Journals

Milestones in Nephrology: Treatment of Glomerular Diseases – Pioneering Clinical Trials

Celebrating ISN’s 60th anniversary, Kidney International’s “Milestones in Nephrology” series continues with a review of some of the original articles it has published on the treatment of glomerular disease, publications that helped make significant changes in patient management: Shorter term corticosteroids are equally effective as longer term in primary nephrotic syndrome in children (Yoshikawa N, Nakanishi K, Sako...

March 3, 2020Journals, NewsRead more...

Milestones in Nephrology: Systemic autoimmune diseases and the kidney

To celebrate ISNs 60th anniversary, Kidney International’s “Milestones in Nephrology” series continues with a review of some of the original articles it has published on the effects of systemic autoimmune diseases on the kidney. These articles have characterized the pathology and clinical course of these diseases and enabled the nephrology community to make informed decisions in...

February 6, 2020Journals, NewsRead more...

Pathophysiology of the glomerulus: KI tells the story

To celebrate ISN’s 60th anniversary throughout 2020, Kidney International’s “Milestones in Nephrology” series launches with a review of the development in understanding of the pathophysiology of the glomerulus, highlighting several original articles published in KI: The glomerular signature in patients with hematuria (Kenneth F. Fairley and Douglas F. Birch, 1982); The permselectivity of the glomerular capillary wall (Ramsay L.S....

January 13, 2020Journals, NewsRead more...

August in KI: Take time out for reading

The editors of Kidney International (KI) would like to share a selection of articles from the August edition of the publication. Articles focus on a broad range of topics from renal pathology practice globally, the genomic landscape of CAKUT, identifying geospatial “hotspots” of glomerular diseases, the disease-specific incident glomerulonephritis displays geographic clustering in under-serviced rural areas of...

July 25, 2019Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

ISN-ACT Global Trials Focus: CKD, dialysis and hypertension

This month, the first series of clinical trials curated by the ISN-Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) team will get us thinking about nephrology research and encourage more discussion about chronic kidney disease, dialysis and hypertension: from PD catheter exit site care, the effectiveness of Roxadustat, to the initial treatment of hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africans and...

July 12, 2019Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

June in KI: Take time out for reading

This month, we have lots of new educational material for you to delve into. From new in-depth reviews in Kidney International (KI) to June's KI editor’s picks.  Big science and big data in nephrology Over the next few months, Kidney International (KI) will feature in-depth reviews on big science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. This review, the first in this series, provides...

June 2, 2019Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

KI publishes paper on ESKD and Universal Health Coverage

Kidney International (KI) has published a paper, as a Supplement to its journal, focusing on increasing patient access to integrated end-stage kidney disease care (ESKD) and how this fits in with Universal Health Coverage . Authored by David Harris et al., the paper is entitled 'Increasing access to integrated ESKD care as part of Universal...

March 20, 2019Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

2018 KDIGO hepatitis C in CKD guideline now available!

An executive summary of the 2018 KDIGO hepatitis C in CKD guideline: Welcoming advances in evaluation and management is now available in Kidney International. Infection with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) has adverse liver, kidney, and cardiovascular consequences in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), including those on dialysis therapy and in those with a...

September 19, 2018Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

KI article shows the doubling incidence, prevalence and mortality of CKD

September's issue of Kidney international (KI) will feature an important article from Ziyad Al-Aly and colleagues, which uses Global Burden of Disease (GBD) data to show, in just one generation since 1990, an almost doubling of the incidence, prevalence and mortality of chronic kidney disease (CKD), and a more than 60% increase in disability-adjusted...

August 3, 2018Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

KI and KI Supplements impact factor 2017 now released

The 2017 impact factors have now been published. Find out more about how our publications have been rated! Kidney International’s (KI) 2017 Impact Factor has increased to 8.429 (a small increase over the 2016 IF of 8.395). Kidney International Supplements 2017 Impact Factor is 3.357 (a decrease from the 2016 IF of 5.593). KI ranks now...

