OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Welfare is 3. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Physiological and behavioural assessments of stress levels in owls housed at owl cafes	38
A One Welfare approach to identify socioeconomic vulnerability in families during investigations into companion animal abuse in Pinhais, Brazil	23
A comparison of the welfare of free-ranging native pony herds on common land with those used for conservation grazing in the UK	21
Equipment-related wounds and associated risk factors in working equids of the Oromia national regional state in Ethiopia	17
An assessment of animal welfare impacts in wild Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) management	16
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.	15
Electric shock control of farmed animals: Welfare review and ethical critique	15
Assessment, causes and consequences of short opercula in laboratory-reared Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)	13
The relationships between attitudes, personal characteristics and behaviour of stockpeople on dairy goat farms	12
Defending and refining the Birch et al. (2021) precautionary framework for animal sentience	12
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals - Richard Twine (2024). Published by Sydney University Press, Sydney, Australia. ISBN (paperback) 9781743328996. Price £19.59 (paperback)	11
Working animal welfare and their multidimensional roles on livelihood improvement in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Pekin ducks are motivated to lay in their preferred nest substrate	10
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	10
Guinea pig meat production in South America: Reviewing existing practices, welfare challenges, and opportunities	10
The construction of a measure of behavioural complexity as a potential individual-based welfare indicator and its theoretical validation	10
Welfare of fish now included in EU strategy for aquaculture	9
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China LPY Chee (2021). Published by Duke University Press, 905 W Main Street, Durham, NC 27701, USA. 288 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1478014041). Price £20.	9
Perceptions of barriers to providing good cat care in Malaysian clinical practices	9
Estimating global numbers of farmed fishes killed for food annually from 1990 to 2019	9
The cost of research: Lasting effects of capture, surgery and muscle biopsy on brown bear (Ursus arctos) movement and physiology	8
Review of Tail Biting in Pigs – a comprehensive guide to its aetiology, impact and wider significance in pig management - Edited by Keelin O’Driscoll and Anna Valros, Published by Brill \| Wage	7
Welfare of dairy cows in Kosovo and intervention thresholds for selected welfare indicators as suggested by farmers and veterinarians – ERRATUM	7
Humane stunning or stun/killing in the slaughter of wild-caught finfish: The scientific evidence base	7
Contrafreeloading and its influencing factors in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): Implications for their feeding and welfare	6

Welfare of extensively managed Swedish Gotland ponies	6
Determination of static space requirements for finishing bulls based on image analysis	6
Waste not, want not: Value chain stakeholder attitudes to surplus dairy calf management in Australia	6
Cattle Welfare in Dairy and Beef Systems: A New Approach to Global Issues - Edited by Marie Haskell (2023). Animal Welfare Series, Volume 23. Published by Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 431 pages. ISBN	6
Support for the ‘Pets as Ambassadors’ hypothesis in men: Higher animal empathy in Australian pet-owners vs non-owners and farmers	6
Using a Delphi method to estimate the relevance of indicators for the assessment of shelter dog welfare	6
Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920-2000) C Kirchhelle (2021). Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Crinan Street, London N1 9XW, UK. 297 pages Hardback (ISBN: 978-3030627	6
The selection, training and welfare of post-racing thoroughbreds and other breeds used in Equine Assisted Services	6
Is pet ownership associated with values and attitudes towards animals?	6
Key Questions in Animal Behaviour and Welfare: A Study and Revision Guide PA Rees (2022). Published by CABI Publishing, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, UK. 256 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-17	6
Public attitudes toward the use of technology to create new types of animals and animal products	6
‘No one cares about the animal like me.’ Indian veterinarians’ experiences of improving animal welfare through Continuing Professional Development	6
Treated Like Animals: Improving the Lives of the Creatures we Own, Eat and Use - By A Simmons (2023). Published by Pelagic Publishing, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU, UK. 272 pages Hardback (ISBN:	6
Understanding the Bird of Prey N Fox (2022). Published by Cambria Publishing, Llandeilo, UK. 554 pages Hardback (ISBN: 9780957679139). Price £120.00.	6
Attitudes of Turkish veterinary students towards farm animal welfare	5
A survey of handling and transportation of UK farmed deer	5
A follow-up study of exercise test results and severity of brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome signs in brachycephalic dogs	5
One welfare: Linking poverty, equid ownership and equid welfare in the brick kilns of India	5
Exercise as a welfare strategy? Insights from horse (Equus caballus) owners in the UK	5
Welfare and management practices of free-ranging yaks (Bos grunniens) in Bhutan	5
Review of the evidence of sentience in cephalopod molluscs and decapod crustaceans	5
Is a mounted award ceremony in equestrian sport relevant to animal welfare?	4
Less activity means improved welfare? How pair housing influences pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) behaviour	4
Needle-free intradermal vaccination, an opportunity to improve commercial pig welfare	4
Visitor effects on the welfare of captive Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) during the pandemic lockdowns	4
Digital Livestock Technologies as boundary objects: Investigating impacts on farm management and animal welfare	4
On the use of body mass measures in severity assessment in laboratory passerine birds	4
As a mature scientific discipline animal welfare must be subject to debate and opinion	4
Standard methods for marking caudate amphibians do not impair animal welfare over the short term: An experimental approach – CORRIGENDUM	4
Welfare concerns associated with captive lions (Panthera leo) and the implications for commercial lion farms in South Africa	4
Effect of dog-owner interaction on post-operative pain perception and stress of dogs and variability in their behavioural patterns	4
A systematic approach to defining and verifying descriptors used in the Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of sows	4
Pigs: Welfare in Practice I Camerlink (2020). Published by 5m Publishing, 8 Smithy Wood Drive, Sheffield S35, 1QN, UK. 166 pages Paperback (ISBN: 978-1789181050). Price £ 14.95.	4
Behaviour and welfare of African lion (Panthera leo) cubs used in contact wildlife tourism	4
Physical and behavioural health of dogs belonging to homeless people	4
Cat management in an unregulated shelter environment: Relationship between care provision and cat health in Hong Kong	3
Companion animal adoption and relinquishment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Households with children at greatest risk of relinquishing a cat or dog	3
Contactless body temperature assessment for signalling humane endpoints in a mouse model of sepsis	3
AWF volume 31 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	3
Expanding perspectives and understanding relational potential: Are mutually beneficial human-animal relationships compatible with current animal agricultural practices?	3
Individual variation in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) repertoires of abnormal behaviour	3
Non-invasive assessment of positive affective state using infra-red thermography in rats	3
A preliminary survey on the occurrence of barbering in laboratory mice in Germany	3
Neutralisation techniques used by defendants charged with animal welfare offences in Finland	3
Advances in Pig Welfare, First Edition Edited by M Špinka (2018). Published by Woodhead Publishing, The Officer's Mess Business Centre, Royston Road, Duxford CB22 4QH, UK. 506 pages Hardback (ISBN: 97	3
Welfare of broiler chickens reared under two different types of housing	3
A review of welfare indicators for sea turtles undergoing rehabilitation, with emphasis on environmental enrichment	3
Living the good life? A systematic review of behavioural signs of affective state in the domestic horse (Equus caballus) and factors relating to quality of life. Part 2: Horse-human interaction	3