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Animal Science and Veterinary
UK
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
76
Citations
16165
World Ranking
106
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Honory Fellow of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)

Overview

Alistair Lawrence is affiliated with Scotland's Rural College in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of veterinary science, with particular attention to subfields such as small animals, genetics, social psychology, ecology, and general health professions.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics involving animal behavior and welfare studies, human-animal interaction studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, agriculture sustainability and environmental impact, hermeneutics and narrative identity, aging, elder care and social issues, as well as health, medicine, and society.

Among recent publications attributed to Alistair Lawrence's collaborative environment are the following papers:

  • "The neuroscience of positive emotions and affect: Implications for cultivating happiness and wellbeing," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "Prioritization of Farm Animal Welfare Issues Using Expert Consensus," 2020, Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • "The Human Affectome," 2023, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "A consensus on the definition of positive animal welfare," 2025, Biology Letters
  • "Negative play contagion in calves," 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alistair Lawrence include:

  • Sarah M. Brown (13 publications)
  • Vincent Bombail (9 publications)
  • Simone Meddle (8 publications)
  • Emma Tivey (7 publications)
  • Jessica Martin (6 publications)

Common publication venues where their work appears include:

  • F1000Research (4 publications)
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (3 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science (2 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (2 publications)

In recognition of their contributions, Alistair Lawrence was awarded the Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • Assessing the 'whole animal': a free choice profiling approach

    Françoise Wemelsfelder;Tony E.A. Hunter;Michael T. Mendl;Alistair B. Lawrence

  • Housing system, milk production, and zero-grazing effects on lameness and leg injury in dairy cows.

    M. J. Haskell;L. J. Rennie;V. A. Bowell;M. J. Bell

  • Investigating the behavioural and physiological indicators of neonatal survival in pigs

    E.M. Baxter;E.M. Baxter;S. Jarvis;R.B. D’Eath;D.W. Ross

  • A review of behavioral factors involved in the development and continued performance of stereotypic behaviors in pigs.

    Alistair Lawrence;E. M. Terlouw

  • The accumulation of skin lesions and their use as a predictor of individual aggressiveness in pigs

    Simon P. Turner;Mark J. Farnworth;Ian M.S. White;Sue Brotherstone

  • The spontaneous qualitative assessment of behavioural expressions in pigs: first explorations of a novel methodology for integrative animal welfare measurement

    F Wemelsfelder;EA Hunter;Michael T Mendl;AB Lawrence

  • The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig I: biological factors

    K. M D Rutherford;E. M. Baxter;R. B. D'Eath;S. P. Turner

  • Food restriction as a cause of stereotypic behaviour in tethered gilts

    M. C. Appleby;Alistair Lawrence

  • Influences of feeding level and physical restriction on development of stereotypies in sows

    E. M C Terlouw;Alistair Lawrence;A. W. Illius

  • 'Freedom from hunger' and preventing obesity: the animal welfare implications of reducing food quantity or quality

    Richard B. D'Eath;Bert J. Tolkamp;Ilias Kyriazakis;Alistair B. Lawrence

  • Ewe-lamb bonding behaviours at birth are affected by maternal undernutrition in pregnancy

    Cathy M. Dwyer;Alistair B. Lawrence;Stephen C. Bishop;Mitch Lewis

  • The effect of environment on behaviour, plasma cortisol and prolactin in parturient sows.

    Alistair Lawrence;JC Petherick;K. A. McLean;LA Deans

  • A review of the behavioural and physiological adaptations of hill and lowland breeds of sheep that favour lamb survival

    Cathy M. Dwyer;Alistair B. Lawrence

  • The welfare implications of large litter size in the domestic pig II: management factors

    E. M. Baxter;K. M D Rutherford;R. B. D'Eath;G. Arnott

  • Programming the offspring of the pig by prenatal social stress: neuroendocrine activity and behaviour

    Susan Jarvis;Christine Moinard;Sheena K. Robson;Emma Baxter

  • Qualitative Behavioural Assessment of emotionality in pigs.

    Kenneth M.D. Rutherford;Ramona D. Donald;Alistair B. Lawrence;Françoise Wemelsfelder

  • Effect of group size on feeding behaviour, social behaviour, and performance of growing pigs using single-space feeders

    Birte L. Nielsen;Alistair B. Lawrence;Colin T. Whittemore

  • Variability in the expression of maternal behaviour in primiparous sheep: Effects of genotype and litter size

    CM Dwyer;Alistair Lawrence

  • Injurious tail biting in pigs: How can it be controlled in existing systems without tail docking?

    R B D'Eath;G Arnott;S P Turner;T Jensen

  • Individual differences in behavioural responses of pigs exposed to non-social and social challenges

    Alistair Lawrence;E. M C Terlouw;Andrew Illius

  • Lameness prevalence and risk factors in organic and non-organic dairy herds in the United Kingdom.

    Kenneth M.D. Rutherford;Fritha M. Langford;Mhairi C. Jack;Lorna Sherwood

  • Naloxone prevents interruption of parturition and increases plasma oxytocin following environmental disturbance in parturient sows

    Alistair B Lawrence;J.Carol Petherick;Kirsty McLean;Colin L Gilbert

  • Measuring hunger in the pig using operant conditioning: The effect of food restriction

    A. B. Lawrence;M. C. Appleby;H. A. Macleod

Frequent Co-Authors

Marie J. Haskell
Marie J. Haskell Scotland's Rural College
Sandra A. Edwards
Sandra A. Edwards Newcastle University
Cathy M. Dwyer
Cathy M. Dwyer Scotland's Rural College
Michael Mendl
Michael Mendl University of Bristol
Simon P. Turner
Simon P. Turner Scotland's Rural College
Richard B. D’Eath
Richard B. D’Eath Scotland's Rural College
Françoise Wemelsfelder
Françoise Wemelsfelder Scotland's Rural College
Rainer Roehe
Rainer Roehe Scotland's Rural College
Andrew W. Illius
Andrew W. Illius University of Edinburgh
Peter Sandøe
Peter Sandøe University of Copenhagen

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