“…Importantly, our study showed that European orthodontic research was not evenly distributed, since only 9 countries were responsible for around 80% of the output. This trend is not limited to orthodontics, as it was also observed by bibliometric studies in prosthodontics, 26 endodontics 27,28 or in global dental research, 21,29,30 as well as other biomedical fields such as radiology, 31 cardiology, 32 urology, 33 pathology 34 or medico‐legal sciences 35 . As in our study, when adjusting for population size, small and Northern European nations (Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland) lead compared to larger and more populated countries (United Kingdom, Germany) 21,22,29,31‐34,36 …”