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Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 1319-2442Verify ISSN ↗2320-3838Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nephrology | 65 / 88 | 26th | Q3 |
| Transplantation | 41 / 55 | 26th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation is Q3 in Nephrology (rank 65 of 88) and Q3 in Transplantation (rank 41 of 55), by CiteScore 2025.
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.264, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 1319-2442 and its online ISSN is 2320-3838.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 87 Scopus journals in Nephrology.
Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 227. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (31.4%), Saudi Arabia (16.6%) and Egypt (11.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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