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Nephron is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 1660-8151Verify ISSN ↗2235-3186Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nephrology | 20 / 88 | 77th | Q1 |
| Urology | 29 / 123 | 76th | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 49 / 117 | 58th | Q2 |
| Physiology | 84 / 196 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 1964–2003), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Nephron is Q1 in Nephrology (rank 20 of 88), Q1 in Urology (rank 29 of 123) and Q2 in Physiology (medical) (rank 49 of 117), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nephron is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.760, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 106.
Nephron is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 1660-8151 and its online ISSN is 2235-3186.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nephron has an h-index of 118 and a 2-year mean of 1.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #30 of 87 Scopus journals in Nephrology.
Nephron published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 166. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.7%), Japan (19.1%) and China (10.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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