The African Journal of Nephrology (AJN) is the official journal of the African Association of Nephrology (AFRAN) and publishes peer-reviewed papers relating to clinical or basic research in nephrology and hypertension, as well as nephrology education. The Journal considers submissions of original articles, review articles, case reports, technical reports, practice guidelines, images in nephrology, teaching points, congress proceedings and letters to the Editor.

Peer Review Process

The peer review process is handled via the Open Journal Systems (OJS) online editorial system. A single-blind approach is used, with authors not aware of the identity of reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief or an associate editor screens all submitted manuscripts and rejects unsuitable manuscripts at this point. Submissions without ethics approval, those without authorship statements and those which have not been formatted according to the author guidelines are most likely to be rejected immediately. Articles selected for peer review are sent to 2–3 reviewers with the appropriate expertise. Reviewers are asked to complete the review within 3 weeks. We aim to provide initial feedback to authors within 6 weeks of submission. Revised manuscripts may be dealt with by the editor, or sent back to the reviewers. Members of the editorial board may be called upon to make additional recommendations. The Editor-in-Chief has the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of all manuscripts.

Publication Frequency

AJN publishes articles continuously as they are accepted, in a single issue each year. This ensures that research is made available to the scientific community much earlier.

Open Access Policy

The African Journal of Nephrology is an Open Access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

Copyright and Permissions

Copyright on articles published is owned by the author(s). All articles are published under the following Creative Commons licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This licence facilitates free, immediate access and unrestricted reuse. Anyone may copy, distribute or reuse any article, as long as the authors and original source are properly cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers. Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or subject repository.

Sponsors

The African Journal of Nephrology is published by AFRAN and hosted by PKP Publishing Services on the OJS platform. Publication costs are funded, in part, by the South African Nephrology Society.

• South African Nephrology Society

Journal History

The Journal was established in 1997, with Maher Fouad Ramzy as the founding editor. The current Editor-in-Chief, Alain Assounga, has served since 2012 (volume 15). In 2016, the Journal was re-launched as a fully online, open access publication on the Open Journal Systems platform, then hosted by Stellenbosch University, under the supervision of Razeen Davids. In 2026, the Journal moved to its own independent platform at afranjournal.org, hosted by PKP Publishing Services, with its DOI registration and archive now managed directly by AFRAN. Issues are available from 2009 onwards, together with the recovered 2003 volume, and earlier issues are being digitised as they are located. We are seeking copies of issues published between 1997 and 2008 so that they can be digitised and added to make a complete record of all published AJN papers available. Please contact Razeen Davids at mrd@sun.ac.za if you are able to assist.