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Nature Reviews Nephrology Template

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About the Nature Reviews Nephrology format

Nature Reviews Nephrology is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes, Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies, Dialysis and Renal Disease Management. Over its lifetime it has published 3,209 papers, which have received 176,218 citations.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (Nature)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Reviews Nephrology 12, 45–58 (2023).

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Publishes research inChronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes Renal Diseases and Glomerulopathies Dialysis and Renal Disease Management Renal and related cancers Acute Kidney Injury Research
ISSN1759-5061
Citation impact (2-yr)15.59
h-index216
i10-index1,140
Top institutions publishing hereKleijnen Systematic Reviews (United Kingdom)
Journal websitewww.nature.com
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Papers published in Nature Reviews Nephrology per year

252
2014
222
2015
191
2016
183
2017
142
2018
142
2019
146
2020
137
2021
138
2022
132
2023
120
2024
121
2025

Citation impact of Nature Reviews Nephrology by publication year

10.8K
2014
10.5K
2015
14.7K
2016
16.4K
2017
14.9K
2018
15.3K
2019
20.7K
2020
8.1K
2021
9.3K
2022
7K
2023
3.7K
2024
935
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Nature Reviews Nephrology

Acute kidney disease and renal recovery: consensus report of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative (ADQI) 16 Workgroup

on behalf of the Acute Disease Quality Initiative Workgroup 16., Lakhmir S. Chawla, Rinaldo Bellomo et al. · 27 Feb 2017

Consensus definitions have been reached for both acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) and these definitions are now routinely used in research and clinical practice. The KDIGO guideline defines AKI as an abrupt decrease in kidney function occurring over 7 days or less, whereas CKD is defined by the persistence of kidney…

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What reference style does Nature Reviews Nephrology use?
Nature Reviews Nephrology uses Superscript numbered (Nature) references, shown as superscript numerals in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. Nature Reviews Nephrology 12, 45–58 (2023).
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Nature Portfolio journal (Springer Nature). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Springer Nature.
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