About this journal

Aims and scope

The Journal of Blood Medicine is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal publishing laboratory, experimental and clinical aspects of all topics pertaining to blood based medicine including but not limited to:

  • Transfusion Medicine (blood components, stem cell transplantation, apheresis, gene based therapeutics)
  • Blood collection, Donor issues, Transmittable diseases, and Blood banking logistics
  • Immunohematology
  • Artificial and alternative blood based therapeutics
  • Hematology including disorders/pathology related to leukocytes/immunology, red cells, platelets and hemostasis
  • Biotechnology/nanotechnology of blood related medicine
  • Legal aspects of blood medicine
  • Historical perspectives
  • Original research, short reports, reviews, case reports and commentaries are invited.

The Journal of Blood Medicine will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 88K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 2.1 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 2.1 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 3.5 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • 0.999 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.534 (2023) SJR

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief:

Dr Martin H Bluth, Pathology, Maimonides Medical Center, United States

Editorial Board:

Professor Maria Amaya, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at El Paso, United States

Prof. Dr. Pierpaolo Di Micco, Department of Internal Medicine and Emergency Room, Thrombosis Unit, Fatebenefratelli Hospital of Naples, Italy

Professor Chang Kim, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Professor Daniel Kim-Shapiro, Department of Physics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Dr Barbara Lombardo, Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples, Italy

Professor Kailash Pandey, Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States

Professor Simon Robson, Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School, United States

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Russo, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania, Italy

Dr Olga Scudiero, Molecular Medicine and medical biotechnology, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy

Professor Donna Wang, Nanomedicine and Molecular Intervention, Michigan State University, United States

Professor Brian Wigdahl, Microbiology and Immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine, United States

Dr Indryas Woldie, Oncology, Wayne State University; University of Western Ontario; Adult Hemostasis and Thrombosis Clinic, Detroit Receiving Hospital, United States

Professor Hiroki Yoshida, Division of Molecular and Cellular Immunoscience, Department of Biomolecular Science, Saga University, Nabeshima Saga City, Japan

Professor Dong-Er Zhang, Department of Pathology and Division of Biological Science, University of California, United States

Abstracting and indexing

Journal of Blood Medicine is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EMBASE (Elsevier)

Pubmed (NLM)

PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Open access

Journal of Blood Medicine is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

Why choose open access?

  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
  2. Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

Article Publishing Charges (APC)

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