Cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) is a common head and neck congenital defect. Orthodontics plays a crucial role in CLP management, where recent years witnessed an increase in publication volume in the topic. However, no comprehensive bibliometric analysis has been conducted to illustrate publication trends and collaboration networks.

To analyze the bibliometrics of orthodontic publications related to care of patients with CLP from 2000 to 2024.

On 1 January 2025, a search was conducted on the Web of Science database. The bibliometric data of articles and reviews were analyzed using BiblioShiny software. VOSviewer software was also used to analyze author, affiliation, and country collaboration networks and the article's co-citation and keyword co-occurrence networks.

A total of 1295 studies were identified from the database search (90.7 % articles and 9.3 % reviews). Publications grew annually by 11.8 % on average, spiking around 2020 and 2021. There were 278 associated journals, with Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal at the top (18 %). There were 4456 authors associated with the studies, with Daniela Garib topping the list (1.78 %). Among the 944 affiliations associated with the studies, the University of Sao Paulo had the highest publication volume (11.6 %). The United States topped the 87 countries associated with the included studies (13.4 %), whereas developing countries showed an increase in publications from 2012 to 2024. The comparison between the two halves of the selected timespan showed a change in publishing trends between authors, source journals, affiliations, and countries.

Over the selected timespan, there has been an increase of orthodontic publications related to care of patients with CLP from 2000 to 2024. The gathered data showed dynamic transformation in the bibliometric data in the ranking of authors, affiliations, journals, and countries, along with changes in the research trending topics.