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Animal Science and Veterinary
Korea
2026

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
63
Citations
16885
World Ranking
263
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Korea Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Korea Leader Award

Overview

I. H. Kim is a researcher affiliated with Dankook University in South Korea, with a significant body of work in the Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans a diverse range of subfields, including Animal Science and Zoology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Small Animals, and Food Science.

The scientist's publications focus on several main topics, notably Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Meat and Animal Product Quality, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Rabbits: Nutrition, Reproduction, Health, Moringa oleifera research and applications, Gut microbiota and health, and Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with I. H. Kim include:

  • Vetriselvi Sampath
  • Sungbo Cho
  • Jae Hong Park
  • De Xin Dang
  • Shanmugam Sureshkumar

The researcher has contributed regularly to several publication venues, with multiple articles appearing in the following journals:

  • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Canadian Journal of Animal Science
  • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
  • Animals

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Laparoscopic vs Open Distal Gastrectomy for Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer," 2022, JAMA Surgery
  • "Asciminib in Newly Diagnosed Chronic Myeloid Leukemia," 2024, New England Journal of Medicine
  • "The Impact of Weaning Stress on Gut Health and the Mechanistic Aspects of Several Feed Additives Contributing to Improved Gut Health Function in Weanling Piglets-A Review," 2021, Animals
  • "Organic Acids Mixture as a Dietary Additive for Pigs-A Review," 2020, Animals
  • "Effects of grape seed extract on performance, immunity, antioxidant capacity, and meat quality in Pekin ducks," 2020, Poultry Science

I. H. Kim has also published a book titled The Development and Utilization of Novel Antibiotic Alternatives in 2022, released by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • Effects of multistrain probiotics on growth performance, apparent ileal nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics, cecal microbial shedding, and excreta odor contents in broilers

    Z. F. Zhang;I. H. Kim

  • Effect of Bacillus subtilis C-3102 spores as a probiotic feed supplement on growth performance, noxious gas emission, and intestinal microflora in broilers

    J. S. Jeong;I. H. Kim

  • Influence of probiotics in different energy and nutrient density diets on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, meat quality, and blood characteristics in growing-finishing pigs

    Unknown

  • Supplemental effect of probiotic Bacillus subtilis B2A on productivity, organ weight, intestinal Salmonella microflora, and breast meat quality of growing broiler chicks

    J. H. Park;I. H. Kim

  • Fish meal – nutritive value

    J. H. Cho;I. H. Kim

  • The effect of probiotic BioPlus 2B® on growth performance, dry matter and nitrogen digestibility and slurry noxious gas emission in growing pigs

    Y. Wang;J.H. Cho;Y.J. Chen;J.S. Yoo

  • Effects of chitooligosaccharide supplementation on performance, blood characteristics, relative organ weight, and meat quality in broiler chickens

    T. X. Zhou;Y. J. Chen;J. S. Yoo;Y. Huang

  • The effect of an herb extract mixture on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics and fecal noxious gas content in growing pigs

    L. Yan;Q.W. Meng;I.H. Kim

  • Effect of dietary Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis on the growth performance, antioxidant enzyme activity, nutrient digestibility, cecal microflora, excreta noxious gas emission, and breast meat quality of broiler chickens.

    J H Park;S I Lee;I H Kim

  • Effects of phytogenic feed additive on growth performance, digestibility, blood metabolites, intestinal microbiota, meat color and relative organ weight after oral challenge with Clostridium perfringens in broilers

    J.H. Cho;H.J. Kim;I.H. Kim

  • Effect of mannan oligosaccharides and fructan on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood profile, and diarrhea score in weanling pigs.

    P. Y. Zhao;J. H. Jung;I. H. Kim

  • Effects of feeding antibiotic-free creep feed supplemented with oligofructose, probiotics or synbiotics to suckling piglets increases the preweaning weight gain and composition of intestinal microbiota.

