the number of scientific papers is a conventional metric to measure a country's research performance in a particular area. the aim of this survey was to demonstrate statistical information about orthodontic research published in international and national journals.pubmed as an international and iranmedex and sid as national databases were searched between1997 and 2012. the keyword searching met...

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