About the Journal

Journal Insights

Aims & Scope

Portuguese Kidney Journal (PKJ) is the official organ of the Portuguese Society of Nephrology, which has been published continuously since 1986 and is published quarterly. It was formerly known as Portuguese Journal of Nephrology and Hypertension. Supplementary issues on selected themes may also be published at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

PKJ is an open access journal publishing articles on clinical or experimental studies of relevance to nephrology, pediatric nephrology, palliative nephrology, dialysis, renal transplantation and hypertension. Articles addressing health services, health care policy and socioeconomic issues of relevance to nephrology are welcome. Papers relating to basic immunology, physiology, genetics and epidemiology are accepted when kidney related. PKJ also publishes editorial matter relevant to nephrology.

 

Property

Portuguese Society of Nephrology

NIPC  504412973

Largo do Campo Pequeno nº 2, 2º A 1000-078 Lisboa 

(+351) 217 970 187 

geral@spnefro.pt

ISSN

e-ISSN: 2976-0526

 

Register

Registration with the Media Regulatory Authority (ERC) No. 127984

 

Periodicity
Quarterly (4 issues per year)

 

Open Access Policy

All articles published in Portuguese Kidney Journal (PKJ) are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication, with no subscription charges or registration barriers.
 
The journal does not charge any article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, or publication fees. 
 
Re-use of published content is permitted under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows others to copy, distribute, and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes, provided the original work is properly cited. Full license details are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 

 

Abstracting & Indexing

Web of Science na Colecção SciELO Citation Index

SciELO: Scientific Electronic Library Online

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

RCAAP: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal

IndexRMP: Índex de Revistas Médicas Portuguesas