Journal profile · Medicine-Nephrology
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
ISSN 2054-3581 · SAGE · United States
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.6 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; median 112 days to acceptance (96 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 50.9% (journal website); 94 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease is published by SAGE and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Dialysis and Renal Disease Management, Chronic Kidney Disease and Diabetes and Renal Transplantation Outcomes and Treatments, together about 47.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Nephrology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal HighlightsContact us hereIndexed In: PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)International scope and ...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Nephrology
Editor-in-chief Sunny HartwigPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 74, United States 8, United Kingdom 4, Australia 2, Germany 1 (90 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Dialysis and Renal Disease ManagementMedicine22.9%
- Chronic Kidney Disease and DiabetesMedicine14.1%
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and TreatmentsMedicine10.5%
- Acute Kidney Injury ResearchMedicine10.3%
- Organ Donation and TransplantationMedicine6.5%
- Renal Diseases and GlomerulopathiesMedicine4.2%
- Central Venous Catheters and HemodialysisHealth Professions3%
- Parathyroid Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine2.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.62LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.72LetPub ·
- h-index
- 47OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 329OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.74OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.6%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 83LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 961 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 64 | 64 | 9 |
| 2025 | 94 | 94 | 121 |
| 2024 | 74 | 74 | 273 |
| 2023 | 101 | 101 | 520 |
| 2022 | 93 | 93 | 730 |
| 2021 | 94 | 94 | 1,076 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
112 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 72 days – 146 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 60 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 180 days
- Sample
- 96 articles with submission and acceptance dates (174 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 50.9%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 6 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 56 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,100 / USD 1,743 / USD 1,700 / USD 1,411 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- USD 2,100
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted28
- brief communicationCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- case reportCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- clinical research protocolClinical Research ProtocolLength not stated
- commentaryCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- conference abstractsConference AbstractsLength not stated
- conference reportCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- debateDebateLength not stated
- editorialCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- five things to know aboutFive Things to Know AboutLength not stated
- fundamental research (basic) protocolFundamental Research (Basic) ProtocolLength not stated
- guideline commentariesGuideline CommentariesLength not stated
- guidelinesGuidelinesLength not stated
- letterCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- letter to the editorCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- letters to the editorCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- narrative reviewCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- opinionCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- opinion pieceOpinion PieceLength not stated
- original clinical research mixed methodOriginal Clinical Research Mixed MethodLength not stated
- original clinical research qualitativeOriginal Clinical Research QualitativeLength not stated
- original clinical research quantitativeOriginal Clinical Research QuantitativeLength not stated
- original fundamental research (basic)Original Fundamental Research (Basic)Length not stated
- program reportProgram ReportLength not stated
- protocolCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- rapid communicationCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- research letterResearch LetterLength not stated
- viewpointCanadian Journal of Kidney Health & Disease welcomes submissions of any of the following manuscript types. Please click on the manuscript type to find a formatt…Length not stated
- visual essayVisual EssayLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Member of COPE Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of pub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Single anonymized review Model summary
Portable Peer Review Portable review. Many manuscripts undergo multiple rounds of submission and rejection in different journals during the peer review process before publication. Added to the substantive time commitment required to perform peer review is the time authors must wait for reviews, at times only to have the paper rejected. By expediting the review process, portable review salvages the…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2054-3581
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
What CAS zone is Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Urology & Nephrology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.6; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.7, h-index 47.
How long does peer review take at Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease?
Based on the dates recorded on 96 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 112 days (interquartile range 72–146 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 50.9%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 4; Reference style: Vancouver. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease based?
Of the 90 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Canada (74), United States (8) and United Kingdom (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease open access, and what is the APC?
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .