As Kidney International Reports (KI Reports; www.kireports.org) approaches our third year of publication in May 2020, we stand proud of the exponential growth the journal has experienced in such a short amount of time.
In 3 years, KI Reports has published more than 700 articles, which represents a 20% annual increase in both submissions and published articles, and a truly global makeup of published papers. More than half of our authors are located outside the United States and Western Europe, areas that remain the traditional powerhouses of medical research. The international reach of our publications is coupled by a rapid increase in readership: articles in KI Reports are now being read more than 70,000 times every month. This consistent growth on all fronts—in submissions, published articles, and readership—underscores the success of the open access publication model in making high-quality science on kidney disease accessible to everyone.
KI Reports is indexed in PubMed Central, Scopus, and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and is also included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). Our citescore continues to rise quickly; we have one of the highest scores for an open access journal in nephrology.
The editorial team is continuing to innovate the format and content of KI Reports to better serve our authors and readers. In addition to increasing the frequency of issues to monthly, we encourage authors to provide graphical abstracts and offer rapid online publication of manuscripts within 1 week of acceptance.
Members of the International Society of Nephrology, who have always received a discount on publication costs, will be pleased to know that KI Reports is now the official home of the abstracts presented at the annual World Congress of Nephrology (WCN). The abstracts are published in special supplemental issues every year, available on www.kireports.org, which provides a permanent searchable repository for those abstracts.
You can find us on social media—Twitter (@KIReports), Facebook (“like” the ISN), and LinkedIn—in addition to accessing all of our content on the KI Journals App, which can be downloaded onto iOS (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kidney-international-journals/id1266307577?mt=8) and Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.elsevier.stmj.jat.newsstand.isn) mobile devices and tablets.
We continue to bring innovations to the journal as we strive to meet the evolving needs of the kidney research community. We are indebted to our authors, who entrust us with their research, our readers, who look to us as the preferred journal for clinical research findings in nephrology, and our peer reviewers, who provide invaluable suggestions to the authors for improving their manuscripts. As we continue to grow, we look forward to hearing from you with questions and suggestions. If you have ideas for improving KI Reports, please contact us at kireports.editor@cumc.columbia.edu.
Disclosure
All the authors declared no competing interests.