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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Analysis of Method Performance for Quantitative Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Queso Fresco Cheese	147
Dietetics Student Perceptions of Food Safety Communication to Vulnerable Populations: An International Study	97
Determination of Toxic Heavy Metals and Essential Minerals in Commercial Soft Drinks in Bangladesh: Implications for Human Health	77
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	66
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	60
Serovar Diversity and Cellular State Modulate Salmonella Response to Antimicrobial Treatments	59
Rifampicin− Resistant Salmonella and Shiga–toxin−Producing Escherichia coli Exhibit Comparable Lactic Acid and Chlorine Stress Phenotypes to Wild-Type Strains	58
Real-time Detection of Foodborne Pathogens and Biofilm in the Food Processing Environment with Bactiscan, A Macro-scale Fluorescence Device	53
Use of a Novel UV-C Tunnel with PAA Misting to Reduce Escherichia coli on Carrots (Daucus carota)	48
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	45
Evaluation of 16s Long Read Metabarcoding for Characterizing the Microbiome and Salmonella Contamination of Retail Poultry Meat	45
Impact of the Probiotic Organism Megasphaera elsdenii on Escherichia coli O157:H7 Prevalence in Finishing Cattle	45
Costs of Overly Broad Recalls	40
Optimizing Salmonella Recovery From Commercial Poultry Environmental Samples With Selective Preenrichment	40
Simultaneous Discrimination of Cereulide-Producing Bacillus cereus and Psychrotolerant B. cereus Group by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry	39
Genomic Diversity and Potential Transmission and Persistence of Salmonella in the Cambodian Vegetable Supply Chain	38
Detection of Staphylococcus Enterotoxin sea and seb in Milk Samples by Duplex Droplet Digital PCR	35
Food Safety Practices of Food Handlers in China and their Correlation with Self-reported Foodborne Illness	34
Effect of Far-UVC Light (222 nm) on Spoilage Microbes and Shelf Life of Sweetpotatoes	33
Wholegenome sequencing as the gold standard approach for control of Listeria monocytogenes in the food chain	32
Antibiofilm Properties of a Plantaricin J-Containing Culture Supernatant from Lactiplantibacillus plantarum AV3: Potential for Inhibiting and Reducing Bacterial Biofilms on Food-Contact Surfaces	30
Mature Listeria monocytogenes Biofilms Exhibit Reduced Susceptibility to Sanitizers – Relevance to the (Leafy Green) Fresh Food Supply Chain	30
Microbial Contamination and Associated Risk Factors from Slaughter to Retail: Forward-Tracing of Meat in the Pork Value Chain in Uganda	30
Validation of High Milk Protein Chocolate Chip Cookie Baking Process and Thermal Death Inactivation Parameters of a 4-Serovar Salmonella Cocktail	28
Poultry Processing Interventions Reduce Salmonella Serovar Complexity on Postchill Young Chicken Carcasses as Determined by Deep Serotyping	27

Unmasking Hidden Gluten: Evaluating the Compliance of Gluten-Free Products and Consumer Exposure in Lebanon	27
Surveillance of Enterobacteriaceae, Escherichia coli, and STEC in Food from the Piedmont Region (Italy): Results of Official Control Activities (2022–2024)	26
Effect of Nitrite-Embedded Packaging Film on Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in Nitrite-free and Conventionally-cured Bologna Sausage	26
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Their Antibiotic Resistance Patterns in Dairy Farms and Their Microbial Ecosystems	26