| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Magnesium Replacement Improves the Metabolic Profile in Obese and Pre-Diabetic Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Chronic Kidney Disease: A 3-Month, Randomised, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study | Kidney and Blood Pressure Research | 2017 | 19,694 |
| 2 | Prediction of Creatinine Clearance from Serum Creatinine | Nephron | 1976 | 13,055 |
| 3 | Adverse Renal Effects of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Narrative Review | American Journal of Nephrology | 2017 | 10,656 |
| 4 | Should We STOP Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors/Angiotensin Receptor Blockers in Advanced Kidney Disease? | Nephron | 2016 | 8,212 |
| 5 | K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2002 | 7,042 |
| 6 | Leptin and renal disease | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2002 | 6,157 |
| 7 | Revised Equations for Estimated GFR From Serum Creatinine in Japan | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2009 | 5,260 |
| 8 | Regulation of the Voltage Gated K+Channel Kv1.3by Recombinant Human Klotho Protein | Kidney and Blood Pressure Research | 2014 | 5,235 |
| 9 | Intravenous Fluids and Acute Kidney Injury | Blood Purification | 2017 | 4,905 |
| 10 | Association between Water Intake, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Cardiovascular Disease: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of NHANES Data | American Journal of Nephrology | 2013 | 4,045 |
| 11 | Management of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: Mixing Acute and Chronic Illness | Blood Purification | 2017 | 3,492 |
| 12 | KDIGO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Acute Kidney Injury | Nephron | 2012 | 3,459 |
| 13 | Targeting Hypoxia-Inducible Factors for the Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients | American Journal of Nephrology | 2017 | 3,310 |
| 14 | Differential Diagnosis of Glomerular Disease: A Systematic and Inclusive Approach | American Journal of Nephrology | 2013 | 3,071 |
| 15 | Clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in chronic renal disease | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 1998 | 2,995 |
| 16 | Acute Kidney Injury, Mortality, Length of Stay, and Costs in Hospitalized Patients | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2005 | 2,887 |
| 17 | New Equations to Estimate GFR in Children with CKD | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2009 | 2,853 |
| 18 | Definition and classification of chronic kidney disease: A position statement from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) | Kidney International | 2005 | 2,836 |
| 19 | The Banff 97 working classification of renal allograft pathology | Kidney International | 1999 | 2,817 |
| 20 | Targeting the KEAP1-NRF2 System to Prevent Kidney Disease Progression | American Journal of Nephrology | 2017 | 2,487 |
| 21 | Mineral Metabolism, Mortality, and Morbidity in Maintenance Hemodialysis | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2004 | 2,350 |
| 22 | TGF-β: the master regulator of fibrosis | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2016 | 2,269 |
| 23 | Organoid Models and Applications in Biomedical Research | Nephron | 2015 | 2,247 |
| 24 | Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and decreased kidney function in the adult US population: Third national health and nutrition examination survey | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2003 | 2,193 |
| 25 | Association of serum phosphorus and calcium x phosphate product with mortality risk in chronic hemodialysis patients: A national study | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 1998 | 2,149 |
| 26 | Kidney disease is associated with in-hospital death of patients with COVID-19 | Kidney International | 2020 | 2,075 |
| 27 | A Clinical Score to Predict Acute Renal Failure after Cardiac Surgery | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2005 | 1,917 |
| 28 | A 30-s Chair-Stand Test as a Measure of Lower Body Strength in Community-Residing Older Adults | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | 1999 | 1,887 |
| 29 | Dialysis Dose and Intradialytic Hypotension: Results from the HEMO Study | American Journal of Nephrology | 2013 | 1,883 |
| 30 | Death Risk in Hemodialysis Patients: The Predictive Value of Commonly Measured Variables and an Evaluation of Death Rate Differences Between Facilities | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 1990 | 1,871 |
| 31 | Heart Failure with Preserved and Reduced Ejection Fraction in Hemodialysis Patients: Prevalence, Disease Prediction and Prognosis | Kidney and Blood Pressure Research | 2017 | 1,821 |
| 32 | Renal and Extrarenal Effects of Gum Arabic (Acacia Senegal) - What Can be Learned from Animal Experiments? | Kidney and Blood Pressure Research | 2013 | 1,692 |
