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Is the publishing landscape of bioprinting research going to change?

science, medicine and surprisingly, chemical engineering bioprinting research to experience an explosive
(Figure 2). Pharmacology seems to be on the rise in change in next few years due to the participation of
recent years. It is expected that this landscape will the new journals with strong presence of existing
continue to grow organically as new definitions arise journals. Along with this dynamic growth, the editori-
and new applications of bioprinting are being devel- al team of IJB will continue to drive bioprinting as a
oped in these research fields. multi-disciplinary research field and a critical enabler
In conclusion, we expect the publishing landscape of in life sciences.

Figure 1. Number of documents (article or review) per year (data source: Scopus).

Figure 2. Bioprinting documents by subject area from 2004 to 2015 (data source: Scopus).

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