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Kidney International — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Kidney International is 21.8 (quartile not confirmed; subscription or hybrid).
- Impact Factor
- 21.8 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Urology & Nephrology
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- Elsevier (International Society of Nephrology)
- Open access
- subscription or hybrid
- Abbreviations
- KI
- IF source
- sciencedirect.com
Position within the field
Ranked 3 of the 41 journals in Urology & Nephrology on this site (top 10%).
Urology & Nephrology journals with a similar Impact Factor
- European Urology IF 29.1
- Nature Reviews Urology IF 13.6
- Journal of the American Society of Nephrology IF 10.1
- American Journal of Kidney Diseases IF 9.4
- European Urology Oncology IF 8.5
- Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation IF 8.3
About this value
Kidney International is abbreviated KI. The Journal Impact Factor of Kidney International (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 21.8. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Urology & Nephrology.