Nephrology
Dialysis
Transplantation
(NDT) (https://academic.oup.com/ndt)
Nephrology
Dialysis
Transplantation (NDT) is one of the official
publications of the ERA-EDTA. The NDT Editor-in-Chief is
Professor Denis Fouque, Lyon, France. Nephrology
Dialysis
Transplantation: an international basic science
and clinical renal journal (NDT) is the leading nephrology
journal in Europe and renowned worldwide, devoted to original
clinical and laboratory research in nephrology, dialysis and
transplantation. The Editorial Board counts 80 internationally
renowned experts in nephrology. All research articles have
undergone peer review.
NDT received 2344 submissions
(1985 original and 359 revised) in 2019. The final acceptance rate
was 12%. The average time from submission to first editorial
decision was 15 days. The time from acceptance to online
publication was 5-6 weeks. Articles
published
in NDT were downloaded over
4,100,000 times in 2019. The 2018 Impact Factor was 4.198. The mean Altmetrics score was 21.
NDT publishes original articles (on
basic research, clinical research, dialysis, transplantation),
special reports, invited reviews and editorials, and an
educational section called ‘NDT Digest’ summarising an
important renal topic in one educational page for renal fellows.
Authors are now also allowed to submit a ‘research letter’
to NDT. All figures of invited papers
are redesigned by a medical illustrator before publication.
Authors can submit high-impact articles as fast track,
which are then prioritised for publication. Submissions to NDT might
be
rejected at triage but authors can be asked to transfer their
paper to CKJ (Clinical Kidney Journal –
EIC: Professor Alberto Ortiz).
We
offer our reviewers the possibility to get recognition for their
reviews via Publons. We also encourage our authors to register for
and submit their ORCID IDs alongside their papers. By registering
for an ORCID ID, authors can be sure that their work will be
properly attributed and referenced, and made easily discoverable.
These ORCID IDs are then added to our proofs.
NDT is widely promoted on
social media (Facebook, NDT app, Linkedin, Twitter,
Instagram). We add Twitter handles to NDT submissions
because sharing a paper via Twitter results in a higher Altmetrics
score (the amount of attention an article has received online, in
social media, and from news sites).
Each month, ‘Editor’s Choice’ articles are published on our
homepage, a selection of NDT articles is promoted in the
ERA-EDTA newsletter, and important NDT articles are selected for
press releases and blog posts. Each week we select the most
impactful article that we then promote as ‘Article of the Week’.
The NDT Editorial Board members
weekly receive an overview of the most recent online NDT publications
and of the most recently accepted NDT papers. To drive
circulation, the editors are invited to promote/cite these papers
as much as possible. Each year, the NDT associate editors summarize
the top 2017, 2018, 2019… publications (in their area of
expertise) in an editorial comment. This will attract readers and
potentially lead to renewed interest and citations of these
papers.
NDT also hosts videos on the journal’s homepage. Interesting papers are regularly selected for an accompanying video (using Panopto software), which are then together widely promoted.
In 2019, the cardio-renal collection continued (a virtual journal including cardio-renal medicine articles from NDT, CKJ and the European Society of Cardiology journals published by OUP). Important marketing initiatives in 2019 included: 'Best of 2018' (a collection of the most downloaded, most cited, and highest-Altmetric scoring NDT articles published in 2018), the World Kidney Day article collection, highly cited content / impact factor campaign, cardio-renal collection promotion, promotion of Publons, videos, and the ERA-EDTA journals app, conferences: ERA-EDTA Congress, ASN Kidney Week.