**4. Conclusion**

The use of graphene and graphene-based materials in biomedicine and bioengineering is an emergent technology that promises a wide variety of application in human health, diagnostics, and therapeutics. Here, for the first time, we carried out a scientometric analysis on this topic, finding as a result that the number of published issues and of their citations is quickly and markedly increasing, as proof of the intense activity in this field. The countries that display a more active production (in quantitative term) are from Asia (China, South Korea, India, and Iran) and from North America (the USA). The issues published are mainly referred to hard sciences (materials science, chemistry, science and technology, physics, and engineering) rather than biology or medicine. Despite that these materials are used in a wide variety of biomedical and bioengineering applications (from cell culture to stem cell differentiation, from the realization of scaffolds to toxicological studies), the research activity on these issues seems still in an early stage, characterized by the physical and chemical characterization of materials, rather than the massive application in biomedicine and bioengineering.
