Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced a partnership with the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy to publish open access journal Renal Replacement Therapy. The journal will publish its first articles in late 2015.
The journal will be led by Editor-in-Chief, Takashi Shigematsu, Professor and Director of the Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine at the Wakayama Medical University School of Medicine, Japan. He is also the Director of the Blood Purification Medicine and Clinical Engineering at Wakayama Medical University Hospital. His major research interests focus on bone and mineral metabolism such as chronic kidney disease-related bone and mineral metabolism, involving phosphate metabolism and vitamin D metabolism.
Renal Replacement Therapy will cover all aspects of hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, blood purification, renal transplantation and regenerative medicine. In addition, the journal will accept manuscripts from the fields of chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, anemia and iron metabolism, kidney infection, and hypertension. Although affiliated with the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy, submissions will be accepted from anywhere in the world.
The Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy initially will cover all of the article-processing charges for the journal.
