The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) had the foresight to recognize the need for a new nephrology journal to complement its two existing scientific journals, JASN and CJASN, established in 1990 and 2006, respectively. I was honored to be selected as the inaugural editor-in-chief of Kidney360, the first online-only, open-access nephrology journal sponsored by the ASN. My editorship started in May 2019. After assembling the editorial team, our submission website went live in October 2019, and the first monthly issue was published in January 2020. This paper summarizes the highlights of our accomplishments in year 1 and outlines our future plans.
The success of a medical journal is truly a group effort. I am extremely grateful to our entire, outstanding, editorial team, which has worked tirelessly to ensure a rigorous and timely peer review of all manuscripts submitted to Kidney360. Our team includes two deputy editors, Luis Juncos and Mark Perazella; 13 associate editors, including Nisha Bansal, Arlene Chapman, Steven Coca, Deidra Crews, Steven Crowley, Arjang Djamali, Jennifer Flythe, Reiko Inagi, Shuta Ishibe, Timmy Lee, Samir Parikh, Michael Romero, and Prabhleen Singh; two statistical editors, Heather Philbrook and Rebecca Scherzer; and our Patient Voice Ambassador, Patrick Gee. We greatly benefit from a large and enthusiastic cohort of international kidney experts who contribute to an extensive pool of reviewers. I would also like to acknowledge our outstanding cohort of visual abstract editors, including Joel Topf, Eric Au, Pablo Garcia, Edgar Lerma, Vicki Sandys, and Dominique Tomacruz. Finally, we are fortunate to have the expert assistance of Shari Leventhal, our executive editor, and Virginia Ramsey, our managing editor, in processing and editing the manuscripts.
During the first year since our submission website went live (October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020), we received a total of 549 submissions from …
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