OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Clinical Kidney Journal is 31. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Prolonged normothermic perfusion: a promising approach to kidney transplantation	158
A puzzling renal Fanconi syndrome	95
Donor-derived membranous nephropathy	80
Correction to: Accelerated versus watchful waiting strategy of kidney replacement therapy for acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials	71
But how green is it actually? Calculating the environmental footprint of kidney care environmental optimizations within haemodialysis	64
Cerebral blood flow following successful living kidney transplantation: the VINTAGE study	55
Associations between depressive symptoms and disease progression in older patients with chronic kidney disease: results of the EQUAL study	52
Clinically meaningful eGFR slope as a surrogate endpoint differs across CKD stages and slope evaluation periods: the CKD-JAC study	52
Non-invasive assessment of IgA nephropathy severity with [18F]AlF-NOTA-FAPI-04 PET/CT imaging	49
Robot-assisted kidney transplantation: an update	48
Plant-based diets for CKD patients: fascinating, trendy, but feasible? A green nephrology perspective	45
Efficacy and safety of telitacicept, a BLyS/APRIL dual inhibitor, in the treatment of IgA nephropathy: a retrospective case–control study	44
Obinutuzumab treatment for membranous nephropathy: effectiveness and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic	43
Standardization of serum creatinine is essential for accurate use of unbiased estimated GFR equations: evidence from three cohorts matched on renal function	41
Impact of the COVID pandemic on vascular access creation for haemodialysis in 16 Spanish haemodialysis centres	40
Risk factors for steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head in children with immune kidney disease	40
Microvascular perfusion, perfused boundary region and glycocalyx shedding in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: results from the GlycoScore III study	39
Interaction of general obesity and abdominal obesity with frailty in patients with chronic kidney disease: a nationally representative analysis	36
Biomarkers in clinical epidemiology studies	36
Toward acid- and heparin-free dialysis: the regional anticoagulation approach	36
Informal caregiver burden in dialysis care and how it relates to patients’ health-related quality of life and symptoms	36
Differentiating primary and secondary FSGS using non-invasive urine biomarkers	35
Causal relationships between immune cell phenotypes and primary glomerular diseases: genetic evidence from bidirectional Mendelian randomization study	35
Circulating miR-129-3p in combination with clinical factors predicts vascular calcification in hemodialysis patients	35
Bilateral nephrectomy in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease patients before or after renal transplantation: data from a retrospective cohort study	34

Correction to: Recognition of intraglomerular histological features with deep learning in protocol transplant biopsies and their association with kidney function and prognosis	33
Recent advances in pathogenetic concepts and disease modeling of IgA nephropathy	33
Association between frailty and bone health in early-stage chronic kidney disease: a study from the population-based CARTaGENE cohort	33
Ten tips on how to manage kidney health in migrants and refugees	33
Can exercise improve outcomes for frail haemodialysis patients?	33
Probability of chronic kidney disease and associated risk factors in Chinese adults: a cross-sectional study of 9 million Chinese adults in the Meinian Onehealth screening survey	31
Performance of the race-free CKD-EPI creatinine-based eGFR equation in a Danish cohort with measured GFR	31
The spectrum of diseases, genetic landscape and new mutation sites of hereditary cystic kidney disease	31