Interdisciplinary interaction in the field of biomedical engineering in the last two decades

This study aims to investigate the interdisciplinary relationships of biomedical engineering with other scientific domains in WoS during the period 1997 to 2017.

The method of the present study is descriptive survey-analytical with a quantitative and scientometric approach. The study population consisted of 9100 articles related to biomedical engineering indexed in the WOS for 21 years. 955 articles were selected through stratified random sampling.

Scientific production in the field of biomedical engineering from 1997 to 2017 has a growing trend. The tendency to co-authorship with a collaboration coefficient of 0.77 in this field is high. Data visualization showed that "biomedical engineering", "materials science - multidisciplinary", "polymer science", "electrical and electronic engineering" and "tissue and cellular engineering" are the most frequent and effective fields.

Conclustion: 

The process of research and scientific and hot topics in this field and common fields and their impact has led to the emergence of new fields of study in this profession. Since the group collaboration rate of researchers in this field is at a high level, researchers can contribute to the advancement and development of biomedical engineering through wider communication with each other.