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Bone Tissue Engineering Materials

Bone Tissue Engineering Materials is a research topic within Biomedical Engineering. Science Explorer counts 65k research works in it since 1950. 21.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the advances in bone tissue engineering and biomaterials, with a particular emphasis on scaffolds, biomaterials, and tissue engineering techniques for bone regeneration. The research covers topics such as hydroxyapatite, bioceramics, osteoblast adhesion, bioactive glass, polymeric scaffolds, and the role of angiogenesis in bone tissue engineering.

  • Scaffolds
  • Biomaterials
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Bone Regeneration
  • Hydroxyapatite
  • Bioceramics
  • Osteoblast Adhesion
  • Bioactive Glass
  • Polymeric Scaffolds
  • Angiogenesis
Research works
65k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
14k
per year above
Top-10% rate
21.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+34%
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Which countries lead Bone Tissue Engineering Materials research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (3.8k and 1.4k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 3.8k works
  2. 2 India 1.4k works
  3. 3 United States 994 works
  4. 4 Iran 616 works
  5. 5 Brazil 491 works
  6. 6 Russia 442 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 440 works
  8. 8 Japan 427 works
  9. 9 Germany 414 works
  10. 10 Italy 398 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 40.5%India: 14.8%United States: 10.5%Iran: 6.5%6 others listed: 27.7%40%largest
China3,823 · 40.5%India1,398 · 14.8%United States994 · 10.5%Iran616 · 6.5%6 others listed2,612 · 27.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Bone Tissue Engineering Materials research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Sichuan University publishes the most Bone Tissue Engineering Materials research, followed by Saveetha University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Who are the leading researchers in Bone Tissue Engineering Materials?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bone Tissue Engineering Materials include Hua Zhang, Seeram Ramakrishna and Róbert Langer.

  1. 1 Hua Zhang Singapore 5.9k citations
  2. 2 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 5.1k citations
  3. 3 Róbert Langer United States 4.2k citations
  4. 4 Jiaguo Yu China 4.2k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Bone Tissue Engineering Materials research done?

The largest centres of Bone Tissue Engineering Materials research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tehran (Iran) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chengdu.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 456 works
  2. 2 Shanghai China 363 works
  3. 3 Tehran Iran 293 works
  4. 4 Xi'an China 252 works
  5. 5 Chennai India 236 works
  6. 6 Chengdu China 224 works
  7. 7 Guangzhou China 211 works
  8. 8 Moscow Russia 186 works
  9. 9 Wuhan China 159 works
  10. 10 Nanjing China 155 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Chengdu23.2 works9.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bone Tissue Engineering Materials than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bone Tissue Engineering Materials?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sichuan University and Sahand University of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 23%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universitat Internacional de Catalunya: 12, 23.4%Sichuan University: 133, 30.5%Sahand University of Technology: 9, 22.8%Amirkabir University of Technology: 35, 22.8%Isfahan University of Technology: 32, 22.5%Tabriz University of Medical Sciences: 24, 19.8%RMIT University: 14, 36.1%Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București: 30, 13.8%University of Madras: 16, 12.2%University of Tehran: 29, 26.1%Sichuan UniversityUniversitat Internac…Sahand University of…Amirkabir University…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Universitat Internacional de CatalunyaSpain 61.123.4%20.6×12 +290.4%
2 Sichuan UniversityChina 57.330.5%5.6×133 +4.2%
3 Sahand University of TechnologyIran 57.222.8%10.5×9 +289.5%
4 Amirkabir University of TechnologyIran 56.722.8%9.9×35 +29.1%
5 Isfahan University of TechnologyIran 56.022.5%13.4×32 +19.8%
6 Tabriz University of Medical SciencesIran 55.719.8%7.5×24 +390.7%
7 RMIT UniversityAustralia 53.836.1%2.8×14 +301.2%
8 Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica BucureștiRomania 52.113.8%8.7×30 +125.6%
9 University of MadrasIndia 51.812.2%11.6×16 +154.5%
10 University of TehranIran 51.526.1%3.5×29 +226.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Bone Tissue Engineering Materials research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 34% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Bone Tissue Engineering Materials.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.