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International Journal of Bioprinting is an international journal covering the technology, science and clinical application of the broadly defined field of Bioprinting. Bioprinting is defined as the use of 3D printing technology with materials that incorporate viable living cells or biological elements to produce tissue or biotechnological products.

We are interested in the scientific topics spanning all stages of bioprinting process from concept creation to fabrication and beyond. Knowledge generated in these researches must be related to bioprinting.

The journal publishes original research articles on basic and applied research as well as associated social implications of this research. The journal also publishes brief commentaries and reviews. Articles focusing on the practical applications of 3D-printed products are similarly welcome.

Examples of relevant topics include but are not limited to:

Information technologies and basic research

Medical scanning and imaging for printable format
Data security and validation in medical additive manufacturing
Logistic management in bioprinting
Mass customization design methodology or platform technology
Blueprint for organ printing
Automated algorithm for 3D modelling of bioprintable files
Research models (e.g. cancer, pre-surgical evaluation, etc.)

Materials and formulation

New material and method of preparation
Hybrid and composite material system
Evaluation technologies for bioprinting process and bioprinted product
Biomimetic and bioinspired design and material system
Interaction of processing and materials
Post-processing of bioprinted medical constructs

Cell source and biotechnology for additive manufacturing

Cell source research
Large-scale or high throughput cell culture techniques
Tissue spheroid research (modelling, analysis, measurement, biological observation, characterization)
Interaction of cell-material

3D Bioprinting technologies

Bioprinting technologies or 3D printing techniques for direct manipulation of cells and biological elements
New printing systems or new printing methodology
Optimization methodology

New design and fabrication paradigm

Hybrid approach in medical additive manufacturing
Information technologies and software in
Architectural design
Real time and non-invasive monitoring techniques
Maturation techniques of printed construct
Bioreactor for printed construct

Applied research purpose & evaluation of 3D printed products

Implants and prosthetics
Bioprinting
Biological tissue model for toxicology testing, drug delivery, drug production-related
Scaffold for tissue engineering
Regenerative medicine
Medical imaging purposes (e.g. 3D-printed probes)
Bionic organ
Organ printing
Personalized drug
Biomodels for surgical training and planning
Exoskeleton
Further optimisation/advantages/limitations
Education

Associated social implications

Ethics
Economic relationships and shifts
Policies and regulation
Intellectual property (IP-copyright, design protection, patents, and trademarks), licensing
Business (e.g. chain supply, management)
Environmental impact
Community sentiments to 3D-printed products (e.g. healthcare providers, users, etc.)

2. Publishing Model

Gold open access. All articles published by IJB are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.

3. Copyright and License to Publish

Articles in IJB are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.

Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting IJB, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

4. Editorial Board

For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.

5. Editorial Policies

All manuscripts submitted to IJB should adhere to AccScience Publishing's Editorial Policies.

6. Peer Review

The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes double-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process.

7. Publication Ethics Statement

IJB fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of IJB take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.