Thalassemia Reports is a small journal about one group of diseases, and its scope is written as a list of problems rather than as a list of disciplines.《Thalassemia Reports》是一份只谈一类疾病的小刊，范围写成一份问题清单，不写成学科清单。
Aetiology and epidemiology come first, which puts the distribution of the haemoglobinopathies inside the remit from the start.病因学与流行病学排在最前，血红蛋白病的分布从一开办就在职责之内。
Diagnosis is the second heading, covering both the laboratory work that identifies a carrier and the work that separates one form of the disease from another.诊断是第二个标题，既包括认出携带者的实验室工作，也包括把一种病型与另一种分开的工作。
Treatment and management take the largest share of the published record, and the papers range from transfusion policy to iron chelation and to gene therapy.治疗与管理占了存量的大头，论文从输血策略到祛铁治疗，再到基因治疗。
Complications form a heading of their own, since the cardiac, endocrine and bone problems of long survival are where most clinical decisions land.并发症单列一条，因为长期存活者的心脏、内分泌与骨骼问题正是多数临床决策落下去的地方。
Thalassaemia in special populations closes the list. Pregnancy, childhood and settings with few resources are the cases the editors say they want.特殊人群中的地中海贫血收尾。妊娠、儿童与资源匮乏环境，是编辑们明说想收的病例。
The journal asks for evidence that changes care. A paper that only adds a data point to a well-filled field is outside the stated aim, however sound its methods.这份刊要的是能改变诊疗的证据。只是往一个已经填满的领域里再加一个数据点的稿子，方法再稳也在宗旨之外。
Case reports are welcome when they carry the full clinical picture, which is unusual for a haematology title of this age and explains part of its readership.病例报告只要把病情交代完整就受欢迎，对一份这个年纪的血液学刊来说这不常见，也解释了它的一部分读者。
Sickle cell disease and the wider group of haemoglobinopathies are inside the remit. Papers on fertility in sickle cell disease and on the epidemiological profile of haemoglobinopathies both appear in recent volumes.镰状细胞病与更广的血红蛋白病都在范围内。血红蛋白病的流行病学画像，以及患者在生育方面的处境，近年卷次里都出现过。
The journal publishes in English and every article is free to read at the point of use, with the author keeping copyright.刊物以英文出版，每篇文章在阅读端免费，著作权归作者。
An article charge of 1,000 Swiss francs applies to accepted work, and the fee page is linked from the journal's own site rather than from a central price list.录用稿件收 1,000 瑞士法郎的文章处理费，收费页挂在刊物自己的站上，不在总价目表里。
Review is single anonymous. The referee knows who wrote the paper and the author does not learn who reviewed it.评审是单匿名的。审稿人知道稿子是谁写的，作者不会知道审稿人是谁。
Output is deliberately small. Recent volumes carry between 12 and 25 papers, which is roughly what a single-disease journal can expect.产出刻意做小。近年各卷在 12 到 25 篇之间，大约就是一份单病种刊物能指望的量。
History
The first volume is dated 2011 and was issued from Pavia by PAGEPress, with three issues carrying 37 papers between them.第一卷署 2011 年，由帕维亚的 PAGEPress 出版，三期共 37 篇。
A preface in the second year was signed by Aurelio Maggio, Androulla Eleftheriou and Michael Angastiniotis, which is the closest the record comes to a founding statement.第二年的卷首语由 Aurelio Maggio、Androulla Eleftheriou 与 Michael Angastiniotis 联署，这是存缴里最接近创刊宣言的东西。
The early years ran irregularly. Volume five held a single issue in 2015, and volume nine held a single paper in 2019, which is what a small title looks like when submissions dry up.早年出得不齐。第五卷 2015 年只有一期，第九卷 2019 年只有一篇，来稿枯竭时一份小刊就是这个样子。
Publication moved to MDPI in 2021, and the change is recorded in the journal itself through a publisher's note announcing that MDPI would continue the title.出版方在 2021 年换成 MDPI，这次交接记在刊物内部，是一则说明由 MDPI 接续出版的出版方声明。
The move restarted the cadence. From volume twelve, which is the 2021 volume, the journal has run four issues a year without a break.换手把节奏重做了一遍。从第十二卷也就是 2021 年那一卷起，一年四期没有断过。
Article numbering changed with the platform in 2022, when page ranges gave way to article numbers, a second publisher's note records the switch.2022 年随平台换了编号方式，页码让位给文章号，第二则出版方声明记下了这次改动。
The catalogue record holds both imprints. Pavia and PAGEPress sit beside Basel and MDPI in the same entry, which is how a transfer of this kind gets filed.编目记录把两个出版印记都留着。帕维亚与 PAGEPress 和巴塞尔与 MDPI 写在同一则条目里，这类交接就是这样归档的。
Sixteen volumes had appeared by 2026, and the sixteenth runs from 2025 into 2026 with 25 papers.到 2026 年共出十六卷，第十六卷从 2025 年跨进 2026 年，共 25 篇。
