OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology is 33. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Insights into the role of major bioactive dietary nutrients in lamb meat quality: a review	148
Effect of the dietary supplementation with extracts of chestnut wood and grape pomace on performance and jejunum response in female and male broiler chickens at different ages	130
Establishment of a chicken intestinal organoid culture system to assess deoxynivalenol-induced damage of the intestinal barrier function	103
Five glutathione S-transferase isozymes played crucial role in the detoxification of aflatoxin B1 in chicken liver	89
Dietary fibers with low hydration properties exacerbate diarrhea and impair intestinal health and nutrient digestibility in weaned piglets	87
Dietary ferulic acid supplementation enhances antioxidant capacity and alleviates hepatocyte pyroptosis in diquat challenged piglets	66
Insights into the interplay between gut microbiota and lipid metabolism in the obesity management of canines and felines	65
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Embelin alleviates weaned piglets intestinal inflammation and barrier dysfunction via PCAF/NF-κB signaling pathway in intestinal epithelial cells	58
Dietary supplementation with 0.4% L-arginine between days 14 and 30 of gestation enhances NO and polyamine syntheses and water transport in porcine placentae	58
Dietary supplemental coated essential oils and organic acids mixture improves growth performance and gut health along with reduces Salmonella load of broiler chickens infected with Salmonella Enteriti	57
Rumen microbial degradation of bromoform from red seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformis) and the impact on rumen fermentation and methanogenic archaea	53
Dietary bile acid supplementation in weaned piglets with intrauterine growth retardation improves colonic microbiota, metabolic activity, and epithelial function	51
Profiling of N6-methyladenosine methylation in porcine longissimus dorsi muscle and unravelling the hub gene ADIPOQ promotes adipogenesis in an m6A-YTHDF1–dependent manner	51
Dietary L-leucine supplementation improves ruminal fermentation parameters and epithelium development in fattening Angus beef cattle	50
Pangenome and multi-tissue gene atlas provide new insights into the domestication and highland adaptation of yaks	49
Impacts of zinc caproate supplementation on growth performance, intestinal health, anti-inflammatory activity, and Zn homeostasis in weaned piglets challenged with Escherichia coli K88	48
β-Hydroxybutyrate-induced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) release mediated innate inflammatory response in bovine mammary epithelial cells by inhibiting autophagy	48
Correction: Maternal supply of cysteamine alleviates oxidative stress and enhances angiogenesis in porcine placenta	47
Metabolomic fingerprinting of pig seminal plasma identifies in vivo fertility biomarkers	47
Comprehensive analysis of coding and non-coding RNA transcriptomes related to hypoxic adaptation in Tibetan chickens	46
Enhancement of porcine in vitro embryonic development through luteolin-mediated activation of the Nrf2/Keap1 signaling pathway	46
Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals the dynamic process and novel markers in porcine spermatogenesis	42
Correction: Dietary bile acids supplementation decreases hepatic fat deposition with the involvement of altered gut microbiota and liver bile acids profile in broiler chickens	41
The circular RNA circCPE regulates myoblast development by sponging miR-138	41
Interactions between maternal parity and feed additives drive the composition of pig gut microbiomes in the post-weaning period	41

Improving the accuracy of genomic prediction in dairy cattle using the biologically annotated neural networks framework	38
Dietary supplementation of zinc oxide modulates intestinal functionality during the post-weaning period in clinically healthy piglets	36
Dietary methionine deficiency stunts growth and increases fat deposition via suppression of fatty acids transportation and hepatic catabolism in Pekin ducks	35
Lysine 2-hydroxyisobutyrylation levels determined adipogenesis and fat accumulation in adipose tissue in pigs	35
Implications of vitamin D for flesh quality of grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella): antioxidant ability, nutritional value, sensory quality, and myofiber characteristics	34
Porcine jejunal-derived extracellular vesicles participate in the regulation of lipid metabolism	33
A promising resilience parameter for breeding: the use of weight and feed trajectories in growing pigs	33
Curcumin attenuates ochratoxin A and hypoxia co-induced liver injury in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) by dual targeting endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis via reducing ROS content	33
Sertoli cell and spermatogonial development in pigs	33