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Welcome to the World Journal of Nephrology

World Journal of Nephrology (WJN, World J Nephrol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJN accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJN are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJN is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of nephrology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJN include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

2025 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • Ying-Yong Zhao, MD, PhD, Professor, (E-mail: zyy@nwu.edu.cn) Faculty of Life Science & Medicine, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, Shaanxi Province, China
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJN is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Reference Citation Analysis, Scopus, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database. 
Journal Metrics
The WJN’s CiteScore for 2023 is 3.4 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Nephrology is 37/81.
ISSN
2220-6124 (online)
Editorial
Review
Minireviews
Samuel Wilding, Henry H L Wu, Nina Brown, Rajkumar Chinnadurai 
World J Nephrol 14(2):105166. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.105166
Retrospective Cohort Study
Brooke Stanicki, Dante A Puntiel, Benjamin Peticca, Nicolas Egan, Tomas M Prudencio, Samuel G Robinson, Sunil S Karhadkar 
World J Nephrol 14(2):101961. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.101961
Retrospective Study
Bob Weng, Marco Braaten, Jenna Lehn, Reid Morrissey, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, Peter Silberstein, Ali Bin Abdul Jabbar, Abraham Mathews, Abubakar Tauseef, Mohsin Mirza 
World J Nephrol 14(2):103923. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.103923
Jordan Sarver, Remington Farley, Shane Daugherty, Jordan Bilbrew, Joshua Palka 
World J Nephrol 14(2):104207. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.104207
Abdullah Naveed Muhammad, Faizan Ahmed, Sherif Eltawansy, Ahila Ali, Bazil Azeem, Muhammad Kashan, Zaima Afzaal, Mushood Ahmed, Kainat Aman, Aman Amanullah, Muhammad Naveed Uz Zafar, Pawel Lajczak, Ogechukwu Obi 
World J Nephrol 14(2):105815. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.105815
Clinical Trials Study
Observational Study
Prospective Study
Randomized Controlled Trial
Shakti S Sarangi, Shashank Kumar, Deepak P Bhirud, Mahendra Singh, Shiv C Navriya, Gautam Ram Choudhary, Arjun Singh Sandhu 
World J Nephrol 14(2):100092. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.100092
Case Report
Prathap Kumar Simhadri, Renish Contractor, Deepak Chandramohan, Matthew McGee, Udit Nangia, Mohammad Atari, Syed Bushra, Sanjana Kapoor, Ramya Krishna Velagapudi, Pradeep K Vaitla 
World J Nephrol 14(2):100530. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.100530
Ayse Sena Celik, Hacer Yosunkaya, Aysel Yayilkan Ozyilmaz, Kemal Bugra Memis, Sonay Aydin 
World J Nephrol 14(2):103027. Published online Jun 25, 2025. doi: 10.5527/wjn.v14.i2.103027
Letter to the Editor