OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Occurrence of Aflatoxin B1, deoxynivalenol and zearalenone in feeds in China during 2018–2020	119
Dietary fiber in poultry nutrition and their effects on nutrient utilization, performance, gut health, and on the environment: a review	107
Advances in fatty acids nutrition in dairy cows: from gut to cells and effects on performance	94
Microalgal-based feed: promising alternative feedstocks for livestock and poultry production	90
Lactobacillus reuteri-derived extracellular vesicles maintain intestinal immune homeostasis against lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses in broilers	88
Phenolic compounds as natural feed additives in poultry and swine diets: a review	84
Invited review: Remediation strategies for mycotoxin control in feed	79
Dietary oregano essential oil supplementation improves intestinal functions and alters gut microbiota in late-phase laying hens	77
Regulation of gene expression in chickens by heat stress	77
Review of the impact of heat stress on reproductive performance of sheep	72
Effects of full replacement of dietary fishmeal with insect meal from Tenebrio molitor on rainbow trout gut and skin microbiota	70
Effects of age on immune function in broiler chickens	58
Poultry gut health – microbiome functions, environmental impacts, microbiome engineering and advancements in characterization technologies	54
Digestibility and metabolism of copper in diets for pigs and influence of dietary copper on growth performance, intestinal health, and overall immune status: a review	53
Inhibition of African swine fever virus in liquid and feed by medium-chain fatty acids and glycerol monolaurate	53
Nutritional impact of mycotoxins in food animal production and strategies for mitigation	51
Resistant starch: Implications of dietary inclusion on gut health and growth in pigs: a review	50
Progress of amino acid nutrition for diet protein reduction in poultry	50
Implication and challenges of direct-fed microbial supplementation to improve ruminant production and health	48
Rumen microbiome structure and metabolites activity in dairy cows with clinical and subclinical mastitis	44
Progress towards reduced-crude protein diets for broiler chickens and sustainable chicken-meat production	43
Gut health, stress, and immunity in neonatal dairy calves: the host side of host-pathogen interactions	43
Effects of supplemental xylanase and xylooligosaccharides on production performance and gut health variables of broiler chickens	42
Dietary resveratrol attenuation of intestinal inflammation and oxidative damage is linked to the alteration of gut microbiota and butyrate in piglets challenged with deoxynivalenol	41
Dietary inclusion of a partially defatted black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larva meal in low fishmeal-based diets for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	41

Assessing the relationship between the rumen microbiota and feed efficiency in Nellore steers	41
MiR-146a-5p targeting SMAD4 and TRAF6 inhibits adipogenensis through TGF-β and AKT/mTORC1 signal pathways in porcine intramuscular preadipocytes	40
Impact of sugar beet pulp and wheat bran on serum biochemical profile, inflammatory responses and gut microbiota in sows during late gestation and lactation	40
Short-chain fatty acids can improve lipid and glucose metabolism independently of the pig gut microbiota	38
The health benefits of selenium in food animals: a review	38
Bacteriophage cocktail supplementation improves growth performance, gut microbiome and production traits in broiler chickens	38
Ferroptosis is involved in deoxynivalenol-induced intestinal damage in pigs	37
Recent advances in immunoassays and biosensors for mycotoxins detection in feedstuffs and foods	36
Growth efficiency, intestinal biology, and nutrient utilization and requirements of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae compared to monogastric livestock species: a review	36
Selenium deficiency induces spleen pathological changes in pigs by decreasing selenoprotein expression, evoking oxidative stress, and activating inflammation and apoptosis	36
Effect of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Bacillus subtilis on fermentation, dynamics of bacterial community and their functional shifts of whole-plant corn silage	36