| 33 | Psychometric Properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory in a Competitive Sport Setting: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | 1989 | 1,689 |
| 34 | Hospital-acquired renal insufficiency | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2002 | 1,676 |
| 35 | Assessment of Physical Activity by Self-Report: Status, Limitations, and Future Directions | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | 2000 | 1,657 |
| 36 | Chronic kidney disease after acute kidney injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis | Kidney International | 2012 | 1,657 |
| 37 | Gadolinium – a specific trigger for the development of nephrogenic fibrosing dermopathy and nephrogenic systemic fibrosis? | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2006 | 1,649 |
| 38 | K/DOQI clinical practice guidelines for bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2003 | 1,637 |
| 39 | The Classification of Glomerulonephritis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Revisited | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2004 | 1,626 |
| 40 | Advanced oxidation protein products as a novel marker of oxidative stress in uremia | Kidney International | 1996 | 1,619 |
| 41 | Accuracy of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (NGAL) in Diagnosis and Prognosis in Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2009 | 1,612 |
| 42 | Diabetic Kidney Disease | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2017 | 1,600 |
| 43 | Definition, evaluation, and classification of renal osteodystrophy: A position statement from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) | Kidney International | 2006 | 1,586 |
| 44 | Modified Glomerular Filtration Rate Estimating Equation for Chinese Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2006 | 1,580 |
| 45 | Obesity and Kidney Disease: Hidden Consequences of the Epidemic | American Journal of Nephrology | 2017 | 1,557 |
| 46 | Arterial media calcification in end-stage renal disease: impact on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality | Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation | 2003 | 1,554 |
| 47 | Identification of Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin as a Novel Early Urinary Biomarker for Ischemic Renal Injury | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2003 | 1,546 |
| 48 | The global epidemiology of hypertension | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2020 | 1,530 |
| 49 | Strong association between malnutrition, inflammation, and atherosclerosis in chronic renal failure | Kidney International | 1999 | 1,498 |
| 50 | Kidney Injury Molecule-1 (KIM-1): A novel biomarker for human renal proximal tubule injury | Kidney International | 2002 | 1,488 |
| 51 | Cisplatin nephrotoxicity: Mechanisms and renoprotective strategies | Kidney International | 2008 | 1,476 |
| 52 | Self-Efficacy and the Stages of Exercise Behavior Change | Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport | 1992 | 1,441 |
| 53 | Serum cystatin C is superior to serum creatinine as a marker of kidney function: A meta-analysis | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2002 | 1,435 |
| 54 | Development and progression of nephropathy in type 2 diabetes: The United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS 64) | Kidney International | 2003 | 1,429 |
| 55 | Normal Bone Anatomy and Physiology | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2008 | 1,423 |
| 56 | Renal histopathological analysis of 26 postmortem findings of patients with COVID-19 in China | Kidney International | 2020 | 1,388 |
| 57 | Review on uremic toxins: Classification, concentration, and interindividual variability | Kidney International | 2003 | 1,379 |
| 58 | Chronic Kidney Disease and Mortality Risk: A Systematic Review | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2006 | 1,346 |
| 59 | Inflammation enhances cardiovascular risk and mortality in hemodialysis patients | Kidney International | 1999 | 1,335 |
| 60 | Non-Transgenic Mouse Models of Kidney Disease | Nephron | 2016 | 1,327 |
| 61 | Sevelamer attenuates the progression of coronary and aortic calcification in hemodialysis patients | Kidney International | 2002 | 1,316 |
| 62 | Preserving renal function in adults with hypertension and diabetes: A consensus approach | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2000 | 1,314 |
| 63 | International standardization of criteria for the histologic diagnosis of renal allograft rejection: The Banff working classification of kidney transplant pathology | Kidney International | 1993 | 1,305 |
| 64 | Minimal Changes of Serum Creatinine Predict Prognosis in Patients after Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Prospective Cohort Study | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2004 | 1,301 |
| 65 | KDOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines and Clinical Practice Recommendations for Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2007 | 1,298 |
