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• http://www.nature.com/nrneph
• Editor: Robert W. Schrier, MD
• Volume 5: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 1759-5061
• EISSN: 1759-507X
• Impact factor : 5.594*
• Impact ranking: 4/57 in Urology and Nephrology*
• Date Established: November 2005*
• Published on behalf of: An official publication of the International Society of Nephrology

Aims and Scope:
Nature Reviews Nephrology is a peer-reviewed journal for nephrologists and affiliated health-care professionals. The journal delivers timely interpretations of key scientific developments in nephrology and related areas of study.

Nature Reviews Nephrology is published monthly in print and online and includes commissioned news, commentary and opinion pieces, comprehensive reviews, and in-depth case studies. Articles are subject to rigorous peer-review and/or review by in-house editors.

Topics covered include all areas concerned with prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of the kidney in adults and children, including hypertension, infection, inflammation, dialysis, chronic uremia, renal failure, transplantation, applied physiology, epidemiology, pathology, immunology, cancer, and genetics.

Readership:
Academics, clinicians, researchers (students, post-doctoral researchers and senior scientists) and other health-care professionals interested in adult and pediatric disorders of the kidney, including specialists in general internal medicine, as well as commercial and government organizations involved in drug development and clinical trials.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to November 2005.
• A site license provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only. Archive content not included in the license agreement is available to purchase.
• Indexed in CAB Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE, Excerpta Medica, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, ISI web of knowledge (Science Citation Index Expanded) and PubMed.

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009). Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology will continue to receive impact factors until June 2012. Nature Reviews Nephrology will receive its first impact factor in June 2011; the values will be 'unified' for publication in 2011 and 2012.