OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Dairy Science is 40. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of spring feeding strategy on pasture productivity, sward quality, and animal performance within intensive pasture-based dairy systems	189
Effects of systemic or uterine endotoxin challenge in Holstein cows at 5 or 40 days postpartum on clinical responses, uterine and systemic inflammation, and milk yield	93
Effects of offering free-choice hay for the first 5 days postpartum on productivity, serum inflammatory markers, gut permeability, and colon gene expression in fresh dairy cows	90
Recording antimicrobial use on Irish dairy farms: Barriers and facilitators to using technology and sharing data	84
Genomic inbreeding coefficients using imputation genotypes: Assessing the effect of ancestral genotyping in Holstein-Friesian dairy cows	80
INTERPRETIVE SUMMARIES, OCTOBER 2024	65
Effects of prepartum supplementation of β-carotene on colostrum and calves	60
Signatures of selection reveal candidate genes involved in production traits in Chinese crossbred buffaloes	59
Replacing soybean meal with microalgae biomass in diets with contrasting carbohydrate profiles can reduce in vitro methane production and improve short-chain fatty acid production	56
The effects of dexamethasone administration on physiological, behavioral, and production parameters in dairy cows after a difficult calving	55
Characterization of Bifidobacterium bifidum growth and metabolism on whey protein phospholipid concentrate	54
Effects of colostrum feeding on the mRNA abundance of genes related to toll-like receptors, key antimicrobial defense molecules, and tight junctions in the small intestine of neonatal dairy calves	54
Rumen-protected choline reduces hepatic lipidosis by increasing hepatic triacylglycerol-rich lipoprotein secretion in dairy cows	53
Cellular proliferation and apoptosis in Staphylococcus aureus–infected heifer mammary glands experiencing rapid mammary gland growth	53
Modeling missing pedigree with metafounders and validating single-step genomic predictions in a small dairy cattle population with a great influence of foreign genetics	52
Effect of milk replacer feeding rate and frequency of preweaning dairy calves in the southeastern United States: Glucose metabolism	52
Circulating progesterone concentrations and pregnancy outcomes in high-producing lactating dairy cows treated with human chorionic gonadotropin on day 2 of the estrus cycle	51
Associations between measures of network centrality and Johne's disease among dairy herds in Ontario, Canada	50
Prevention of osteoporosis in ovariectomized mice with calcium yak caseinate	50
Effect of ensiled alpha-amylase–enabled corn grain at 2 concentrations in the diet on lactation performance, chewing activity, ruminal fermentation, nutrient digestibility, and nitrogen partition of d	49
Association between genomic daughter pregnancy rates and reproductive parameters in Holstein dairy cattle	47
Quantifying and mapping digital dermatitis–associated bacteria in lesion and nonlesion body sites and dairy farm environment	47
Effects of raw and roasted high oleic soybeans on milk production of high-producing dairy cows	46
Increasing the prepartum dose of rumen-protected choline: Effects on milk production and metabolism in high-producing Holstein dairy cows	46
Machine learning methods for genomic prediction of cow behavioral traits measured by automatic milking systems in North American Holstein cattle	45

β-Casein A1 and A2: Effects of polymorphism on the cheese-making process	45
Evaluation of a test-and-cull strategy to control bovine paratuberculosis based on the detection of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis DNA using the high-throughput Johne's fecal polymerase cha	43
Characterization of circulating microRNA profiles of postpartum dairy cows with persistent subclinical endometritis	43
Onboarding dairy farm employees: Improving the new employee experience	43
Evaluation of MYBL1 as the master regulator for pachytene spermatocyte genes dysregulated in interspecific hybrid dzo	42
Opportunities for genomic selection of cheese-making traits in Montbéliarde cows	42
The untargeted lipidomic profile of quarter milk from dairy cows with subclinical intramammary infection by non-aureus staphylococci	42
Association of Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis serostatus with age at first calving, calving interval, and milk production in dairy cows	42
Genetic parameters of sole lesion recovery in Holstein cows	41
Promoting farm advisor engagement and action toward the improvement of dairy cattle lameness	41
Across-countries genomic prediction using national breeding values or multitrait across-countries evaluation breeding values	40
Imputation accuracy and carrier frequency of deleterious recessive defects in Australian dairy cattle	40
Rapid and sensitive detection of Salmonella in milk based on hybridization chain reaction and graphene oxide fluorescence platform	40
Milking system and diet forage type effect on milk quality of Italian Holstein-Friesian	40
A transgenerational study on the effect of great-granddam birth month on granddaughter EBV for production traits in Italian Simmental cattle	40