About the Journal

Pakistan Journal of Kidney Diseases (PJKD) got its declaration in 2017 as a monthly till October 2019, when  it was changed to a quarterly journal.  The journal is committed to publishing articles related to kidney diseases and transplantation.  It provides a forum for the nephrology community in Pakistan and internationally to publish so as to understand the local scenarios of kidney diseases and its management issues.  We also provide a forum for publishing articles related to the policy making and education related to nephrology.

The website for the journal was initiated in 2018 with its submission process online. Facing issues with submission process we have switched to OJS system for online submission from January 2021.  We have uploaded articels from year 2019 and 2020 and in the process of add the archive upto July 2017 when first issue of PJKD was published. We are in a process of continuous improvement to support our nephrology community and facilitate the submission process till its final approval. 

PJKD is an open access journal from the start and there was no submission fee for the authors.

Lack of funding for research has generated low quality research and been a hurdle to creative thinking and application into research procees.  New ideas are not being generated as frequently and aplied into research. getting funding from the research funding agencies is always a huge issue.  In the meeting with the Pakistan Society of Nephrology (PSN) it was decided to initiate a processing fee and publication charges. This will cover the rising costs for publication and running of the journal.  About one third of the collections after expenses will be provided to PSN for distribution for research funding, as PJKD Research Fund. 

Following will be the non-refundable processing fees and Publication charges:

Original Articles: Non-refundable processing fee of Pak Rs 3000/- (US$ 15) will be required at the time of submission.  At the time of final approval of manuscript the publication charges Pak Rs 20,000/- (US $ 75) will be required for final publishing the article.

Case reports:No processing fee will be required at the time of submission.  At the time of final approval of manuscript the publication charges Pak Rs 5,000/- (US $ 25) will be required for final publishing of the article.

Picture in Nephrology and  Review Artciles: No processing charges and publication charges.

For Trainees and Residents (need evidence) where they are the first author: No processing fee is required and will be charged 50% of the Publication fee (Pak Rs 10,000/- (US $ 40) at the time of final publication. 

The journal provides immediate open access to its contents. We believe in free exchange of ideas and recognize the importance of research as it is readily available for all to improve the well being of humanity.

The work published by PJKD is licensed and distributed under the creative commons License : CC By NC Attribution-non commercial 

PJKD is affiliated with Pakistan Society of Nephrology, the only society representing the Nephrology community in Pakistan.

We are in preparation of getting recognized by the Higher Education commission of Pakistan and other international organizations such as Web of Science and Pubmed.

We are highly appreciative of our authors who have contributed valuable articles highliting the problems in Pakistan faced by the patients and their managment issues.  We expect to increase our local researchers to initiate collaboration with the international community thus bringing PJKD to the international arena of Nephrology research.

We welcome submissions from international authors and ensure speedy and timely peer review.