Livestock Science

Papers
(The H4-Index of Livestock Science is 20. 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.)
ArticleCitations
The effect of social hierarchy on short-term group-housed sow gestation and reproductive performance77
Effect of sex and birth weight on the performance, microbiome, immune response and colostrum intake of piglets68
The course of pregnancy changes general metabolism and affects ruminal epithelium activity pattern in Zebu beef heifers52
Thermal images to predict the thermal comfort index for Girolando heifers in the Brazilian semiarid region35
Effect of microencapsulated organic acids on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood profile, fecal gas emission, fecal microbial, and meat-carcass grade quality of growing-finishing pigs30
Preslaughter stress and beef quality in relation to slaughter transport of cattle27
Stylosanthes silage as an alternative to reduce the protein concentrate in diets for finishing beef cattle27
Antioxidant networks and the microbiome as components of efficiency in dairy cattle26
Microencapsulated sodium butyrate on the intestinal integrity of broilers challenged with Eimeria spp.26
Identification of genomic regions associated with reproductive longevity in the Rubia Gallega beef cattle breed using a censored threshold model25
Semen quality parameters including metabolites, sperm production traits and fertility in young Norwegian Red AI bulls25
Editorial Board25
Intraperitoneal injection of β-glucan during the suckling period improved the intestinal health of newly weaned rabbits by enhancing immune responses24
Scaling factor assessment in single-step GBLUP evaluations for small genotyped populations: A case study on Iranian Holstein cattle23
Doses of orange (Citrus sinensis) essential oil for Nellore steers fed with a forage-based diet22
Milking performance and plant specialized metabolites in the milk of goats fed silage from willow (Salix acmophylla) irrigated with saline water22
Feeding behavior in nursery pigs affected with gastric ulcers21
Effect of age and dietary crude protein level on nitrogen excretion in dairy heifers21
Comparative analysis of growth and development characteristics of two Dezhou donkey strains21
Effects of different feeder and floor space allowances on growth performance and welfare aspects in nursery pigs21
Performance, carcass characteristics, and meat quality of goat kids supplemented with inulin20
Effects of dietary supplementation with different levels of selenium yeast on growth performance, carcass characteristics, antioxidant capacity, and meat quality of Tan sheep20
Effect of high stocking density and dietary nano-zinc on growth performance, carcass yield, meat quality, feathering score, and footpad dermatitis in broiler chickens20
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