OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Welfare is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Physiological and behavioural assessments of stress levels in owls housed at owl cafes	48
A One Welfare approach to identify socioeconomic vulnerability in families during investigations into companion animal abuse in Pinhais, Brazil	30
A comparison of the welfare of free-ranging native pony herds on common land with those used for conservation grazing in the UK	29
Equipment-related wounds and associated risk factors in working equids of the Oromia national regional state in Ethiopia	25
Electric shock control of farmed animals: Welfare review and ethical critique	20
An assessment of animal welfare impacts in wild Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) management	20
Dogs: Understanding Your Very Best Friend J Bradshaw (2021). Published by Andersen Press, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA, UK. 128 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1839130878). Price £6.15.	19
Socialising kitties: A quantitative survey of US cat owner attitudes towards kitten and adult cat socialisation programmes	18
The construction of a measure of behavioural complexity as a potential individual-based welfare indicator and its theoretical validation	17
Guinea pig meat production in South America: Reviewing existing practices, welfare challenges, and opportunities	14
Working animal welfare and their multidimensional roles on livelihood improvement in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals - Richard Twine (2024). Published by Sydney University Press, Sydney, Australia. ISBN (paperback) 9781743328996. Price £19.59 (paperback)	13
Working donkey welfare assessment and owner survey in Meru County, Kenya	13
Defending and refining the Birch et al. (2021) precautionary framework for animal sentience	13
The relationships between attitudes, personal characteristics and behaviour of stockpeople on dairy goat farms	13
Assessment, causes and consequences of short opercula in laboratory-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)	11
Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles, Second Edition - Edited by C Warwick, PC Arena and GM Burghart (2023). Published by Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 638 pages eBook (ISBN: 978-3-030-86012-7), Hard	11
Pekin ducks are motivated to lay in their preferred nest substrate	11
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China LPY Chee (2021). Published by Duke University Press, 905 W Main Street, Durham, NC 27701, USA. 288 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1478014041). Price £20.	10
Standardised scoring system to assess the welfare of Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)	10
Perceptions of barriers to providing good cat care in Malaysian clinical practices	10
Estimating global numbers of farmed fishes killed for food annually from 1990 to 2019	10
Welfare of fish now included in EU strategy for aquaculture	10
Key Questions in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: A Study and Revision Guide PA Rees (2022). Published by CABI Publishing, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, UK. 256 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-17	9
Humane stunning or stun/killing in the slaughter of wild-caught finfish: The scientific evidence base	9

Pathophysiology of penetrating captive-bolt stunning of horses	9
The cost of research: Lasting effects of capture, surgery and muscle biopsy on brown bear (Ursus arctos) movement and physiology	9
Review of Tail Biting in Pigs – a comprehensive guide to its aetiology, impact and wider significance in pig management - Edited by Keelin O’Driscoll and Anna Valros, Published by Brill \| Wage	9
“I want them to live their best lives:” A qualitative exploration of owner experiences with walking their cats	9
Owners’ everyday interactions with their horse: Pain-related issues and those of veterinary concern	9
Welfare of dairy cows in Kosovo and intervention thresholds for selected welfare indicators as suggested by farmers and veterinarians – ERRATUM	8
Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) C Kirchhelle (2021). Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Crinan Street, London N1 9XW, UK. 297 pages Hardback (ISBN: 978-3030627	8
Contrafreeloading and its influencing factors in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): Implications for their feeding and welfare	7
Support for the ‘Pets as Ambassadors’ hypothesis in men: Higher animal empathy in Australian pet-owners vs non-owners and farmers	7
Public attitudes toward the use of technology to create new types of animals and animal products	7
‘No one cares about the animal like me.’ Indian veterinarians’ experiences of improving animal welfare through Continuing Professional Development	7
Welfare of extensively managed Swedish Gotland ponies	7
Using a Delphi method to estimate the relevance of indicators for the assessment of shelter dog welfare	6
The selection, training and welfare of post-racing thoroughbreds and other breeds used in Equine Assisted Services	6
Understanding the Bird of Prey N Fox (2022). Published by Cambria Publishing, Llandeilo, UK. 554 pages Hardback (ISBN: 9780957679139). Price £120.00.	6
Review of the evidence of sentience in cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans	6
Exercise as a welfare strategy? Insights from horse (Equus caballus) owners in the UK	6
Animal welfare organisations that rehome dogs from southern and eastern Europe to Germany: A homepage content analysis	6
Treated Like Animals: Improving the Lives of the Creatures we Own, Eat and Use - By A Simmons (2023). Published by Pelagic Publishing, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU, UK. 272 pages Hardback (ISBN:	6
Welfare and management practices of free-ranging yaks (Bos grunniens) in Bhutan	6
