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International Journal of Bioprinting Bioprinting in wound dressing and healing

Figure 2. Annual and accumulated publications from 2011 to 2021 searched in the Web of Science about bioprinting in wound dressing and healing.

This current review summarizes the development volume of this topic suddenly rose to 31 articles, which is
of bioprinting in wound dressing and healing. Two 55% higher than that of 2019. The upward trend of 2021
bibliometrics software were used in this systematic was further strengthened with 58 articles. By the end of
literature review. The first is CiteSpace, developed by Dr. writing the Introduction section of this paper, the data
Chaomei Chen, a professor at the Drexel University School for this bibliometric analysis were counted through May
of Information Science and Technology [42-45] . CiteSpace 2022, so the data for this year cannot be added to Figure 2.
6.1R2 was used to calculate and analyze all documents. However, we believe that the increasing trend of annual
COOC is another emerging bibliometrics software . publications on this topic will not be changed, as 43 papers
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COOC12.6 was used to analyze annual publications and have already been published in 6 months. From Figure 3, it
keywords co-occurrence. We used the core collection on can be concluded that bioprinting in wound dressing and
Web of Science as a database to assure the integrity and healing is undergoing a rapid development phase. This is
academic quality of the studied material. “Bioprinting the most dynamic and breakthrough phase of the topic.
wound” or “bioprinting ‘skin tissue engineering’” were used Many scientists, resources, and attention will be devoted to
as a “Topic.” The retrieval period was indefinite, and the this topic to overcome the challenges involved. This phase,
date of retrieval was May 2022. A total of 196 articles were if maintained for a more extended time, will help attract the
retrieved, spanning the years 2011 to 2022. All relevant attention of interdisciplinary scholars and further develop
papers were then manually screened by a co-author (from the possibilities of this topic. The following content covers
a 3D printing company) to ensure that they all fit into the the careful analysis of the areas of this topic.
analysis of the topic.
2.2. Journals, cited journals, and research subjects
2. Developments in the research field Figure 3 shows the top 10 journals that published the
most papers regarding bioprinting in wound dressing and
2.1. Literature development trends healing. The materials science-related journals occupy a
Figure 2 shows the annual and cumulative number of large proportion of them, such as Polymers, Biomedical
publications on wound dressing and healing between Materials, Acta Biomaterialia, Bioactive Materials, ACS
2011 and 2021. Based on this figure, the first paper on this Applied Materials & Interfaces, Carbohydrate Polymers,
topic was published in 2011. Miller et al. inkjet-printed and Advanced Functional Materials. Polymers are the most
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heparin-bound epidermal growth factors in different common choice for wound dressings, such as polyurethane,
concentrations on fibronectin substrates and investigated so polymer-related journals appear frequently here.
how they direct cell migration to the wound site. This topic Because bioprinting involves the relationship between
did not receive extensive attention until 2018, with less materials science and biology, journals in the category
than 10 publications being published on this topic per year. of biomaterials also appear with high frequency. On the
Until 2018, the annual publication of this topic started to other hand, Pharmaceutics and Burns & Trauma have
enter an upward period. By 2020, the annual publication also published papers on the topic of wound dressing and

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