Use when targeting Kidney International or deciding whether a nephrology or hypertension clinical/translational study fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit with a global ISN perspective, the evidence and mechanistic bar, reporting-guideline and registration requirements, ISN house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. Venue-fit aid only, not clinical advice.
SkillScore83Maintained
Automatic
◆Research pack
Last verified 9/1/2026
What it changes
Passed 20 of 24 test cases with the skill, and 8 of 24 without it.
Without skill33%
With skill83%
Checks it passed that the model alone missed
The output rates the fit as High.
The re-route suggestion includes Critical Care Medicine.
The output includes `[Target] Kidney International (ISN)`.
and 8 more in the full report
14 fixed6 passed either way2 still failing2 broke
Pass-rate lift
+50 pp
Tokens
+19%
Agent turns
0%
Response time
-32%
Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 9/1/2026v120 of 24 cases passed with skill
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
See it in action
One of 14 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
1 of 14
Prompt
I have a list of five medical journal references for a paper on hemodialysis vascular access. Please convert these citations into Vancouver reference style with numbered superscript formatting.
What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked
Without skill
With skill
The response presents citations in numbered Vancouver reference format.
Missed
Passed
The response omits the bracketed fit assessment template.
Passed
Passed
case-24 · gemini-3.6-flash · 9/1/2026 · answers are capped and redacted
What's inside
The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.
SKILL.md122 linessingle file
Kidney International (kidney-international)
Journal positioning
Kidney International is the flagship journal of the International Society of Nephrology
(ISN), publishing high-impact nephrology and hypertension research with an explicitly
global, international perspective across clinical and translational science: kidney
disease epidemiology and trials, dialysis and transplantation, and mechanistic kidney
biology with clear human relevance. Its defining expectation is a clinically or
translationally important advance in kidney health that matters across diverse health
systems and populations, with strong representation of global-health, epidemiologic,
and outcomes nephrology alongside disease mechanism — not a narrow single-center series
or a basic experiment with no human anchor. Compared with the U.S.-society sibling, KI
leans toward international clinical breadth and translational relevance. This skill is a
fit / venue-selection / re-framing aid; it is not clinical or regulatory advice and
does not replace the journal's current instructions for authors. Before submitting,
re-check the live Kidney International author instructions.
When to trigger
The author names Kidney International for a nephrology, hypertension, or kidney
translational study and wants a fit/framing check.
A kidney study must be re-framed around international clinical relevance, outcomes, or
disease mechanism with human anchoring.
The author is choosing between Kidney International and the Journal of the American
Society of Nephrology (ASN flagship), or general medicine.
The author needs the journal's reporting-guideline, registration, and global-health/
epidemiology expectations.
Scope & topic fit
Clinical nephrology and hypertension: CKD, AKI, glomerular disease, and blood-pressure/
kidney interactions across diverse populations.
Kidney-disease epidemiology and global-health nephrology: burden, access, and outcomes
across health systems and resource settings.
Dialysis and transplantation: outcomes, modality, access, and organ-preservation
research with international relevance.
Translational kidney science: biomarkers, genetics/genomics, and mechanism studies with
validated human relevance.
Clinical trials and large multinational cohorts with kidney endpoints.