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Animal Science and Veterinary
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2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
81
Citations
27525
World Ranking
68
National Ranking
5

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
  • 2016 - UFAW Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Animal Welfare Science, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare
  • 2009 - Honory Fellow of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)

Overview

Donald M. Broom is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Veterinary science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have contributed substantially to subfields including Small Animals, Genetics, Ecology, Social Psychology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

Their work covers a range of topics related to Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Human-Animal Interaction Studies, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock, Zoonotic Diseases and Public Health, as well as Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Effects of human-animal relationship on animal productivity and welfare, 2020, Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology
  • Post COVID-19: a solution scan of options for preventing future zoonotic epidemics, 2021, Biological Reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A method for assessing sustainability, with beef production as an example, 2021, Biological Reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • How Should We Study Animal Consciousness Scientifically?, 2022, Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • The Sustainability of Keeping Birds as Pets: Should Any Be Kept?, 2021, Animals

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Patricia Tatemoto
  • James L. N. Wood
  • Shawn Peng
  • Daniel Mota-Rojas
  • Agustín Orihuela

Their publications commonly appear in these venues:

  • Animal Sentience
  • Animals
  • Biological Reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Journal of Consciousness Studies
  • Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology

Donald M. Broom has authored a book titled Broom and Fraser's domestic animal behaviour and welfare published by CABI eBooks in 2021.

The scientist's work has been recognized with awards including the UFAW Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Animal Welfare Science from the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare in 2016 and an Honorary Fellowship of the International Society for Applied Ethology awarded in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Stress and animal welfare

    Donald M. Broom;K. G. Johnson

  • Farm animal behaviour and welfare

    Andrew Ferguson Fraser;Donald M Broom

  • Animal welfare: concepts and measurement.

    D. M. Broom

  • Indicators of poor welfare.

    D.M. Broom

  • Assessing welfare: short-term responses

    Donald M. Broom;Ken G. Johnson

  • The impact of genetic selection for increased milk yield on the welfare of dairy cows.

    P. A. Oltenacu;D. M. Broom

  • Domestic animal behaviour and welfare

    Donald M. Broom;Andrew Ferguson Fraser

  • The scientific assessment of animal welfare

    D.M. Broom

  • Review of the Community Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic agents and Antimicrobial Resistance in the European Union in 2005

    Bo Algers;Harry Blokhuis;Martin Wierup;A. Osterhaus

  • A History of Animal Welfare Science

    Donald M. Broom

  • BEM-ESTAR ANIMAL: CONCEITO E QUESTÕES RELACIONADAS REVISÃO

    D.M. Broom;C.F.M. Molento

  • Sustainable, efficient livestock production with high biodiversity and good welfare for animals

    D. M. Broom;F. A. Galindo;F. A. Galindo;E. Murgueitio

  • A Review of the Aetiology and Pathology of Leg Weakness in Broilers in Relation to Welfare

    R.H. Bradshaw;R.D. Kirkden;D.M. Broom

  • Physiological and reproductive correlates of behavioural strategies in female domestic pigs

    Michael Mendl;Adroaldo J. Zanella;Donald M. Broom

  • The relationships between social behaviour of dairy cows and the occurrence of lameness in three herds.

    F. Galindo;D.M. Broom

  • Timing and causes of piglet mortality in alternative and conventional farrowing systems.

    J. N. Marchant;A. R. Rudd;M. T. Mendl;D. M. Broom

  • Behaviour and welfare in relation to pathology

    Donald Maurice Broom

  • Scientific Opinion on the public health hazards to be covered by inspection of meat (swine)

    Olivier Andreoletti;Herbert Budka;Sava Buncic;John D Collins

  • Effects of the eyefluke, Diplostomum spathaceum, on the behaviour of dace (Leuciscus leuciscus).

    A.E. Crowden;D.M. Broom

  • Measuring zoo animal welfare: theory and practice.

    Sonya P. Hill;Sonya P. Hill;Donald M. Broom

  • Animal welfare defined in terms of attempts to cope with the environment

    D.M. Broom

  • Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) on a request from the Commission on porcine brucellosis (Brucella suis)

    B. Algers;H.J. Blokhuis;A. Bøtner;D.M. Broom

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Mendl
Michael Mendl University of Bristol
Bo Algers
Bo Algers Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Adroaldo J. Zanella
Adroaldo J. Zanella Universidade de São Paulo
Harry J. Blokhuis
Harry J. Blokhuis Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Stephen J. G. Hall
Stephen J. G. Hall University of Lincoln
Dirk U. Pfeiffer
Dirk U. Pfeiffer City University of Hong Kong
Ronald J. Roberts
Ronald J. Roberts University of Idaho
Anette Bøtner
Anette Bøtner University of Copenhagen
Toby G Knowles
Toby G Knowles University of Bristol

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