Fastest-accepting hematology journals 2026

37 hematology journals ranked by the median number of days from submission to acceptance, measured from the dates publishers deposit in PubMed for articles published 2024–2025. The interval includes peer review and revisions.

Journals: 37
Typical median: 103 d
Under 60 days: 3
Over 180 days: 0

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Accepted papers only. Rejected manuscripts never receive an acceptance date, so these figures say nothing about desk-rejection speed, rejection rates or your chance of acceptance.
Not the time to a first decision. The interval runs from the “received” date to the “accepted” date the publisher deposits in PubMed. It includes editorial handling, peer review, every round of revision and the time authors spent revising.
Journals record dates differently. Some reset the received date when a revised manuscript arrives, and manuscripts transferred from another journal may keep or lose their earlier dates. Short medians are therefore not always comparable with long ones.
Past timelines are not a promise. Each figure comes from up to 100 recent articles published 2024–2025. Article types, special issues, editors and workload all change, and your paper may take much longer or much less time.
Fast is not the same as good. Check the journal’s scope, indexing, peer-review policy and editorial board before submitting. An unusually quick acceptance can be a warning sign of light peer review.

Journal Metrics is independent and is not affiliated with any journal or publisher listed. The figures are for information only, may contain errors and change as PubMed records are updated. Confirm current timelines on the journal’s own website. See how to spot predatory journals.

Hematology journals by median days from submission to acceptance

Hematology journals ranked by median days from submission to acceptance in PubMed
Rank	Journal	Median days	Middle half	Articles	Quartile	2026 score
1	SEMINARS IN HEMATOLOGY	42	14–74	97	Q1	3.6
2	Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases	54	23–92	100	Q3	1.4
3	Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia	58	40–77	100	Q4	0.4
4	EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY	60	42–88	100	Q2	1.9
5	BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY	64	29–169	52	Q1	3.9
6	Transplantation and Cellular Therapy	69	53–104	100	Q3	1.0
7	BLOOD REVIEWS	73	55–92	100	Q1	6.0
8	Blood Research	81	56–111	96	Q1	2.8
8	BLOOD COAGULATION & FIBRINOLYSIS	81	37–157	80	Q3	1.0
10	Leukemia Research Reports	86	57–123	99	Q4	0.4
11	ANNALS OF HEMATOLOGY	89	62–167	100	Q2	2.0
12	eJHaem	90	46–136	100	Q3	1.2
13	THROMBOSIS RESEARCH	91	67–127	100	Q1	2.5
13	EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY	91	48–137	98	Q4	0.8
15	BRITISH JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY	94	71–126	95	Q1	2.6
16	TRANSFUSION AND APHERESIS SCIENCE	97	77–146	60	Q4	0.8
17	Blood Science	99	50–139	79	Q2	1.7
17	TH Open	99	74–151	65	Q2	1.5
19	Blood Advances	103	64–140	90	Q1	5.2
20	LEUKEMIA RESEARCH	105	70–138	100	Q3	1.0
20	HemaSphere	105	74–147	100	Q1	3.1
22	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEMATOLOGY	106	76–135	100	Q2	1.8
23	Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis	107	56–144	100	Q2	1.7
23	Blood Cancer Journal	107	77–150	100	Q1	7.3
25	Indian Journal of Hematology and Blood Transfusion	117	90–163	99	Q4	0.3
26	BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION	119	78–159	85	Q1	3.0
27	Journal of Blood Medicine	124	98–160	100	Q3	1.7
27	International Journal of Laboratory Hematology	124	91–164	100	Q3	1.1
29	HAEMOPHILIA	126	85–177	95	Q2	2.1
30	Current Research in Translational Medicine	129	86–198	86	Q2	1.8
31	LEUKEMIA	131	92–184	100	Q1	6.4
32	JOURNAL OF THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS	134	89–172	100	Q1	3.5
33	JOURNAL OF CLINICAL APHERESIS	141	92–181	95	Q4	0.7
34	BLOOD	148	98–193	78	Q3	1.4
35	Therapeutic Advances in Hematology	152	121–194	97	Q2	2.3
36	Anemia	161	94–270	33	Q3	0.9
37	Case Reports in Hematology	171	119–228	100	Q4	0.4

Median days: half of the journal’s accepted articles took less time from submission to acceptance and half took more. Middle half: the 25th to 75th percentile. Articles: how many recent PubMed articles had both dates. Journals with the same rounded median share a rank.

Median under 30 days. Very short intervals usually reflect how a journal records its dates (for example a new received date after revision) or invited and fast-track article types such as reviews and editorials, not unusually quick peer review. Check the journal’s peer-review policy before reading anything into them.

Questions about hematology journal acceptance times

Which hematology journals accept papers fastest?

Among the 37 hematology journals with enough PubMed dates, the shortest median times from submission to acceptance (leaving out medians under 30 days, which usually reflect how dates are recorded) are SEMINARS IN HEMATOLOGY (42 days), Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases (54 days), Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia (58 days), EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY (60 days), BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL HAEMATOLOGY (64 days). These medians include peer review and revisions, and cover accepted papers only.

How long does a hematology journal take to accept a paper?

The typical hematology journal on this page has a median of 103 days from submission to acceptance. 3 of 37 journals have a median under 60 days and 0 take more than 180 days.

Is this the peer review time?

No. PubMed records when a manuscript was received and when it was accepted, not the individual review stages. The interval includes editorial handling, peer review, revisions and the time authors spent revising, so it is longer than the time to a first decision. For first-decision times, check the journal’s own website.

Does a fast journal mean my paper is more likely to be accepted?

No. Only accepted papers have an acceptance date, so this ranking says nothing about acceptance rates or how quickly a journal rejects papers. A very fast acceptance can also be a sign of light peer review. Check the journal’s scope, indexing and peer-review policy before submitting.

About this data

Source: the received and accepted dates publishers deposit in PubMed, read through the public NCBI E-utilities for articles published 2024-01-01 to 2025-12-31, up to 100 recent articles per journal. Data checked 2026-11-03.
A journal is ranked only when at least 20 articles have both dates and at least half of the articles checked have them. Journals that do not deposit dates in PubMed, including most journals outside the life sciences, cannot be ranked here.
The ranking uses each journal’s median: half of its accepted articles took less time and half took more. The middle-half range shows the 25th to 75th percentile.
Fields come from the OpenAlex classification of each journal’s research topics. A journal joins a field when at least two of its four main topics are in it, so a journal can appear in more than one field and some classifications are imperfect.
Quartile and score are the journal’s best OpenAlex subfield quartile and its Journal Metrics Score, shown for context; they play no part in the order.

The full journal-level dataset is in the journal acceptance times study (with a CSV download). Spot an error or a journal whose dates look wrong? Tell us.

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