Livestock Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Livestock Science is 20. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of social hierarchy on short-term group-housed sow gestation and reproductive performance88
Effect of sex and birth weight on the performance, microbiome, immune response and colostrum intake of piglets40
Microencapsulated sodium butyrate on the intestinal integrity of broilers challenged with Eimeria spp.33
Antioxidant networks and the microbiome as components of efficiency in dairy cattle30
Editorial Board29
Identification of genomic regions associated with reproductive longevity in the Rubia Gallega beef cattle breed using a censored threshold model29
Intraperitoneal injection of β-glucan during the suckling period improved the intestinal health of newly weaned rabbits by enhancing immune responses28
Milking performance and plant specialized metabolites in the milk of goats fed silage from willow (Salix acmophylla) irrigated with saline water28
Semen quality parameters including metabolites, sperm production traits and fertility in young Norwegian Red AI bulls27
Preslaughter stress and beef quality in relation to slaughter transport of cattle25
Scaling factor assessment in single-step GBLUP evaluations for small genotyped populations: A case study on Iranian Holstein cattle25
Effect of age and dietary crude protein level on nitrogen excretion in dairy heifers24
Effect of microencapsulated organic acids on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood profile, fecal gas emission, fecal microbial, and meat-carcass grade quality of growing-finishing pigs23
Doses of orange (Citrus sinensis) essential oil for Nellore steers fed with a forage-based diet23
Thermal images to predict the thermal comfort index for Girolando heifers in the Brazilian semiarid region22
Nutritional protocols that alter ruminal fermentation and nutrient disappearance to increase marbling precursors in Nellore cattle22
Feeding behavior in nursery pigs affected with gastric ulcers21
Stylosanthes silage as an alternative to reduce the protein concentrate in diets for finishing beef cattle21
Livestock breeding, conservation and genomics in Brazil: Who, when, where, and what20
Comparative analysis of growth and development characteristics of two Dezhou donkey strains20
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