Coverage includes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of the kidney in the adult and child, including hypertension, infection/inflammation, dialysis/chronic uremia, renal failure, transplantation, applied physiology, epidemiology, pathology, immunology, cancer, and genetics.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 42.439, ranking it 1st out of 90 journals in the category "Urology & Nephrology".[8]