Bibliometric study of articles on skeletal Class II malocclusions published in four high impact factor journals.

Objective: Perform a bibliometric analysis of the orthodontic literature on skeletal Class II malocclusions during the first decade of the 21st century.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective, observational, and comprehensive study ranging from January the first 2001 to December 31 2010, based on the articles published in four high impact factor orthodontic journals: Angle Orthod, OCR, EJO, and AJODO (Quotation Report Newspaper of the Scientific Information Institute).

Results: In the 4565 reviewed articles, only 338 were published on Class II malocclusions.