Blood Transfusion Journal

What Blood Transfusion Journal does

Blood Transfusion is a peer-reviewed academic journal publishing original research, reviews, case reports, guidelines, position papers, and letters on blood transfusion medicine, hematology, and patient blood management. It is operated by SIMTI (Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia), the Italian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology, and is registered as a nonprofit organization headquartered in Milan, Italy. The journal currently publishes on a bimonthly cadence at Vol. 24 (2026) and serves an international readership spanning Italy, China, Spain, Germany, the United States, and Australia.

The journal runs on a standard Open Journal Systems-based digital publishing platform that handles article submission, structured peer review across multiple section types (editorial, commentary, original article, brief report, case report, meeting report, review, recommendations, letter to the editor, guidelines), and online dissemination. Content is assigned DOIs and indexed in academic citation databases, and is distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 open access license, supporting both subscription-based institutional access and open access visibility.

Commercially, the journal monetizes through two streams: institutional subscriptions (libraries and hospitals paying recurring fees for access to current and archived issues) and Article Processing Charges paid by authors for open access publication of individual articles. The operation is small (5 employees) and run as part of SIMTI's scholarly publishing activities, with administrative contact via [email protected]. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. The journal does not disclose revenue, has no external funding rounds, and has no parent company or commercial investor base, consistent with a society-sponsored nonprofit publishing operation rather than a venture-backed business.

Name

Blood Transfusion Journal

Legal name

SIMTI - Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale

Website

https://bloodtransfusion.it

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Blood Transfusion is a nonprofit, SIMTI-sponsored peer-reviewed medical journal (Impact Factor 2.7, 2025) publishing bimonthly research on transfusion medicine for an international readership of clinicians, researchers, and healthcare institutions.

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Medical Scholarly Publishing

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Medical & Clinical Reference (Physicians, Nursing, Allied Health)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

Keywords

• Peer-reviewed journal
• Medical publishing
• Transfusion medicine
• Scholarly publishing
• Open access publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Institutional Subscriptions: Libraries and institutions subscribe to access journal content including archives and current issues.
2. Article Processing Charges (Open Access): Authors pay publication fees for open access visibility of their research articles.

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

A peer-reviewed academic journal publishing original research, clinical guidelines, case reports, position papers, and expert consensus on blood transfusion, hematology, and patient blood management. Published bimonthly in print and online under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 open access license by SIMTI (Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia), the Italian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology.

Product overview

Blood Transfusion Journal is a single peer-reviewed medical journal publishing scholarly research on blood transfusion medicine, hematology, patient blood management, and related clinical topics. The journal operates as a unified platform offering access to peer-reviewed content across multiple article categories including original articles, reviews, case reports, commentaries, guidelines, and letters to the editor. The journal publishes issues on a bimonthly schedule and maintains sections for various publication types such as Editorial, Commentary, Position paper, Original article, Brief report, Case report, Meeting report, Review, Recommendations, Letter to the Editor, and Guidelines. The journal is indexed and has achieved a 2025 Impact Factor of 2.7.

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Problem solved

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Products and services

• Blood Transfusion Journal A bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering blood component collection, patient blood management, hematology, immunohematology, and transfusion practices. Publishes editorials, commentaries, position papers, original articles, brief reports, case reports, meeting reports, reviews, recommendations, letters to the editor, and clinical guidelines. Indexed in major academic citation databases and distributed globally to institutional and individual subscribers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Impact Factor 2.7 (2025)

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• SIMTI (Società Italiana di Medicina Trasfusionale e Immunoematologia)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIMTI is the Italian Society of Blood Transfusion and Immunohematology, serving as the journal's sponsoring organization. The partnership provides editorial oversight through SIMTI-affiliated professionals and enhances credibility within the Italian and international transfusion medicine community.

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Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Bone Marrow Transplantation (Nature/Springer): Nature/Springer journal on transplantation including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, intersecting with Blood Transfusion Journal on cellular therapy and transfusion support topics.
• Hematology (ASH education): ASH's education-focused hematology journal, partially overlapping with Blood Transfusion Journal's educational content and continuing-medical-education use cases for transfusion medicine practitioners.
• Annals of Hematology (Springer): Springer-published hematology journal with broader scope than Blood Transfusion Journal but overlapping readership among hematologists who also practice transfusion medicine.
• Haemophilia (Wiley / WFH): World Federation of Hemophilia journal covering bleeding disorders. Adjacent to Blood Transfusion Journal through shared readership of transfusion practitioners managing coagulopathy patients.

Direct peers

• Transfusion (AABB journal): The flagship peer-reviewed journal of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), covering the same transfusion medicine topic as Blood Transfusion Journal and competing directly for the same international author pool and institutional subscribers.
• Transfusion Medicine Reviews: Elsevier-published review journal focused on transfusion medicine practice and research, serving the same readership of transfusion specialists and competing for the same review-format submissions.
• Transfusion and Apheresis Science: Elsevier-published journal covering transfusion medicine and apheresis, overlapping with Blood Transfusion Journal's scope on clinical transfusion practice and donor/apheresis research.
• Transfusion Medicine (Wiley / BBTS): Journal of the British Blood Transfusion Society, publishing transfusion medicine research and clinical practice studies. Closely aligned in scope, audience, and society-affiliated publishing model.
• Vox Sanguinis (ISBT journal): Official journal of the International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT), publishing peer-reviewed research on transfusion medicine and immunohematology — the most direct international society-affiliated competitor to Blood Transfusion Journal.

Broad incumbents

• Blood (ASH flagship journal): Flagship journal of the American Society of Hematology covering the full breadth of hematology research. Not specialty-focused on transfusion but draws the highest-IF transfusion-relevant submissions away from niche journals.

Market position

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Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

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Investors

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Investments

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