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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Impact of the Probiotic Organism Megasphaera elsdenii on Escherichia coli O157:H7 Prevalence in Finishing Cattle	198
Dietetics Student Perceptions of Food Safety Communication to Vulnerable Populations: An International Study	96
Analysis of Method Performance for Quantitative Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in Queso Fresco Cheese	93
Evaluation of 16s Long Read Metabarcoding for Characterizing the Microbiome and Salmonella Contamination of Retail Poultry Meat	78
Influence of Free Chlorine and Contact Time on the Reduction of Salmonella Cross-Contamination of Tomatoes in a Model Flume System	68
Poultry Processing Interventions Reduce Salmonella Serovar Complexity on Postchill Young Chicken Carcasses as Determined by Deep Serotyping	67
Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli and Their Antibiotic Resistance Patterns in Dairy Farms and Their Microbial Ecosystems	62
Detection of Campylobacter jejuni from Fresh Produce: Comparison of Culture- and PCR-based Techniques, and Metagenomic Approach for Analyses of the Microbiome before and after Enrichment	50
Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii, Hepatitis E Virus, and Salmonella Antibodies in Meat Juice Samples from Pigs at Slaughter in Switzerland	47
Process Humidity Affects Salmonella Lethality at the Surface and Core of Impingement-Cooked Meat and Poultry Products	46
Genomic Diversity and Potential Transmission and Persistence of Salmonella in the Cambodian Vegetable Supply Chain	45
Real-time Detection of Foodborne Pathogens and Biofilm in the Food Processing Environment with Bactiscan, A Macro-scale Fluorescence Device	45
Effect of Nitrite-Embedded Packaging Film on Growth of Listeria monocytogenes in Nitrite-free and Conventionally-cured Bologna Sausage	42
Prevalence of Histamine-Forming Bacteria in Two Kinds of Salted Fish at Town Markets of Guangdong Province of South China	39
Simultaneous Discrimination of Cereulide-Producing Bacillus cereus and Psychrotolerant B. cereus Group by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry	38
Use of Whole Genome Sequencing by the Federal Interagency Collaboration for Genomics for Food and Feed Safety in the United States	36
Detection of Staphylococcus Enterotoxin sea and seb in Milk Samples by Duplex Droplet Digital PCR	34
Wholegenome sequencing as the gold standard approach for control of Listeria monocytogenes in the food chain	33
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	33
Food Safety Practices of Food Handlers in China and their Correlation with Self-reported Foodborne Illness	32
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	32
Costs of Overly Broad Recalls	29
A lanthanide-based high-sensitivity fluorescence method for the on-site rapid detection of thermostable direct hemolysin of Vibrio parahaemolyticus	28
Effect of Hydrophobic or Hydrophilic Characteristics of B. cereus Spores on Their Resistance to Detergents	28
Updated Assessment of State Food Safety Laws for Norovirus Outbreak Prevention in the United States	28

Isolation of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli from the Surfaces of Beef Carcasses in Slaughterhouses in Japan