Scientific and Practical Peer-Reviewed Journal

The specialised scientific and practical Nephrology (Saint-Petersburg) Journal was first published in 1997, becoming the first printed periodic publication in Russia in which issues on nephrology and related disciplines are comprehensively covered. Since 2001, the Journal has been included in the Russian State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles. List of leading peer-reviewed scientific Journals and publications in which the main results of dissertations for the academic degrees of Doctor and Candidate of Science are to be published.

Initially, and up until 2012, the Journal was published quarterly. Since 2013 Journal is published bimonthly.

The Nephrology (Saint-Petersburg) Journal publishes manuscripts on topical issues of clinical and experimental nephrology and related areas (physiology and pathology of water saline homeostasis, kidney conditions in other diseases, etc.). In addition, each issue presents a section “Journal within a Journal”, which publishes reports on topical problems of urology and geriatric nephrology.

Beginning with the first issue, the works of leading foreign and domestic nephrologists have been regularly published on the Journal’s pages. Since devoted to a development strategy for nephrological science and describing the main nephrological research directions, these works are, as a rule, written in the comprehensive manner. On the pages of the Journal the notable works of B.M. Brenner, S. Massry, A. Cohen, J. Shanar, E. Ritz and many other outstanding scientists in the field including leading Russian scientists have appeared. In 2012 (the first issue, volume 16), an article entitled Nephrology and Fundamental Science by Academician Prof. Yu.V. Natochin was published, where the author set out the position of nephrology in the areas of medical science.

As far as the nephrology is an integrative science the current content of the Journal includes questions on molecular biology, genetics, physiology, general pathology, cardiology, endocrinology, immunology, haematology, transplantation medicine, urology, paediatrics and geriatrics.

In the framework of education the Journal issues national and international recommendations and up-dated guidelines on nephrology, as well as reviews and lectures on the most relevant scientific and practical topics. Various scientific and practical conferences take place under the auspices of the Journal (listed on the sponsorship page). Since 2014, the Nephrology (Saint-Petersburg) Journal has become the official publication of the Association of Nephrologists of Russia, which in turn represents the nephrological community in the National Medical Chamber.

Initially, and up until 2012, the Journal was published quarterly. Since 2013 Journal – bimonthly, since 2022 – quarterly again.