Blood Transfusion is an English-language, bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. It is published by the Italian Society of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohematology (, SIMTI). As of 2024, the editor-in-chief is Serelina Coluzzi.
Scope As an online open-access publication, Blood Transfusion covers a range of topics including blood donation and donor recruitment; immunohematology; transfusion medicine, patient blood management, collection, production and storage of blood components, transfusion transmitted diseases, hemovigilance, therapeutic apheresis, cellular therapy and regenerative medicine, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cord blood banking, immunogenetics, hemostasis and thrombosis, hematology, organization and quality systems in transfusion medicine, legal and ethical aspects of transfusion medicine.
Abstracting and indexing The journal is indexed and abstracted in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's impact factor for 2024 is 2.3.Velati C. Blood Transfusion's first "impact factor". Blood Transfus. 2011;9(4):355.
History Blood Transfusion was founded in 1956 with Lorenzo Lapponi as its founding editor-in-chief.
Past Editors-in-Chief Lorenzo Lapponi, 1956–1964
Carlo Alberto Lang, 1965–1966
Roberto Venturelli, 1967–1968
Rosalino Sacchi, 1969–1978
Giorgio Reali, 1979–2006
Claudio Velati, 2007–2015
Giancarlo Maria Liumbruno, 2015–2019
Luca Mascaretti, 2020–2024
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