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D-Index
25
Citations
4496
World Ranking
2936
National Ranking
833

J.A. Hertl publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J.A. Hertl sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 41 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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J.A. Hertl D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where J.A. Hertl sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 25 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

J.A. Hertl is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences, as well as medicine. Their work addresses multiple subfields including agronomy and crop science, genetics, small animals, food science, and hematology.

The scientist's research prominently focuses on topics related to milk quality and mastitis in dairy cows, animal disease management and epidemiology, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, animal behavior and welfare studies, and vector-borne infectious diseases, including viral infections and vectors.

The frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • PLoS ONE
  • Veterinary Medicine and Science
  • Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
  • JDS Communications

J.A. Hertl has collaborated regularly with several coauthors in the field. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Yrjö T. Gröhn
  • Loren W. Tauer
  • Y.H. Schukken
  • F.L. Welcome
  • Karun Kaniyamattam

Their recent papers cover a range of topics related to veterinary and agricultural sciences:

  • Cost benefit analysis of automatic lameness detection systems in dairy herds: A dynamic programming approach, 2020, Preventive Veterinary Medicine
  • Is Salmonella enterica shared between wildlife and cattle in cattle farming areas? An 11-year retrospective study in Tokachi district, Hokkaido, Japan, 2021, Veterinary Medicine and Science
  • A prospective cohort study to identify clinical diagnostic and prognostic markers of primary immune thrombocytopenia in dogs, 2024, Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine
  • Molecular detection of Coxiella burnetii in raw meat samples collected from different abattoirs in districts Kasur and Lahore of Punjab, Pakistan, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Economics of reducing antibiotic usage for pathogen-specific clinical mastitis through genomic selection and disease management, 2022, Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Best Publications

  • Risk factors for post partum ovarian dysfunction in high producing dairy cows in Belgium: a field study.

    G. Opsomer;Y.T. Gröhn;J. Hertl;M. Coryn

  • Effect of Pathogen-Specific Clinical Mastitis on Milk Yield in Dairy Cows

    Y. T. Grohn;David J. Wilson;R. N. Gonzalez;J. A. Hertl

  • Effect of Diseases on the Culling of Holstein Dairy Cows in New York State

    Y.T. Gröhn;S.W. Eicker;V. Ducrocq;J.A. Hertl

  • The cost of different types of lameness in dairy cows calculated by dynamic programming.

    E. Cha;J.A. Hertl;D. Bar;Y.T. Gröhn

  • The Cost of Generic Clinical Mastitis in Dairy Cows as Estimated by Using Dynamic Programming

    D. Bar;L.W. Tauer;G. Bennett;R.N. González

  • The Association Between Previous 305-day Milk Yield and Disease in New York State Dairy Cows

    Y.T. Gröhn;S.W. Eicker;J.A. Hertl

  • The cost and management of different types of clinical mastitis in dairy cows estimated by dynamic programming

    E. Cha;D. Bar;J.A. Hertl;L.W. Tauer

  • Effect of Clinical Mastitis on the Lactation Curve: A Mixed Model Estimation Using Daily Milk Weights

    D.J. Wilson;R.N. González;J. Hertl;H.F. Schulte

  • Effects of clinical mastitis caused by gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and other organisms on the probability of conception in New York State Holstein dairy cows.

    J.A. Hertl;Y.T. Gröhn;J.D. G. Leach;D. Bar

  • Optimizing replacement of dairy cows: modeling the effects of diseases.

    Y.T Gröhn;P.J Rajala-Schultz;H.G Allore;M.A DeLorenzo

  • Effects of repeated gram-positive and gram-negative clinical mastitis episodes on milk yield loss in Holstein dairy cows

    Y.H. Schukken;J. Hertl;D. Bar;G.J. Bennett

  • The Association Between Cumulative Milk Yield, Days Open, and Days to First Breeding in New York Holstein Cows

    S.W. Eicker;Y.T. Gröhn;J.A. Hertl

  • Pathogen-specific effects on milk yield in repeated clinical mastitis episodes in Holstein dairy cows

    J.A. Hertl;Y.H. Schukken;F.L. Welcome;L.W. Tauer

  • Effect of repeated episodes of generic clinical mastitis on milk yield in dairy cows.

    D. Bar;Y.T. Gröhn;G. Bennett;R.N. González

  • Effect of pathogen-specific clinical mastitis on herd life in two New York State dairy herds.

    Y. T. Grohn;R. N. Gonzalez;David J. Wilson;J. A. Hertl

  • The effect of recurrent episodes of clinical mastitis caused by gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and other organisms on mortality and culling in Holstein dairy cows.

    J.A. Hertl;Y.H. Schukken;D. Bar;G.J. Bennett

  • Effects of Repeated Episodes of Generic Clinical Mastitis on Mortality and Culling in Dairy Cows

    D. Bar;Y.T. Gröhn;G. Bennett;R.N. González

  • Analysis of correlated continuous repeated observations: modelling the effect of ketosis on milk yield in dairy cows

    Yrjö T. Gröhn;John J. McDermott;Ynte H. Schukken;Julia A. Hertl

  • Modeling the effect of a disease on culling: an illustration of the use of time-dependent covariates for survival analysis.

    Y.T. Gröhn;V. Ducrocq;J.A. Hertl

  • Effect of early lactation milk yield on reproductive disorders in dairy cows.

    Gröhn Yt;Hertl Ja;Harman Jl

  • The effect of repeated episodes of bacteria-specific clinical mastitis on mortality and culling in Holstein dairy cows.

    E. Cha;J.A. Hertl;Y.H. Schukken;L.W. Tauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Yrjö T. Gröhn
Yrjö T. Gröhn Cornell University
Ynte H. Schukken
Ynte H. Schukken Wageningen University & Research
Loren W. Tauer
Loren W. Tauer Cornell University
Ruben N. Gonzalez
Ruben N. Gonzalez Cornell University
Gary J. Bennett
Gary J. Bennett McGill University
David J. Wilson
David J. Wilson Utah State University
John J. McDermott
John J. McDermott International Food Policy Research Institute
Lorin D. Warnick
Lorin D. Warnick Cornell University
Vincent Ducrocq
Vincent Ducrocq University of Paris-Saclay
Edward J. Dubovi
Edward J. Dubovi Cornell University

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