OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biofabrication is 39. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
From microtissues to organs: the future of reconstructive surgery with organ building block-based bioprinting	130
Microfluidic-based platforms for cell-to-cell communication studies	91
Development of immunocompetent full thickness skin tissue constructs to model skin fibrosis for high-throughput drug screening	82
A scalable coaxial bioprinting technology for mesenchymal stem cell microfiber fabrication and high extracellular vesicle yield	79
A microvascularized in vitro liver model for disease modeling and drug discovery	75
A biopsy-sized 3D skin model with a perifollicular vascular plexus enables studying immune cell trafficking in the skin	71
Cell-laden bioink circulation-assisted inkjet-based bioprinting to mitigate cell sedimentation and aggregation	67
Cancer cell migration depends on adjacent ASC and adipose spheroids in a 3D bioprinted breast cancer model	63
3D bioprinted extracellular vesicles for tissue engineering—a perspective	59
Suspension bath bioprinting and maturation of anisotropic meniscal constructs	55
Spheroid on-demand printing and drug screening of endothelialized hepatocellular carcinoma model at different stages	54
Biochemical and immunomodulatory insights of extracellular matrix from decellularized human whole cervix: recellularization and in vivo ECM remodeling interplay	53
Enhanced gelatin methacryloyl nanohydroxyapatite hydrogel for high-fidelity 3D printing of bone tissue engineering scaffolds	52
3D bioprinted vascularized lung cancer organoid models with underlying disease capable of more precise drug evaluation	51
In vitro vascularization of hydrogel-based tissue constructs via a combined approach of cell sheet engineering and dynamic perfusion cell culture	51
Formation of functionally robust human neocartilage from multiple donors using highly expanded costochondral cells	50
Injectable rBMSCs-laden hydrogel microspheres loaded with naringin for osteomyelitis treatment	48
Influence of asymmetric microchannels in the structure and function of engineered neuronal circuits	48
3D bioprinted cell-laden GrooveNeuroTube: a multifunctional platform for ex vivo neural cell migration and growth studies	47
Biofabrication of a tri-layered 3D-bioprinted CSC-based malignant melanoma model for personalized cancer treatment	47
Bilayer silk fibroin/sodium alginate scaffold promotes vascularization and advances inflammation stage in full-thickness wound	46
A 3D-printed blood-brain barrier model with tunable topology and cell-matrix interactions	44
Fabrication of bioinspired grid-crimp micropatterns by melt electrospinning writing for bone–ligament interface study	44
Acetylcholine-loaded nanoparticles protect against doxorubicin-induced toxicity in in vitro cardiac spheroids	43
Study of paraquat-induced pulmonary fibrosis using biomimetic micro-lung chips	43

Cartilage tissue engineering by extrusion bioprinting utilizing porous hyaluronic acid microgel bioinks	43
From local to global matrix organization by fibroblasts: a 4D laser-assisted bioprinting approach	43
High-throughput microgel biofabrication via air-assisted co-axial jetting for cell encapsulation, 3D bioprinting, and scaffolding applications	43
Biofabrication of 3D breast cancer models for dissecting the cytotoxic response of human T cells expressing engineered MAIT cell receptors	42
Biofabricated nanomaterials in sustainable agriculture: insights, challenges and prospects	42
Freeform printing of thermoresponsive poly(2-cyclopropyl-oxazoline) as cytocompatible and on-demand dissolving template of hollow channel networks in cell-laden hydrogels	41
3D bioprinted in vitro epilepsy models for pharmacological evaluation in temporal lobe epilepsy	41
In vitro osteogenesis of hMSCs on collagen membranes embedded within LEGO^®-inspired 3D printed PCL constructs for mandibular bone repair	41
The Batch-Resourcing Angiogenesis Tool (BRAT) to enable high-throughput microscopy screening of microvascular networks	40
Endothelial extracellular vesicles enhance vascular self-assembly in engineered human cardiac tissues	40
In vitro circulation model driven by tissue-engineered dome-shaped cardiac tissue	40
Support-less ceramic 3D printing of bioceramic structures using a hydrogel bath	39
Biohybrid tensegrity actuator driven by selective contractions of multiple skeletal muscle tissues	39
Recent trends in embedded 3D bioprinting of vascularized tissue constructs	39