OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Dairy Science is 40. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of spring feeding strategy on pasture productivity, sward quality, and animal performance within intensive pasture-based dairy systems	178
Effects of systemic or uterine endotoxin challenge in Holstein cows at 5 or 40 days postpartum on clinical responses, uterine and systemic inflammation, and milk yield	169
Effects of offering free-choice hay for the first 5 days postpartum on productivity, serum inflammatory markers, gut permeability, and colon gene expression in fresh dairy cows	109
Taking the diet of cows into consideration in designing payments to reduce enteric methane emissions on dairy farms	87
Recording antimicrobial use on Irish dairy farms: Barriers and facilitators to using technology and sharing data	87
Veterinary herd health management—Experiences and perceptions among Swedish dairy cattle veterinarians	82
Genomic inbreeding coefficients using imputation genotypes: Assessing the effect of ancestral genotyping in Holstein-Friesian dairy cows	76
Selection of antibiotic-resistant bacterial populations in the dairy cow gut following intramuscular ceftiofur treatment for metritis	75
INTERPRETIVE SUMMARIES, OCTOBER 2024	65
Genomic characterization of autozygosity and recent inbreeding trends in all major breeds of US dairy cattle	59
Signatures of selection reveal candidate genes involved in production traits in Chinese crossbred buffaloes	56
Transforming dairy for a difference: Key factors influencing electronic word-of-mouth intention and purchase intention for social enterprise dairy products	54
Replacing soybean meal with microalgae biomass in diets with contrasting carbohydrate profiles can reduce in vitro methane production and improve short-chain fatty acid production	54
Milk replacer galacto-oligosaccharide inclusion rates for neonatal calves	53
The effects of dexamethasone administration on physiological, behavioral, and production parameters in dairy cows after a difficult calving	53
Increased adipose tissue lipolysis in dairy cows with fatty liver is associated with enhanced autophagy activity	52
Association between genomic daughter pregnancy rates and reproductive parameters in Holstein dairy cattle	52
Quantifying and mapping digital dermatitis–associated bacteria in lesion and nonlesion body sites and dairy farm environment	50
Development of ruminating behavior in Holstein calves between birth and 30 days of age	49
Review of equations to predict methane emissions in dairy cows from milk fatty acid profiles and their application to commercial dairy farms	49
Interaction of DGAT1 polymorphism, parity, and acetate supplementation on feeding behavior, milk synthesis, and plasma metabolites	49
Effect of milk replacer feeding rate and frequency of preweaning dairy calves in the southeastern United States: Glucose metabolism	48
Onboarding dairy farm employees: Improving the new employee experience	48
Modeling missing pedigree with metafounders and validating single-step genomic predictions in a small dairy cattle population with a great influence of foreign genetics	47
Circulating progesterone concentrations and pregnancy outcomes in high-producing lactating dairy cows treated with human chorionic gonadotropin on day 2 of the estrus cycle	46

Prevention of osteoporosis in ovariectomized mice with calcium yak caseinate	45
Effect of ensiled alpha-amylase–enabled corn grain at 2 concentrations in the diet on lactation performance, chewing activity, ruminal fermentation, nutrient digestibility, and nitrogen partition of d	45
Associations between measures of network centrality and Johne's disease among dairy herds in Ontario, Canada	45
Effects of prepartum supplementation of β-carotene on colostrum and calves	44
Characterization of Bifidobacterium bifidum growth and metabolism on whey protein phospholipid concentrate	44
Milk production and methane emissions in dairy cows on production or exercise pastures with an automatic milking system	43
Cellular proliferation and apoptosis in Staphylococcus aureus–infected heifer mammary glands experiencing rapid mammary gland growth	43
The effects of Lactobacillus hilgardii 4785 and Lactobacillus buchneri 40788 on the microbiome, fermentation, and aerobic stability of corn silage ensiled for various times	42
Genome-wide association study and functional analyses for clinical and subclinical ketosis in Holstein cattle	42
Feed additives for methane mitigation: Assessment of feed additives as a strategy to mitigate enteric methane from ruminants—Accounting; How to quantify the mitigating potential of using antimethanoge	42
Machine learning methods for genomic prediction of cow behavioral traits measured by automatic milking systems in North American Holstein cattle	41
Effect of feeding fresh forage plantain (Plantago lanceolata) or ryegrass-based pasture on methane emissions, total-tract digestibility, and rumen fermentation of nonlactating dairy cows	41
The effect of twice daily 3-nitroxypropanol supplementation on enteric methane emissions in grazing dairy cows	41
Novel ways to use sensor data to improve mastitis management	41
Graduate Student Literature Review: Potential use of HSP70 as an indicator of heat stress in dairy cows—A review	40
Effects of colostrum feeding on the mRNA abundance of genes related to toll-like receptors, key antimicrobial defense molecules, and tight junctions in the small intestine of neonatal dairy calves	40
Can meteorological data improve the short-term prediction of individual milk yield in dairy cows?	40