OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Food Protection is 26. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of Method Performance for Quantitative Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Queso Fresco Cheese	132
Dietetics Student Perceptions of Food Safety Communication to Vulnerable Populations: An International Study	86
Unmasking Hidden Gluten: Evaluating the Compliance of Gluten-Free Products and Consumer Exposure in Lebanon	66
Prevalence of Histamine-Forming Bacteria in Two Kinds of Salted Fish at Town Markets of Guangdong Province of South China	62
Determination of Toxic Heavy Metals and Essential Minerals in Commercial Soft Drinks in Bangladesh: Implications for Human Health	55
Development of a Flexible Produce Supply Chain Food Safety Risk Model: Comparing Tradeoffs Between Improved Process Controls and Additional Product Testing for Leafy Greens as a Test Case	54
Use of a Novel UV-C Tunnel with PAA Misting to Reduce Escherichia coli on Carrots (Daucus carota)	51
Comparative Efficacy of Hand Wash Lather Times of 5 to 20 Seconds vs. Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer Application Approaches by an In Vivo Cross-Contamination Test Method	51
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Their Antibiotic Resistance Patterns in Dairy Farms and Their Microbial Ecosystems	49
Mature Listeria monocytogenes Biofilms Exhibit Reduced Susceptibility to Sanitizers – Relevance to the (Leafy Green) Fresh Food Supply Chain	42
Impact of the Probiotic Organism Megasphaera elsdenii on Escherichia coli O157:H7 Prevalence in Finishing Cattle	41
Evaluation of 16s Long Read Metabarcoding for Characterizing the Microbiome and Salmonella Contamination of Retail Poultry Meat	40
Costs of Overly Broad Recalls	39
Optimizing Salmonella Recovery From Commercial Poultry Environmental Samples With Selective Preenrichment	39
Simultaneous Discrimination of Cereulide-Producing Bacillus cereus and Psychrotolerant B. cereus Group by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry	37
Genomic Diversity and Potential Transmission and Persistence of Salmonella in the Cambodian Vegetable Supply Chain	36
Detection of Staphylococcus Enterotoxin sea and seb in Milk Samples by Duplex Droplet Digital PCR	35
Wholegenome sequencing as the gold standard approach for control of Listeria monocytogenes in the food chain	35
Food Safety Practices of Food Handlers in China and their Correlation with Self-reported Foodborne Illness	33
Poultry Processing Interventions Reduce Salmonella Serovar Complexity on Postchill Young Chicken Carcasses as Determined by Deep Serotyping	32
Formation and Control of Listeria monocytogenes Growth and Accumulation on Food Processing Surfaces in the Fresh Produce Industry	31
Effect of Nitrite-Embedded Packaging Film on Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in Nitrite-free and Conventionally-cured Bologna Sausage	30
Serovar Diversity and Cellular State Modulate Salmonella Response to Antimicrobial Treatments	30
Viable Campylobacter jejuni on Eggshells and Its Potential to Cross-contaminate Egg White and Yolk When Using a Manual Separation Technique, Determined by Culture and Propidium Monoazide (PMA) qPCR	30
Rifampicin− Resistant Salmonella and Shiga–toxin−Producing Escherichia coli Exhibit Comparable Lactic Acid and Chlorine Stress Phenotypes to Wild-Type Strains	28

Real-time Detection of Foodborne Pathogens and Biofilm in the Food Processing Environment with Bactiscan, A Macro-scale Fluorescence Device	26
Validation of High Milk Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Baking Process and Thermal Death Inactivation Parameters of a 4-Serovar Salmonella Cocktail	26
Effect of Far-UVC Light (222 nm) on Spoilage Microbes and Shelf Life of Sweetpotatoes	26