Growing trend of China’s contribution to tissue engineering

This study examines China’s performance on tissue engineering using scientometrics measures such as China’s global publication share, rank, growth rate and citation impact, its publications in various sub-fields, top journals in terms of national share based on last 5 years (2008–2012) publications data obtained from ISI Science citation index expanded database. We have also determined Chinese share with international collaborative papers at the national level, as well as h-core papers and high-cited papers, etc.