Small mammal owners’ experiences of housing challenges and animal welfare: A COM-B and word frequency analysis	6
Cattle Welfare in Dairy and Beef Systems: A New Approach to Global Issues - Edited by Marie Haskell (2023). Animal Welfare Series, Volume 23. Published by Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 431 pages. ISBN	6
Waste not, want not: Value chain stakeholder attitudes to surplus dairy calf management in Australia	6
One welfare: Linking poverty, equid ownership and equid welfare in the brick kilns of India	6
A follow-up study of exercise test results and severity of brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome signs in brachycephalic dogs	6
Is pet ownership associated with values and attitudes towards animals?	5
Standard methods for marking caudate amphibians do not impair animal welfare over the short term: An experimental approach – CORRIGENDUM	5
As a mature scientific discipline animal welfare must be subject to debate and opinion	5
Behaviour and welfare of African lion (Panthera leo) cubs used in contact wildlife tourism	5
Is a mounted award ceremony in equestrian sport relevant to animal welfare?	5
Disturbed areas promote more parental care and less nesting preference in females of broad-snouted caiman (Caiman latirostris) – ADDENDUM	5
Pigs: Welfare in Practice I Camerlink (2020). Published by 5m Publishing, 8 Smithy Wood Drive, Sheffield S35, 1QN, UK. 166 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1789181050). Price £ 14.95.	5
Less activity means improved welfare? How pair housing influences pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) behaviour	5
A survey of handling and transportation of UK farmed deer	5
On the use of body mass measures in severity assessment in laboratory passerine birds	5
A systematic approach to defining and verifying descriptors used in the Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of sows	5
Needle-free intradermal vaccination, an opportunity to improve commercial pig welfare	5
Effect of dog-owner interaction on post-operative pain perception and stress of dogs and variability in their behavioural patterns	5
Companion animal adoption and relinquishment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Households with children at greatest risk of relinquishing a cat or dog	4
Physical and behavioural health of dogs belonging to homeless people	4
Visitor effects on the welfare of captive Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) during the pandemic lockdowns	4
Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices?	4
AWF volume 31 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	4
Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare	4
Living the good life? A systematic review of behavioural signs of affective state in the domestic horse (Equus caballus) and factors relating to quality of life. Part 2: Horse-human interaction	4
Cat management in an unregulated shelter environment: Relationship between care provision and cat health in Hong Kong	4
Welfare concerns associated with captive lions (Panthera leo) and the implications for commercial lion farms in South Africa	4
Neutralisation techniques used by defendants charged with animal welfare offences in Finland	4
A review of welfare indicators for sea turtles undergoing rehabilitation, with emphasis on environmental enrichment	4
Contactless body temperature assessment for signalling humane endpoints in a mouse model of sepsis	3

Public concern for animal welfare and its correlation with ethical ideologies after coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in China	3
The effect of animal shelter sound on cat behaviour and welfare	3
Horses are worthy of care: Horse sector participants’ attitudes towards animal sentience, welfare, and well-being	3
Global distribution and gap analysis of equine housing research: The findings so far and where to go next	3
Using the conditioned place preference paradigm to assess hunger in dairy calves: Preliminary results and methodological issues	3
A preliminary survey on the occurrence of barbering in laboratory mice in Germany	3
Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals, Third Edition - Edited by M Dyson, P Jirkof, J Lofgren, E Nunamaker and D Pang (2023). Published by Elsevier, 230 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10169, USA.	3
Can an animal welfare risk assessment tool identify livestock at risk of poor welfare outcomes?	3
Efficacy of pain management for cattle castration: A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Misleading Claim by Ben-Ami et al. (2014)	3
Evaluation of the longer-term impacts on working practices of veterinarians in India after attending a canine surgical neutering training programme	3
Evaluation of stress markers in horses during hippotherapy sessions in comparison to being ridden by beginners	3
Condition of bob veal calves on arrival at an abattoir in Ohio	3
Book review of Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles, Second Edition – Editors’ Note	3
Non-invasive assessment of positive affective state using infra-red thermography in rats	3
Individual variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) repertoires of abnormal behaviour	3
Improving hen welfare on cage-free egg farms in Asia: Egg producers’ perspectives	3
Tamoxifen exacerbates morbidity and mortality in male mice receiving medetomidine anaesthesia	3
Practical Canine Behaviour: For Veterinary Nurses and Technicians, Second Edition S Hedges (2021). Published by CABI, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, UK. 312 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1789	3
Development of a novel primate welfare assessment tool for research macaques	3
Evaluation of a commercial electrical stunning method for farmed grower saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) using non-invasive EEG measurements	3
Laying the groundwork for reptile welfare assessment in zoos and private keeping: A literature-based proposal	3