Readership
Allied Health Professionals, Clinicians, Diagnosticians, Epidemiologists, Geneticists, Hematologists, Pain Specialists, Pathologists, Pathophysiologists, Patient Advocates, Patients, Public Health Professionals, Researchers, Transplant Surgeons
Scope
Journal of Sickle Cell Disease (JSCD) is a leading peer-reviewed, open access journal focusing on the realms of basic, translational, clinical, social, health service, and implementation sciences associated with sickle cell disease. Our primary aims are to 1) publish innovative research findings; 2) foster an interdisciplinary environment that focuses scientific methods on sickle cell patient and caregiver needs, and 3) promote a holistic understanding of sickle cell disease.
Key Objectives:
Understand Holistic Disease: Cultivate comprehensive insights into sickle cell disease by connecting its molecular, cellular, clinical, and biopsychosocial facets.
Explore Basic Science: Champion research into the molecular, genetic, and cellular underpinnings of sickle cell disease, enriching foundational knowledge.
Accelerate Translational Research: Promote rapid transformation of basic scientific discoveries into tangible clinical applications, ensuring patients benefit directly from laboratory breakthroughs.
Accelerate Implementation of Best Practices: Promote and disseminate advances in biopsychosocial approaches and methodologies, treatment paradigms, and both patient-focused and externally-focused strategies, to accelerate better sickle cell disease care and prevention
Integrate the Sickle Cell Community: Offer a seamless platform where basic, translational, clinical, social, health service, and implementation scientists share with clinicians, patients, family members, caregivers, advocates, government, payors, and pharma and device manufacturers, and vice-versa, to propel the field forward.
Promote Health Equity: illuminate sickle cell disease health disparities and health care disparities, promote sickle cell health equity and healthy living, and disseminate best practices of cultural humility, appreciation of diversity, and multicultural exchange regarding sickle cell disease.
Enhance Global Perspectives: Appropriately emphasize sickle cell disease's global relevance, research solutions to global variations in presentation, treatment, and healthcare access, and foster international research collaborations.