July 3, 2018Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

Check out the CKD Summit papers in The Lancet and KI Supplements

Following March's second Global Kidney Health Summit in the United Arab Emirates, the outputs from this meeting are currently being written for publication. In the meantime, here is what came out the first Global Kidney Health Summit held in Canada in 2016. During the first ISN Global Kidney Health Summit, a selected group of 85 international key...

June 25, 2018Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

Meet Kidney International’s latest Editor in Chief

We sat down with Pierre Ronco to discover what lies ahead for one of nephrology’s leading journals and hear about his plans to respond to the challenges of publishing and education within the field. What do you enjoy the most about heading such a high-ranking journal? Pierre Ronco: ‘It is a privilege and a huge responsibility. Fortunately,...

June 21, 2018Journals, NewsRead more...

KI launches ‘Brief reports’

The purpose of the Brief Report format is to publish concise but complete reports that present high-quality findings of exceptional interest, novelty, and broad significance for the readers of Kidney International. Manuscript considered as a potential Brief Report by the Editors will be sent to referees with a request of rapid review. If the manuscript...

March 20, 2018Journals, NewsRead more...

Congratulations to KI Reports!

We are excited to announce that Kidney International (KI) Reports has now been fully accepted and is live in PubMed Central (PMC). PMC indexed back to Volume 1, Issue 1 and there are 177 article records at present. We will feed new articles as they are published directly to PMC for indexing. KI Reports article records can...

January 2, 2018Journals, NewsRead more...

Introducing the ISN Ethical Dialysis Taskforce

As part of the end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) focus, the ISN Ethical Dialysis Taskforce will publish reviews and position statements on ethical dialysis over the next few years. We already developed a first series of papers on ethical dialysis published in The Lancet. This will be relevant to emerging and developed countries. As a global society with...

December 14, 2017Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

Challenges of pediatric acute kidney injury in low- and middle-income countries

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an increasingly significant yet underdiagnosed problem in pediatric care. In this latest Lancet update, colleagues from the International Pediatric Nephrology Association delve into international efforts to address this inequity, and what’s required from the World Health Organization and nephrology community to fulfil the 0by25 mission of zero preventable deaths from...

December 14, 2017Initiatives, Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

KI Reports: Heat stress and kidney health

One of this month’s most downloaded reports from Kidney International (KI) Reports is contributed by Fabiana Nerbass, winner of the ISN-H4KH New Investigator grant. This publication was made possible with valuable support from the ISN-H4KH New Investigator grant in partnership with Danone Nutricia. Fabiana Nerbass was awarded the funding in 2015.  Her research on “Occupational Heat Stress...

December 5, 2017Grants, Initiatives, Journals, News, ResearchRead more...

Learning lessons from Hong Kong’s ‘PD First Policy’

Between 2.3 and 7.1 million people die annually from End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD) due to a lack of access to dialysis. As a high-income country with expertise in peritoneal dialysis (PD), Hong Kong has a lot of practical experience to offer its neighboring low- and middle-income countries in tackling this growing issue. I highlighted the...

October 5, 2017Advocacy, Journals, NewsRead more...

Read all your Kidney International journals on the new app

The Kidney International (KI) mobile app is now available to download for free on Apple and Google Play. The app includes access to all three ISN journals: KI, Supplements, and Reports. Tables of contents and article abstracts for the three journals are available for members to read as well as full-text articles for KI Reports...

September 25, 2017Journals, NewsRead more...

Renal trials in diabetes need a platform: time for a global approach?

This recent commentary featured in The Lancet Diabetes Endocrinal 2017 focuses on the need for coordinated efforts and a large international database of patients with diabetes and nephropathy. It refers to ISN and its Advancing Clinical Trials group and Clinical Trial Networks who could be instrumental in achieving this objective. Read more HERE.

August 22, 2017Clinical Research, Journals, News, ResearchRead more...