paris
Haiyan Wang, Beijing
Christoph Wanner, Wuerzberg
David Warnock, Birmingham
Christopher Wilcox, Washington, DC
Gunter Wolf, Jena
Keng-Thye Woo, Singapore
Adrian Woolf, London
Chih-Wei Yang, Taipei
Richard Zager, Seattle
X. J. Joseph Zhou, Dallas
Fuad Ziyadeh, Beirut
Carmine Zoccali, Reggio Cal