This article offers a bibliometric overview of the practice guidelines on physiotherapy indexed in the PEDro database between 2003 and 2017. 410 records correspond to guidelines of clinical practice, representing 1% of all production indexed in PEDro. Cardiothoracic and musculoskeletal disorders received most attention from researchers. Pain was the most researched problem and fitness training and education the most researched therapies. The interdisciplinary practices in the various subdisciplines were reflected in the differing degrees of authorship collaboration. Most of the research was carried out in universities located in the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. The research outputs were scattered in many journals with a core of ten journals including some from the general medical and health sciences. This study provides an overview of the productivity and visibility of research work in clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy. The results could be used to organize and prioritize future research efforts in research in the field.
