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Journal of Dairy Research
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Journal of Dairy Research

0022-0299

Published by: Cambridge University Press

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-dairy-research

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Animal Science and Veterinary 64 81 96 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 110
Documents by Best Scientists*: 116
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 6
SCIMAGO H-index: 91
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.41
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Journal of Dairy Research?

The journal mostly deals with topics like Food science, Animal science, Casein, Chromatography and Lactation. The journal focuses on Food science as well as the interrelated topic of Composition (visual arts). The studies in Animal science featured incorporate elements of Udder and Milk yield.

Research in Udder tackled falls within the umbrella of Mastitis. The Mastitis works featured in Journal of Dairy Research incorporate elements from Veterinary medicine and Somatic cell count. Calcium and Micelle are some topics wherein Casein research discussed in the journal have an impact.

Whey protein is a primary topic of Chromatography research in Journal of Dairy Research. It facilitates discussions on Lactation that incorporate concepts from other fields like Endocrinology, Lactose and Internal medicine. Specifically, studies on Enzyme are prevalent in the Biochemistry works discussed.

  • Food science (33.16%)
  • Animal science (18.15%)
  • Casein (15.07%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Proteinases in normal bovine milk and their action on caseins. (517 citations)
    1. The Determination of the nitrogen distribution in milk (435 citations)
  • Review of the progress of dairy science: bovine mastitis: milk compositional changes and related diagnostic tests. (357 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Journal of Dairy Research:

The journal articles mainly tackle studies in Food science, Casein, Chromatography, Lactation and Animal science. The most cited publications connects the study in Food science with the closely related areas of Composition (visual arts). The most cited publications facilitate discussions on Animal science that incorporate concepts from other fields like Mastitis and Milk yield.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Enzyme
  • Internal medicine
  • Biochemistry

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Journal of Dairy Research tackles a plethora of topics, such as Animal science, Lactation, Mastitis, Food science and Somatic cell count. The research on Animal science featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Composition (visual arts), Ice calving and Milk yield. In it, Offspring, Herd, Insemination and Milk production are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Lactation research.

Mastitis research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Streptomycin, Andrology, Staphylococcus and Intensive care medicine. The presented studies in Ingredient fall within the purview of Food science but it also intertwines with topics in Tandem mass tag. While Somatic cell count is the focus of Journal of Dairy Research, it also provided insights into the studies of Segmentation, Udder, California mastitis test and Fuzzy clustering.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Milk fat globule membrane in infant nutrition: a dairy industry perspective. (3 citations)
  • Challenges and opportunities for quantifying greenhouse gas emissions through dairy cattle research in developing countries. (3 citations)
  • The role of the European small ruminant dairy sector in stabilising global temperatures: lessons from GWP* warming-equivalent emission metrics (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Journal of Dairy Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Patrick F. Fox (64 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rupert M. Bruckmaier (51 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Christopher H. Knight (49 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Margaret L. Green (39 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • F. H. Dodd (38 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Journal of Dairy Research (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Reading (369 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Institut national de la recherche agronomique (171 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University College Cork (119 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Milan (61 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (58 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 12.31% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 3.51% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.02% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.05% of all publications and 68.42% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Methodological terminology and definitions for research and discussion of cow-calf contact systems.

    Janja Sirovnik;Kerstin Barth;Daiana de Oliveira;Sabine Ferneborg

    (2020)
    83 Citations
  • The Internet of Things enhancing animal welfare and farm operational efficiency

    Craig Michie;Ivan Andonovic;Christopher Davison;Andrew Hamilton

    (2020)
    69 Citations
  • Biomarkers of fitness and welfare in dairy cattle: healthy productivity

    Maya Zachut;Marcela Šperanda;André M. de Almeida;Gianfranco Gabai

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • Systems for evaluation of welfare on dairy farms.

    Angela Krueger;Jenifer Cruickshank;Erminio Trevisi;Massimo Bionaz

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • Rumen function in goats, an example of adaptive capacity

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Play and social behaviour of calves with or without access to their dam and other cows.

    Susanne Waiblinger;Kathrin Wagner;Edna Hillmann;Kerstin Barth

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Sensing solutions for improving the performance, health and wellbeing of small ruminants.

    Gerardo Caja;Andreia Castro-Costa;Ahmed A K Salama;Joan Oliver

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Point-of-care tests for bovine clinical mastitis: what do we have and what do we need?

    Francisco B Malcata;P Theo Pepler;Emily L O'Reilly;Nicola Brady

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • The human-animal relationship in dairy animals.

    Fabio Napolitano;Andrea Bragaglio;Emilio Sabia;Francesco Serrapica

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Exosome cargo in milk as a potential marker of cow health.

    Monica Colitti;Sandy Sgorlon;Bruno Stefanon

    (2020)
    21 Citations

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