title: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
text: # Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  
  The Journal of the American Society of Nephrology is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering nephrology. It was established in 1966 and is published by the American Society of Nephrology. The editor-in-chief is Josephine P. Briggs. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 10.121, ranking it first in the field of nephrology.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following databases:
  
  * CINAHL
  * Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
  * MEDLINE
  * Science Citation Index
  * Scopus
  