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International Journal of Bioprinting Bioprinting in wound dressing and healing

Figure 5. Rose plot of papers related to bioprinting in wound dressing and healing contributed by different countries.

mechanical sensing of mesenchymal stem cells on from all regions of the world, except South America and
thermally responsive polymer surfaces for bioprinting Africa (only Egypt and South Africa have published 1
technology by introducing stresses generated by acoustic paper each). However, as this topic is in its explosive phase,
energy or polymer strain energy functions. it will continue attracting new academic groups to join the
research avenue. For example, the first papers on this topic
2.3. Geographic distribution were published by researchers from United Arab Emirates,
Figure 5 shows a plot of different countries’ participation Argentina, France, and Egypt in the first 5 months of 2022.
levels on this topic. The USA contributed to 25.25% of
the papers published on this topic. The second place Figure 6 illustrates the cooperation network between
was claimed by China, which contributed to 23.74% of the different institutions on this topic. As can be seen,
published papers. Spain, England, Singapore, and India this topic has only resulted in an influential collaborative
were involved in more than 5% of the published papers. network. This cooperation network was mainly led by the
According to the distribution of countries, it is known that university and research institutions from the USA and
this topic attracts the attention of scientists and doctors Singapore, including Harvard University, Harvard Medical

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