| 66 | The classification of glomerulonephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus revisited | Kidney International | 2004 | 1,272 |
| 67 | 2002 annual report: ESRD clinical performance measures project | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2003 | 1,266 |
| 68 | Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis: Suspected Causative Role of Gadodiamide Used for Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2006 | 1,255 |
| 69 | KDOQI US Commentary on the 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of CKD | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2014 | 1,249 |
| 70 | Prevalence of abnormal serum vitamin D, PTH, calcium, and phosphorus in patients with chronic kidney disease: Results of the study to evaluate early kidney disease | Kidney International | 2007 | 1,244 |
| 71 | Foreword | Kidney International | 2009 | 1,242 |
| 72 | Time trends in reported prevalence of kidney stones in the United States: 1976–199411.See Editorial by Goldfarb, p. 1951. | Kidney International | 2003 | 1,239 |
| 73 | Second generation logarithmic estimates of single-pool variable volume Kt/V | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 1993 | 1,220 |
| 74 | KDIGO 2017 Clinical Practice Guideline Update for the Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prevention, and Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease–Mineral and Bone Disorder (CKD-MBD) | Kidney International Supplements | 2017 | 1,214 |
| 75 | Impact of epoetin alfa on clinical end points in patients with chronic renal failure: A meta-analysis | Kidney International | 2004 | 1,202 |
| 76 | Pathologic Classification of Diabetic Nephropathy | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2010 | 1,191 |
| 77 | Calcineurin Inhibitor Nephrotoxicity | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2009 | 1,178 |
| 78 | Glycosylation in health and disease | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2019 | 1,166 |
| 79 | A mechanistic analysis of the National Cooperative Dialysis Study (NCDS) | Kidney International | 1985 | 1,145 |
| 80 | Percutaneous Pyelolithotomy | Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology | 1976 | 1,144 |
| 81 | Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Microvesicles Protect Against Acute Tubular Injury | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2009 | 1,144 |
| 82 | Vitamin D | American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology | 2005 | 1,119 |
| 83 | Adequacy of dialysis and nutrition in continuous peritoneal dialysis | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 1996 | 1,116 |
| 84 | A Role for Uric Acid in the Progression of Renal Disease | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2002 | 1,109 |
| 85 | The contribution of chronic kidney disease to the global burden of major noncommunicable diseases | Kidney International | 2011 | 1,105 |
| 86 | KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Diabetes and CKD: 2012 Update | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2012 | 1,095 |
| 87 | Clinical and echocardiographic disease in patients starting end-stage renal disease therapy | Kidney International | 1995 | 1,094 |
| 88 | Modified RIFLE criteria in critically ill children with acute kidney injury | Kidney International | 2007 | 1,093 |
| 89 | KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline for Vascular Access: 2019 Update | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2020 | 1,087 |
| 90 | III. NKF-K/DOQI Clinical Practice Guidelines for Vascular Access: Update 2000 | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2001 | 1,083 |
| 91 | Acute kidney injury in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 | Kidney International | 2020 | 1,073 |
| 92 | Chronic Kidney Disease as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of Community-Based Studies | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2004 | 1,072 |
| 93 | Bone metabolism and disease in chronic kidney disease | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2003 | 1,067 |
| 94 | Cellular and molecular mechanisms of renal fibrosis | Nature Reviews Nephrology | 2011 | 1,067 |
| 95 | Goodpasture syndrome during the course of a Schönlein-Henoch purpura | American Journal of Kidney Diseases | 2002 | 1,060 |
| 96 | Serum Phosphate Levels and Mortality Risk among People with Chronic Kidney Disease | Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: JASN | 2005 | 1,056 |
| 97 | World Incidence of AKI | Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN | 2013 | 1,054 |
| 98 | Administered mesenchymal stem cells protect against ischemic acute renal failure through differentiation-independent mechanisms | American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology | 2005 | 1,052 |
| 99 | Obesity-related glomerulopathy: An emerging epidemic | Kidney International | 2001 | 1,049 |
| 100 | Limitations of creatinine as a filtration marker in glomerulopathic patients | Kidney International | 1985 | 1,040 |
