Journal profile · HEMATOLOGY

Hematology Reports

ISSN 2038-8322 · eISSN 2038-8330 · PAGEPress Publications · Italy

Hematology Reports: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.9 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,930; median 63 days to acceptance (108 articles, last 24 months); 76 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.

Impact factor1.9From the journal's website, 2025 value
CAS zoneZone 4 · Medicine2025 upgraded edition, major category · 2026 Xinrui edition Zone 4 · Medicine
Review time63 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · 108 articles, last 24 months · PubMed
APCUSD 1,930Fully open access
Acceptance—No reports yet
Articles per year762025 · OpenAlex count

Scope

Aims, scope and focus

Hematology Reports is published by PAGEPress Publications and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders, together about 26% of its articles. Its main subfields are Hematology and Genetics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Hematology Reports (ISSN 2038-8330) is an international open access journal on all aspects of prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the blood, as well as related molecular and cell biology, genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology and controlled trials. Hematology Reports publishes reviews, regular research papers (articles), case reports and communications. Our aim is to collect high-quality articles of interest and cutting-edge in hematology, and provide an efficient, reliable and guaranteed platform for scholars and readers, encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical research in as much detail as possible. Full experimental and/or methodological details must be provided for research articles.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): HEMATOLOGY

Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate

  1. Acute Myeloid Leukemia ResearchMedicine9.7%
  2. Lymphoma Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine9.1%
  3. Hemoglobinopathies and Related DisordersMedicine7.2%
  4. Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia ResearchMedicine6.3%
  5. Multiple Myeloma Research and TreatmentsMedicine5.7%
  6. Platelet Disorders and TreatmentsMedicine4.7%
  7. Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4.7%
  8. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia TreatmentsMedicine4.4%

Rankings & indexing

CAS ranking and database indexing

CAS Journal Ranking

CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
LevelCategoryZone
MajorMedicineZone 4
MinorHematologyZone 4

Top journal: noReview journal: no

CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
LevelCategoryZone
MajorMedicineZone 4
MinorHematologyZone 4

Top journal: noReview journal: not marked

CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered

Not covered by this edition.

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePMCPubMedEmbasePublisher website

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Metrics

Impact metrics and publication volume

Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025
1.9Publisher website ·
5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
1.6Publisher website ·
CiteScore 2026-06
2.3LetPub ·
CiteScore (publisher)
2.3Publisher website ·
SJR 2026-06
0.57LetPub ·
SNIP 2026-06
0.71LetPub ·
h-index
30OpenAlex ·
i10-index
162OpenAlex ·
2-year mean citedness
2.23OpenAlex ·
Self-citation rate
0%LetPub ·
Share of gold OA articles
100%LetPub ·

Volume

Articles per year
76LetPub ·
Articles per year (publisher)
2,024Publisher website ·

Articles by year OpenAlex count · 685 in total · the current year is incomplete

YearArticlesOpen accessCitations
2026666614
20257676121
20247575348
20237272483
20225454229
20212727153

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Review & acceptance

Review time and acceptance

Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to

63 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 49 days – 85 days

Acceptance to online
median 5 days (108 articles)
Submission to online
median 69 days
Sample
108 articles with submission and acceptance dates (156 in the window); the latest was accepted on

Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)
about 10 weeksLetPub ·
Submission to first decision
26.3 daysPublisher website ·
Acceptance to publication
4.6 daysPublisher website ·
Peer review
Anonymous peer reviewLetPub

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

Fees & open access

APC and open-access policy

Fully open accessOpenAlex

Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).