Crossref holds 323 records for the title, a deposit that covers the whole run including the thin years.Crossref 对这份刊有 323 条记录，覆盖整段历史，包括那几年产量很薄的时候。
The impact factor was 0.6 in 2023, 1.2 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, a fourfold rise in two years for a journal that publishes a dozen papers annually.影响因子 2023 年是 0.6，2024 年是 1.2，2025 年是 2.4，对一份年发十来篇的刊来说，两年翻了四倍。
The five-year figure is 1.6 against the two-year 2.4, which means the recent papers are carrying the average and the older ones are not.五年值 1.6 对两年值 2.4，说明均值靠的是近期论文，老论文并不出力。
Total citations are 128 and the cited half-life is 2.5 years, so the citation base turns over quickly and a good year shows up almost at once.总被引 128 次，引用半衰期 2.5 年，引用基础换得快，一个好年份几乎立刻就能看见。
Hematology places the journal in Q2 at 51 of 103, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.31 and a percentile of 51.血液学门类把它列在 Q2，103 种里第 51 位，期刊引文指标 0.31，百分位 51。
The title sits in the emerging sources edition rather than the expanded index, and the medical library records PubMed coverage as selected citations only.这份刊挂在新兴来源版而不是扩展版索引里，医学图书馆把它的 PubMed 覆盖记作选择性收录。
Open access listing is complete. The journal appears in the Directory of Open Access Journals with the review model, the article charge and the board address all published in the same record.开放获取的登记是齐的。它在开放获取期刊目录里有条目，评审模式、文章处理费与编委页地址都写在同一份记录里。
The subject databases carry it as well. Embase and the chemical abstracts service index the title alongside the citation index.学科数据库也收。Embase 与化学文摘服务把这份刊与引文索引并列收录。
Editors
Aurelio Maggio of the Villa Sofia-Cervello Hospital in Italy is editor-in-chief. His name heads the 2012 preface and it still heads the masthead in the current announcement.主编是意大利 Villa Sofia-Cervello 医院的 Aurelio Maggio。他的名字排在 2012 年卷首语前面，在当下的公告里也仍然排在第一。
The two other signatories of that preface, Androulla Eleftheriou and Michael Angastiniotis, came from the patient and clinical side of the field rather than from a single laboratory.那篇卷首语的另外两位署名人 Androulla Eleftheriou 与 Michael Angastiniotis，来自这一领域的患者组织与临床一线，而不出自某一家实验室。
The board sits behind a single editor. Papers go to Maggio's journal office and the decision comes back from there, which is how a journal of this size is normally run.编委会挂在一名主编之下。稿子递到 Maggio 的编辑部，决定也从那里回来，这个体量的刊通常就是这么运转的。
The review model is single anonymous, as the open access record states, and the editorial procedure is published as a numbered sequence on the instructions page.评审是单匿名的，开放获取记录里写着，编辑流程则在投稿说明页上按编号顺序公开。
Speed is part of the offer. The journal's own announcements give 44.7 days to a first decision and 13.3 days from acceptance to publication.速度是它的一部分卖点。刊方自己的公告给出首次决定 44.7 天、从录用到上线 13.3 天。
The editorial office runs from MDPI's Basel operation, with a journal-specific address for correspondence and a single mailbox for submissions and queries.编辑部设在 MDPI 的巴塞尔机构里，有一个专门的通信地址，投稿与询问共用一个邮箱。
Topical collections are the board's instrument for gathering a subject. A feature collection on thalassaemia was assembled with a guest editor from outside the standing board.专题合集是编委会聚拢一个题目的工具。地中海贫血专题合集由一位常设编委之外的客座编辑组起来。
Since the transfer the board has kept the journal on a quarterly grid, and that regularity is the clearest change the present editors have made.接手之后编委会把这份刊按季度排定，这份规律是现任编辑做出的最明显改动。
The board is listed by role on the journal's editors page, with the editor-in-chief, the associate editors and the wider board in separate blocks, and that page address is the one filed with the open access directory.编委按角色列在刊物的编辑页上，主编、副主编与更广的编委名单各成一块，这个页址就是报给开放获取目录的那一个。
The editorial procedure is not left to description. The instructions page sets it out as a numbered sequence from submission to first decision, and the instructions link is the one the directory files against the review model.编辑流程不靠口头交代。投稿说明页把它从投稿到首次决定拆成编号步骤，目录里那条评审模式的记录指向的就是这一页。
The editors have used the case report channel sparingly, and a 2014 set on fertility and pregnancy in haemoglobinopathies shows what they mean by a report that carries the full picture.编辑们用病例报告这条通道用得很省，2014 年那组血红蛋白病中的生育与妊娠文章，能看出他们所说的把病情交代完整是什么意思。