OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Poultry Science is 42. 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
Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium uses T6SS to promote bacterial adaptability and enhance its survival of niches in broiler chickens	233
Synergistic effects of oral inoculation with a recombinant Lactobacillus plantarum NC8 strain co-expressing interleukin-2 and interleukin-17B on the efficacy of the infectious bronchitis vaccine in ch	149
The impact of early-life conditions on visual discrimination abilities in free-ranging laying hens	113
Research Note: Morphine influences circulating and tissue concentrations of met-enkephalin and proenkephalin (PENK) expression and plasma concentrations of corticosterone in chickens	104
Effect of Gan Cao (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch) polysaccharide on growth performance, immune function, and gut microflora of broiler chickens	102
Omega-3 fatty acids mitigate histological changes and modulate the expression of ACACA, PFK1 and ET-1 genes in broiler chickens under environmental stress: a pulmonary artery, cardiomyocyte and liver	100
Values shared by journals of learned societies, associations and scientific institutions in animal science	94
Effects of duck circovirus on immune function and secondary infection of Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli	88
Automated chick gender determination using optical coherence tomography and deep learning	82
Dietary ethylenediamine dihydroiodide mitigated Escherichia coli O78-induced immune and intestinal damage of ducks via suppression of NF-κB signal	75
In vivo pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study and cutoff of florfenicol against Riemerella anatipestifer in ducks	74
Soybean replacement value of canola meal as measured by growth performance and feed efficiency in broiler chickens: Insights from a meta-analysis	71
A succession of pulmonary microbiota in broilers during the growth cycle	67
Influence of Brassica spp. rapeseed and canola meal, and supplementation of bioactive compound (AITC) on growth performance, intestinal-permeability, oocyst shedding, lesion score, histomorphology, an	66
Comparing methods for catching and crating broiler chicken flocks: A trade-off between animal welfare, ergonomics and economics	65
Fermented bamboo powder activates gut odorant receptors, and promotes intestinal health and growth performance of dwarf yellow-feathered broiler chickens	65
Amino acid digestibility and metabolizable energy of soybean meal of different origins in cecectomized laying hens	64
Comparative genome-wide association study on body weight in Chinese native ducks using four models	64
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry: an effective approach for predicting broiler chicken body composition	63
Effects of feeding strategies on eggshell quality of laying hens during late laying period	63
Arbutin alleviates Mycoplasma gallinarum-induced damage caused by pulmonary fibrosis via the JAK2/STAT3 pathway	58
Influence of dietary crude protein on growth performance and apparent and standardized ileal digestibility of amino acids in corn-soybean meal-based diets fed to broilers	58
Corticosterone stage-dependently inhibits progesterone production presumably via impeding the cAMP-StAR cascade in granulosa cells of chicken preovulatory follicles	55
Heat stress in broilers of liver injury effects of heat stress on oxidative stress and autophagy in liver of broilers	54
Intestinal microbiota of layer hens and its association with egg quality and safety	54

Dietary hawthorn-leaves flavonoids improves ovarian function and liver lipid metabolism in aged breeder hens	53
Dietary honokiol supplementation improves antioxidant capacity, enhances intestinal health, and modulates cecal microbial composition and function of broiler chickens	51
Effect of blending encapsulated essential oils and organic acids as an antibiotic growth promoter alternative on growth performance and intestinal health in broilers with necrotic enteritis	50
Impact of fenbendazole resistance in Ascaridia dissimilis on the economics of production in turkeys	50
Effect of different energy, protein levels and their interaction on productive performance, egg quality, digestibility coefficient of laying Japanese quails	49
Promotion effect of angelica sinensis extract on angiogenesis of chicken preovulatory follicles in vitro	49
Collagen adhesin protein and necrotic enteritis B-like toxin as biomarkers for early diagnosis of necrotic enteritis in commercial broiler chickens	48
Investigation of standardized ileal amino acid digestibility of rice protein meal in sexed broilers	47
Transcriptomic and metabolomic-based revelation of the effect of fresh corn extract on meat quality of Jingyuan chicken	47
Effect of intramuscular fat level on carcass composition, physicochemical characteristics, texture, and microstructure of breast muscle of broiler chickens	47
Novel insights into the regulation of LATS2 kinase in prehierarchical follicle development via the Hippo pathway in hen ovary	47
An enhancement algorithm for head characteristics of caged chickens detection based on cyclic consistent migration neural network	45
Describing the relationships among meat quality traits in domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) populations	45
The effects of cyclosporine A or activated charcoal co-administration on the pharmacokinetics of enrofloxacin in chickens	44
Tolerance and safety evaluation of L-glutamic acid, N,N-diacetic acid as a feed additive in broiler diets	44
Research Note: Methods in detecting signs of life after gaseous stun in broilers	42
Research Note: Longitudinal fecal shedding patterns and characterization of Salmonella enterica and mcr-positive Escherichia coli in meat-type ducks raised in an open-house system	42