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Journal of Renal Care
ISSN 1755-6678 · eISSN 1755-6686 · Wiley-Blackwell · ENGLAND
Journal of Renal Care: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.91; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,350; median 181 days to acceptance (81 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 10% (journal website); 50 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Renal Care is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Acute Kidney Injury Research, together about 49.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Nephrology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Renal Care (JORC), formally EDTNA/ERCA Journal, is the official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Nursing Association/European Renal Care Association (EDTNA/ERCA). The Journal of Renal Care is an international peer-reviewed journal for the multi-professional health care team caring for people with kidney disease and those who research this specialised area of health care. Kidney disease is a chronic illness with four basic treatments: haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis conservative management and transplantation, which includes emptive transplantation, living donor & cadavaric transplantation. The continuous world-wide increase of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) means that research and shared knowledge into the causes and treatment is vital to delay the progression of CKD and to improve treatments and the care given. The Journal of Renal Care is an important journal for all health-care professionals working in this and associated conditions, such as diabetes and cardio-vascular disease amongst others. It covers the trajectory of the disease from the first diagnosis to palliative care and includes acute renal injury. The Journal of Renal Care accepts that kidney disease affects not only the patients but also their families and significant others and provides a forum for both the psycho-social and physiological aspects of the disease. The focus of the Journal of Renal Care is to integrate theory and practice in the care of people with CKD and their families. It seeks to report research into CKD and advance evidence based practice. The Journal of Renal Care publishes original research articles, literature reviews, case reports, case studies, policy reports, letters to the Editor, book reviews, and analyses and descriptions of professional practice initiatives in CKD and associated topics. It seeks to promote content that is relevant to and reflective of the growing diversity of the renal community. The journal also supports the publication of local issues, when these are of international interest. Journal of Renal Care aims to: Provide a forum for discussion and information exchange of issues relevant to CKD, its treatment and care To promote knowledge about CKD and its relationship to other illnesses through increased communications across the whole spectrum of health care. Support research initiatives and publish results. Support the integration of theory and practice across the multi-professional health spectrum. P
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Nursing-Advanced and Specialized Nursing
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 5, Australia 3, Italy 2, Türkiye 2, Denmark 2 (17 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Dialysis and Renal Disease ManagementMedicine33.9%
- Chronic Kidney Disease and DiabetesMedicine9.7%
- Acute Kidney Injury ResearchMedicine5.5%
- Renal Transplantation Outcomes and TreatmentsMedicine5.2%
- Central Venous Catheters and HemodialysisHealth Professions5.2%
- Organ Donation and TransplantationMedicine5.2%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine3.8%
- Parathyroid Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine3.2%
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 | Nursing | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Nursing | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Nursing | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Urology & Nephrology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 1.91LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.7LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 334OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.31OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 15%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 59.04%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 37LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 41Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 109,313Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,065 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 44 | 25 | 9 |
| 2025 | 50 | 33 | 63 |
| 2024 | 39 | 27 | 102 |
| 2023 | 34 | 26 | 174 |
| 2022 | 47 | 23 | 241 |
| 2021 | 50 | 20 | 476 |
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 Crossref · to
181 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 104 days – 220 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (81 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 195 days
- Sample
- 81 articles with submission and acceptance dates (94 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 10%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 7 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 167 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,350 / EUR 2,850 / GBP 2,220 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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 prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Not considered
- Case reports; Research protocols; Pre-clinical/animal studies; preprints
Article types accepted4, with length limits
- auditAudit Reports that evaluates practice or compares alternative practices, 3500 words Yes/ StructuredLength not stated
- literature reviewsearch- qualitative / mixed methods and literature reviews have a word limit of maximum 5000 words (main text excluding abstract and list of references). Empimain text ≤ 5,000 words
- quality improvementQuality Improvement Reports of quality improvement projects 3500 Yes/ StructuredLength not stated
- review articlemmittee or Human Subjects Review board. Review Article Critical reviews of the literature, including systematic reviews and meta-analyses 5000 words Yes/ Struct…main text ≤ 5,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, License & copyright, Open access, Plagiarism, Preprints
- Authorship
ORCID required. Model summary
ORCID This journal requires ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright Assignment
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Open Access is available to authors of primary research articles who wish to make their article available to non-subscribers on publication, or whose funding agency requires grantees to archive the final version of their article. With open access, the author, the author's funding agency, or the author's institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers upon pub…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Plagiarism screening on submission. Model summary
The Journal of Renal Care employs a plagiarism detection system. By submitting your manuscript to this journal you accept that your manuscript may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
No preprints considered for review. Model summary
Authors should kindly note that submissions implies that the content has not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere except as a brief abstract in the proceedings of a scientific meeting or symposium. Therefore, the Journal of Renal Care will not consider for review submissions previously available as preprints.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1755-6678
- Electronic ISSN
- 1755-6686
- Society / sponsor
- European Dialysis and Transplant Nursing Association/European Renal Care Association
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Renal Care
What CAS zone is Journal of Renal Care in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Renal Care is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Nursing / Urology & Nephrology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Renal Care?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.91; CiteScore 3.3, h-index 42.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Renal Care?
Based on the dates recorded on 81 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 181 days (interquartile range 104–220 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 10% (2025). 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 Journal of Renal Care?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words. 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 Journal of Renal Care based?
Of the 17 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (5), Australia (3) and Italy (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Renal Care?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Renal Care is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Renal Care open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Renal Care is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,350.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .