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Animal Science and Veterinary
India
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
55
Citations
12579
World Ranking
441
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in India Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in India Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in India Leader Award

Overview

Amlan Kumar Patra is affiliated with the West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences in India. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on agronomy and crop science, animal science and zoology, genetics, plant science, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including:

  • Ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology
  • Reproductive physiology in livestock
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Effects of environmental stressors on livestock
  • Animal nutrition and physiology
  • Meat and animal product quality
  • Moringa oleifera research and applications

Their recent papers include:

  • Heat stress on microbiota composition, barrier integrity, and nutrient transport in gut, production performance, and its amelioration in farm animals, 2021, Journal of Animal Science and Technology
  • The functionality of probiotics in aquaculture: An overview, 2021, Fish & Shellfish Immunology
  • Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine for the Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19: A Fiction, Hope or Hype? An Updated Review, 2021, Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
  • Tissue Bioaccumulation and Toxicopathological Effects of Cadmium and Its Dietary Amelioration in Poultry-a Review, 2021, Biological Trace Element Research
  • Review: Methanogens and methane production in the digestive systems of nonruminant farm animals, 2020, animal

Frequent co-authors of Amlan Kumar Patra are:

  • R. Puchała
  • A.L. Goetsch
  • Adam Cieślak
  • M. Szumacher-Strabel
  • Hirut Yirga

The scientist publishes regularly in several academic journals, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Animals
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Tropical Animal Health and Production
  • Animal Feed Science and Technology
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Research

In addition to journal articles, Amlan Kumar Patra has contributed to book publications, including a title published by IntechOpen: "Animal Feed Science and Nutrition - Production, Health and Environment" in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Exploitation of dietary tannins to improve rumen metabolism and ruminant nutrition.

    Amlan K Patra;Jyotisna Saxena

  • A new perspective on the use of plant secondary metabolites to inhibit methanogenesis in the rumen

    Amlan K. Patra;Jyotisna Saxena

  • The functionality of probiotics in aquaculture: An overview.

    Mohamed T. El-Saadony;Mahmoud Alagawany;Amlan K. Patra;Indrajit Kar

  • Effects of Essential Oils on Methane Production and Fermentation by, and Abundance and Diversity of, Rumen Microbial Populations

    Amlan K. Patra;Zhongtang Yu

  • Rumen methanogens and mitigation of methane emission by anti-methanogenic compounds and substances

    Amlan Patra;Amlan Patra;Tansol Park;Minseok Kim;Zhongtang Yu

  • Effect of plant extracts on in vitro methanogenesis, enzyme activities and fermentation of feed in rumen liquor of buffalo

    A.K. Patra;D.N. Kamra;Neeta Agarwal

  • Dietary phytochemicals as rumen modifiers: a review of the effects on microbial populations

    Amlan K. Patra;Jyotisna Saxena

  • The effect and mode of action of saponins on the microbial populations and fermentation in the rumen and ruminant production.

    A. K. Patra;J. Saxena

  • Enteric methane mitigation technologies for ruminant livestock: a synthesis of current research and future directions.

    Amlan Kumar Patra

  • The effect of dietary fats on methane emissions, and its other effects on digestibility, rumen fermentation and lactation performance in cattle: A meta-analysis

    Amlan Kumar Patra

  • Methane emission by goats consuming diets with different levels of condensed tannins from lespedeza

    G. Animut;R. Puchala;A.L. Goetsch;A.K. Patra

  • Effects of Essential Oils on Rumen Fermentation, Microbial Ecology and Ruminant Production

    Amlan K. Patra

  • Dietary phytochemicals and microbes

    Amlan K. Patra

  • Ureases in the gastrointestinal tracts of ruminant and monogastric animals and their implication in urea-N/ammonia metabolism: a review.

    Amlan Kumar Patra;Amlan Kumar Patra;Jörg Rudolf Aschenbach

  • Methane emission by goats consuming different sources of condensed tannins

    G. Animut;R. Puchala;A.L. Goetsch;A.K. Patra

  • Effect of plant extracts on methanogenesis and microbial profile of the rumen of buffalo: a brief overview

    D. N. Kamra;A. K. Patra;P. N. Chatterjee;Ravindra Kumar

  • Different essential oils in diets of broiler chickens: 2. Gut microbes and morphology, immune response, and some blood profile and antioxidant enzymes

    Subrata Chowdhury;Guru Prasad Mandal;Amlan Kumar Patra;Pawan Kumar

  • An Overview of Antimicrobial Properties of Different Classes of Phytochemicals

    Amlan Kumar Patra

  • Effects of extracts of spices on rumen methanogenesis, enzyme activities and fermentation of feeds in vitro.

    Amlan Kumar Patra;Amlan Kumar Patra;Devki Nandan Kamra;Neeta Agarwal

  • Symposium review: The importance of the ruminal epithelial barrier for a healthy and productive cow.

    Jörg R. Aschenbach;Qendrim Zebeli;Amlan K. Patra;Gabriele Greco

  • Modulation of gastrointestinal barrier and nutrient transport function in farm animals by natural plant bioactive compounds - A comprehensive review.

    Amlan Kumar Patra;Amlan Kumar Patra;Salah Amasheh;Jörg Rudolf Aschenbach

  • Ascorbic acid, garlic extract and taurine alleviate cadmium-induced oxidative stress in freshwater catfish (Clarias batrachus).

    Puneet Kumar;Y. Prasad;A.K. Patra;R. Ranjan

  • Effects of vanillin, quillaja saponin, and essential oils on in vitro fermentation and protein-degrading microorganisms of the rumen

    Amlan K. Patra;Amlan K. Patra;Zhongtang Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Mahmoud Alagawany
Mahmoud Alagawany Zagazig University
Zhongtang Yu
Zhongtang Yu The Ohio State University
Jörg R. Aschenbach
Jörg R. Aschenbach Freie Universität Berlin
Arthur L. Goetsch
Arthur L. Goetsch American Institute for Economic Research
Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack
Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack Misr University for Science and Technology
Kuldeep Dhama
Kuldeep Dhama Indian Veterinary Research Institute
Youssef A. Attia
Youssef A. Attia King Abdulaziz University
Mahmoud A.O. Dawood
Mahmoud A.O. Dawood Kafrelsheikh University
T. Sahlu
T. Sahlu American Institute for Economic Research
Alexander N. Hristov
Alexander N. Hristov Pennsylvania State University

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