    S.B. Shim;M.W.A. Verstegen;I.H. Kim;O.S. Kwon

  • Influence of essential oil supplementation and diets with different nutrient densities on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics, meat quality and fecal noxious gas content in grower–finisher pigs

    Unknown

  • Effect of direct-fed microbial on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, fecal noxious gas emission, fecal microbial flora and diarrhea score in weanling pigs

    P.Y. Zhao;I.H. Kim

  • Effects of β-glucan and Bacillus subtilis on growth performance, blood profiles, relative organ weight and meat quality in broilers fed maize–soybean meal based diets

    Z.F. Zhang;T.X. Zhou;X. Ao;I.H. Kim

  • The Impact of Weaning Stress on Gut Health and the Mechanistic Aspects of Several Feed Additives Contributing to Improved Gut Health Function in Weanling Piglets—A Review

    Unknown

  • Recent advances in canola meal utilization in swine nutrition.

    G. Mejicanos;N. Sanjayan;I. H. Kim;C. M. Nyachoti

  • The effects of extrusion processing of carbohydrate sources on weanling pig performance.

    K Hongtrakul;R D Goodband;K C Behnke;J L Nelssen

  • Effect of diets with different energy and lysophospholipids levels on performance, nutrient metabolism, and body composition in broilers

    Unknown

  • Effects of Bacillus subtilis UBT-MO2 on growth performance, relative immune organ weight, gas concentration in excreta, and intestinal microbial shedding in broiler chickens

    Z.F. Zhang;J.H. Cho;I.H. Kim

  • Effects of Dietary Probiotic on Growth Performance, Nutrients Digestibility, Blood Characteristics and Fecal Noxious Gas Content in Growing Pigs

    Y. J. Chen;K. S. Son;B. J. Min;J. H. Cho

  • Effects of Dietary Bacillus-based Probiotic on Growth Performance, Nutrients Digestibility, Blood Characteristics and Fecal Noxious Gas Content in Finishing Pigs

    Y.J Chen;B.J. Min;J.H. Cho;O.S. Kwon

  • Effect of an herb extract mixture on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics, and fecal microbial shedding in weanling pigs

    L. Yan;Q.W. Meng;I.H. Kim

  • Effect of Bacillus subtilis, Clostridium butyricum and Lactobacillus acidophilus endospores on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, meat quality, relative organ weight, microbial shedding and excreta noxious gas emission in broilers

    M. M. Hossain;M. Begum;I. H. Kim

  • Effect of dietary supplementation with a probiotic (Enterococcus faecium) on production performance, excreta microflora, ammonia emission, and nutrient utilization in ISA brown laying hens

    J. W. Park;J. S. Jeong;S. I. Lee;I. H. Kim

  • Effects of probiotic supplementation in different energy and nutrient density diets on performance, egg quality, excreta microflora, excreta noxious gas emission, and serum cholesterol concentrations in laying hens

    Z. F. Zhang;I. H. Kim

  • Evaluation of FSP (Fermented Soy Protein) to Replace Soybean Meal in Weaned Pigs: Growth Performance, Blood Urea Nitrogen and Total Protein Concentrations in Serum and Nutrient Digestibility

    J. H. Cho;B. J. Min;Y. J. Chen;J. S. Yoo

  • Effect of dietary fermented garlic by Weissella koreensis powder on growth performance, blood characteristics, and immune response of growing pigs challenged with Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide.

    J. P. Wang;J. S. Yoo;H. D. Jang;J. H. Lee

  • The effects of dietary Houttuynia cordata and Taraxacum officinale extract powder on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, blood characteristics and meat quality in finishing pigs

    L. Yan;Q.W. Meng;I.H. Kim

  • Effects of phenyllactic acid on growth performance, intestinal microbiota, relative organ weight, blood characteristics, and meat quality of broiler chicks

    J. P. Wang;J. H. Lee;J. S. Yoo;J. H. Cho

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith C. Behnke
Keith C. Behnke Kansas State University
Charles M. Nyachoti
Charles M. Nyachoti University of Manitoba
Elijah G. Kiarie
Elijah G. Kiarie University of Guelph
Jae W. Park
Jae W. Park Oregon State University
Vito Laudadio
Vito Laudadio University of Bari Aldo Moro
Alireza Seidavi
Alireza Seidavi Islamic Azad University Rasht Branch
John R. Pluske
John R. Pluske Australasian Pork Research Institute
Donald H. Kropf
Donald H. Kropf Kansas State University

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