OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Animal Welfare is 14. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
A One Welfare approach to identify socioeconomic vulnerability in families during investigations into companion animal abuse in Pinhais, Brazil	49
Equipment-related wounds and associated risk factors in working equids of the Oromia national regional state in Ethiopia	33
A comparison of the welfare of free-ranging native pony herds on common land with those used for conservation grazing in the UK	33
An assessment of animal welfare impacts in wild Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) management	32
Physiological and behavioural assessments of stress levels in owls housed at owl cafes	21
Electric shock control of farmed animals: Welfare review and ethical critique	20
Dogs: Understanding Your Very Best Friend J Bradshaw (2021). Published by Andersen Press, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA, UK. 128 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1839130878). Price £6.15.	20
The construction of a measure of behavioural complexity as a potential individual-based welfare indicator and its theoretical validation	19
Working donkey welfare assessment and owner survey in Meru County, Kenya	16
Pekin ducks are motivated to lay in their preferred nest substrate	16
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals - Richard Twine (2024). Published by Sydney University Press, Sydney, Australia. ISBN (paperback) 9781743328996. Price £19.59 (paperback)	16
Health and Welfare of Captive Reptiles, Second Edition - Edited by C Warwick, PC Arena and GM Burghart (2023). Published by Springer, Cham, Switzerland. 638 pages eBook (ISBN: 978-3-030-86012-7), Hard	15
Defending and refining the Birch et al. (2021) precautionary framework for animal sentience	14
Standardised scoring system to assess the welfare of Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)	14