A Scientometric assessment of titanium-hydroxyapatite composite

Abstract

In orthopaedic and dental implants, a bone graft has been widely used is a metal material because of its excellent mechanical properties. One of the materials used as an implant is titanium because of low modulus elasticity and corrosion resistance. However, using metal as an implant material has its drawback, because it has low bonding strength into bone tissue. Combining titanium and hydroxyapatite into composite has been becoming an option to increase implant materials bioactivity. Bibliometric analysis was conducted to find trends and contributions to titanium-hydroxyapatite composite research. About 932 documents on articles and reviews of Ti–HA composite was obtained from the SCOPUS. Exported data in CSV format were processed using VOS-viewer and Biblio-shiny to visualize annual scientific contributions, corresponding authors country, top published and top citation country and sources, top-citation affiliations and documents, also co-occurrence of all keywords by authors. China became the most publications document, and Sichuan University became the most relevant affiliation. From all sources, Biomaterials have the highest h-index of 32, with citations of 10,834 papers. The main topics from the authors keywords are “hydroxyapatite” and “composite coatings.” Research related to titanium hydroxyapatite composite has prospects for further development to be used in biomedical applications.