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The metadata used in this study were obtained from the Web of Science
(WoS) Core Collection bibliographic database. In this sense, WoS is
considered one of the most relevant scientific information sources as it
contents reliable evidence about citations, and it is widely used in
research evaluations (Bakkalbasi, Bauer, Glover, & Wang, 2006).
The search strategy used in this study was “TISSUE ENGINEER*” or
“TISSUE-ENGINEER*’, and it was applied on Science Citation Index (SCI)
- Expanded Collection for a period between 2012 and 2018. Once the
metadata was extracted, we excluded reviews, book chapters, meeting
abstracts, and proceeding articles. Then, original articles obtained
from this research were matched with the information available at the
Altmetrics web (www.altmetric.com). It holds important social data since
2012 from a much broader sources spectrum than traditional metrics (e.g.
web-based references, news media mentions, Twitter mentions or patents,
among others) (Trueger et al., 2015).