SourceAPCFee waiverLicenseObserved
OpenAlexCHF 1,600——
LetPubCHF 1,600Yes—
Publisher websiteYes, amount not published——

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Submission

Article types and submission policies (journal website)

What to prepare7 items from the author guidelines
Reference style
Author–date
Templates
LaTeX and Word
First submission
Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Suggested reviewers
Required, 3
Highlights
Optional
Graphical abstract
Optional
Cover letter
Required
Publisher website · model-extracted, each line checked against the text
Article types accepted19
  1. articleArticle: Original research manuscripts. The journal considers all original research manuscripts provided that the work reports scientifically sound experiments …Length not stated
  2. book reviewAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  3. brief communicationAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  4. brief reportAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  5. case reportAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  6. commentaryAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  7. conference reportAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  8. editorialAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  9. hypothesisAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  10. letterAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  11. opinionAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  12. perspectiveAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  13. protocolAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  14. registered reportAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  15. reviewAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  16. systematic reviewAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  17. technical noteAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
  18. tutorialAll Article Types Article Review Communication Editorial Abstract Book Review Brief Communication Brief Report Case Report Clinicopathological Challenge Comment…Length not stated
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Publisher website
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Code availability, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
Authorship Authorship

MDPI follows the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) guidelines which state that, in order to qualify for authorship of a manuscript, the following criteria should be observed: Make substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work, or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; Draft the work or review it critically for important intel…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Code availability

Citation policy: sources must be clearly cited, permission obtained where appropriate, no excessive self-citation, no copying references unread, no preferential citation of own or peers' publications, no citing advertisements; original wording must appear in quotation marks with citations per COPE. Model summary

Authors should ensure that where material is taken from other sources (including their own published writing) the source is clearly cited and that where appropriate permission is obtained. Authors should not engage in excessive self-citation of their own work.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest

According to The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, “Authors should avoid entering into agreements with study sponsors, both for-profit and non-profit, that interfere with authors’ access to all of the study’s data or that interfere with their ability to analyze and interpret the data and to prepare and publish manuscripts independently when and where they choose.” All authors mus…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Data availability Data availability statements

Authors must publish all experimental controls and make full datasets available where possible. Model summary

Data availability statements are required for all articles published with MDPI. During the peer review and editorial decision process, authors can be asked to share existing datasets or raw data that have been analyzed in the manuscript, and whether they will be made available to other researchers following publication. Authors will also be asked for the details of any existing datasets that have …

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Publication ethics Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). We fully adhere to its Code of Conduct and to its Best Practice Guidelines. The editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification,…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
License & copyright Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Hematology Reports will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text: © 2026 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the t…

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Open access Open access publication fees

Free format submission accepted; no strict formatting requirements, but required sections must be present; references may be in any consistent style; formatting applied at revision stage. Model summary

If you transfer your manuscript to another open access (OA) journal, you will be charged an Article Processing Charge (APC) if your article is accepted for publication. The APC for each journal can be found on the individual journal’s website. For more information about APCs, please see here.

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Peer review Editorial Process and Peer Review

All submissions are thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts within the field and undergo a structured editorial workflow designed to ensure quality, transparency, and scientific integrity. The full editorial procedure is available on the Editorial Process page and is also provided below. Pre-check Pre-check consists of a technical pre-check performed by the Editorial Office and an editorial pre-check …

Source ↗Publisher website ·
Preprints Preprints and Conference Papers

Hematology Reports accepts submissions that have previously been made available as preprints provided that they have not undergone peer review. A preprint is a draft version of a paper made available online before submission to a journal. MDPI operates Preprints, a preprint server to which submitted papers can be uploaded directly after completing journal submission. Note that Preprints operates i…

Source ↗Publisher website ·

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Profile

Publication details and official links

Publisher
PAGEPress Publications
Country or region
Italy
Language
English
ISSN
2038-8322
Electronic ISSN
2038-8330
Latest issue on the website
Volume 18 (2026)
Official links

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Hematology Reports

What CAS zone is Hematology Reports in?

In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Hematology Reports is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Hematology. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.

What is the impact factor of Hematology Reports?

The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.9 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.3, h-index 30.

How long does peer review take at Hematology Reports?

Based on the dates recorded on 108 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 63 days (interquartile range 49–85 days); authors report an average review time of about 10 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.

What are the manuscript requirements of Hematology Reports?

According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required, 3; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.

Which databases index Hematology Reports?

According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Hematology Reports is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC, PubMed and Embase; that list has not been checked against each database.

Is Hematology Reports open access, and what is the APC?

Hematology Reports is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,930.

Sources and updates

The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .