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The Indian Journal of Nephrology (IJN) is an open-access peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing high-quality articles in the field of laboratory and clinical nephrology. The journal is owned by the Indian Society of Nephrology and published by the Scientific Scholar.

Aims & Scope

The journal publishes articles covering all the aspects of laboratory and clinical nephrology. It includes original researches, reviews, editorials, technical notes, symposia proceedings, and Society news.

Audience

Our audience includes researchers from the field of laboratory and Clinical Nephrology.

Review Process

IJN has a highly rigorous peer-review process that makes sure that manuscripts are scientifically accurate, relevant, novel and important. Authors disclose all conflicts, affiliations and financial associations such that the published content is not biased.

Editorial Team

The editorial board comprises a panel of experts from various disciplines of medical and allied sciences to provide their expertise and guidance in maintaining the clarity of content and focus of the purpose for the journal.

About the Editor

Editor-in-Chief
Vivekanand Jha, MD, DM, FRCP, FAMS
Executive Director, George Institute for Global Health India
Chair of Global Kidney Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London
Conjoint Professor of Medicine, University of New South Wales Sydney
Immediate Past President (2019-2021),
International Society of Nephrology
Email: editor@indianjnephrol.org;
vjha@georgeinstitute.org.in

Facts About the Journal

It is a peer-reviewed international journal with a double-blind review process. Its frequency of publication is Bimonthly, what that means is, it publishes the article once it’s accepted after peer review.

Benefits

An article published in the journal can be viewed without a fee by readers all over the world. The author also gets to retain copyright to the article and the figures. This allows authors to extend their exposure in the world of medical research and get worldwide recognition for their work.

Abstracting and Indexing Information


The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following:
DOAJ, EMBASE/ Excerpta Medica, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Indian Science Abstracts, IndMed, MedInd, PubMed Central, Scimago Journal Ranking, SCOPUS, Web of Science

The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing’s Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, National Science Library, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data

  • Impact Factor® as reported in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics 2024): 0.8
  • Scopus CiteScore 2023 (as per SJR 2024): 1.4

PubMed Central
Emerging Sources Citation Index
SCOPUS
EMBASE
DOAJ

Journal Ethics

The Indian Journal of Nephrology is committed to meeting and upholding the standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit our Ethical Guidelines section

Plagiarism Policy

The journal uses plagiarism check software (iThenticate) on the Editor’s and Reviewer’s panel in the manuscript management system which is used to check and control Plagiarism for each article. Any manuscript, that is found to have plagiarism is rejected.

Archival Policy

We use PORTICO for our third-party repository for all articles published with us. All our articles are assigned a DOI number. We are members of https://crossref.org

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

Ahead of Print Policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Indian Journal of Nephrology has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Subscription Information

To subscribe to this journal, please log on to https://scientificscholar.com/buy-subscriptions.

Publisher

Scientific Scholar LLC (scientificscholar.com) is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports open access publishing models, Subscription and Society based journal models through its own in-house peer-review management system – EditorialAssist (journalmanagement.org). The head office of Scientific Scholar is in Rochester, NY, USA and has a subsidiary arm in India.

The mission of the Scientific Scholar is “Share, Learn and Improve”.