About the Journal of Nephrology Advances

The journal is organized around the range of kidney research rather than around one preferred kind of evidence. It publishes the full set of contributions the field actually produces: mechanistic and experimental studies, clinical trials and cohorts, descriptive and observational work, replication and validation studies, diagnostic and methodological research, evidence synthesis, and analyses of how kidney care is organized and delivered.

That breadth is a scientific position, not a convenience. Work that establishes how a measurement behaves, or how a service performs, carries the same weight in a field built on measurement and delivery as work that establishes a mechanism. Scope eligibility rests on the substantive nephrology question; methodological rigor and reporting quality are assessed separately, and both are assessed. The subjects the journal covers, and the test it applies at the boundary of the field, are set out on the Aims and Scope page.

The primary readership is people who work on the kidney: nephrologists and trainees in adult and pediatric practice, dialysis and transplant teams, renal scientists and pharmacologists, pathologists and radiologists reporting kidney specimens and images, and the methodologists, epidemiologists and health services researchers who work with kidney data.

Kidney disease also reaches well beyond nephrology, so the journal is written to be usable by clinicians in cardiology, endocrinology, critical care, obstetrics and primary care whose patients have kidney disease, and by the patients, carers and policy readers that open access puts within reach of the same article.

Editorial responsibility rests with the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial board, who provide scholarly stewardship by overseeing peer review and upholding publication ethics. Editors recuse themselves from decisions on their own submissions; those manuscripts are handled independently. Every listed member, with their research focus and identifiers, appears on the Editorial Board page.

All submissions undergo initial editorial screening. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s scope and minimum requirements proceed to independent peer review. Single-blind by default; double-blind review is available on request. Manuscripts that proceed to external peer review are normally evaluated by at least two independent subject-matter experts.

Editorial decisions are based on scope, scientific quality, methodological rigor, ethical compliance, reporting quality, and relevance to the journal. Decisions remain independent of fees, services, memberships and roles. The journal’s authorship, ethics, competing-interest, data and corrections rules are published on the Editorial Policies page.

Articles are published open access and are free to read for everyone. Authors retain copyright, and articles carry a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, so anyone may read, redistribute, translate and build on the work as long as the original is credited.

Publication is funded by an article processing charge of USD 1,599, charged after acceptance. The charge covers editorial handling, production, DOI registration and permanent open access. It is separate from the editorial process: payment, membership, an editorial role and the use of any optional service have no bearing on peer review or on the decision. Terms, and the editorial office contact for fee-relief inquiries, are on the Article Processing Charges page.

Title

Journal of Nephrology Advances

Short code

JNA

ISSN

2574-4488

Publisher

Open Access Pub

Publishing since

2015

Access

Open access; every article is free to read

License

CC BY 4.0, with copyright retained by the authors

Identifiers

Crossref DOI registration under the 10.14302 prefix

Article processing charge

USD 1,599, charged after acceptance

What the journal can evidence about discovery services and digital preservation is set out on the Indexing page. The published record itself, issue by issue, is in the Archive.