OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Animal is 36. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	277
Effectiveness of virtual fencing in a mountain environment and its impact on heifer behaviour and welfare	210
Production costs, economic viability, and risks associated with compost bedded pack, freestall, and drylot systems in dairy farms	203
Diurnal variation of milk fatty acids in early-lactation Holstein cows with and without hyperketonemia	184
Editorial Board	127
Review: Production factors affecting poultry carcass and meat quality attributes	102
Short communication: Prevalence of deleterious variants causing recessive disorders in Italian Chianina, Marchigiana and Romagnola cattle	101
Review: Environment of the ovulatory follicle: modifications and use of biotechnologies to enhance oocyte competence and increase fertility in cattle	77
Using dynamic modelling to enhance the assessment of the beef water footprint	73
Thiamine modulates intestinal morphological structure and microbiota under subacute ruminal acidosis induced by a high-concentrate diet in Saanen goats	73
Telling tails: a closer look into the hanging tail posture of pigs in relation to their emotional state expressed during a novelty test in isolation	70
Short communication: Temporal profiles of colostrum and milk haptoglobin and substance P in early lactation multiparous Holstein cows	66
Effects of medium-chain fatty acid supplementation on performance and rumen fermentation of lactating Holstein dairy cows	66
Whole-genome resequencing reveals genetic structure and introgression in Pudong White pigs	66
Animal board invited review: Quantification of resilience in farm animals	62
Resolving and functional analysis of RNA editing sites in sheep ovaries and associations with litter size	58
Novel pathways linked to the expression of temperament in Merino sheep: a genome-wide association study	57
Review: Environmental enrichment builds functional capacity and improves resilience as an aspect of positive welfare in production animals	55
Review: Towards an integrated concept of animal welfare	52
Effects of group size on agonistic interactions in dairy cows: a descriptive study	51
Review: Ecosystem service indicators in insect farming − a novel One Health perspective	51
Probing the effects of dietary selenised glucose on the selenium concentration, quality, and antioxidant activity of eggs and production performances of laying hens	49
Application of milk mid-infrared spectroscopy for prediction of energy balance and associated traits in Fleckvieh and Holstein Friesian dairy cows	48
Selective breeding as a mitigation tool for methane emissions from dairy cattle	48
Effects of lactic acid bacteria-fermented formula milk supplementation on colonic microbiota and mucosal transcriptome profile of weaned piglets	47

From the biochemical pieces to the nutritional puzzle: using meta-reactions in teaching and research	47
Effect of postweaning feed intake on performance, intestinal morphology, and the probability of diarrhoea in piglets	44
Early addition of enzyme-treated soybean in the diet improves amino acid absorption and protein digestibility by promoting digestive enzyme activity in broilers	43
Association between the prion protein genotype and animal performance traits in a large multibreed sheep population	43
Editorial: Animal welfare from a transdisciplinary perspective	41
Review: How the efficiency of utilization of essential amino acids can be applied in dairy cow nutrition	41
Animal board invited review: Dietary transition from animal to plant-derived foods: Are there risks to health?	39
Estimation of the genetic parameters of sheep growth traits based on machine vision acquisition	39
Longitudinal pattern of growth performance and feeding behaviour in pigs fed varying dietary crude protein levels and categorised by final feed efficiency	37
Animal board invited review: A biocultural perspective of animal farming systems in Europe	37
Predicting feed efficiency of Angus steers using the gastrointestinal microbiome	36