Winners have been selected in the third annual Journal of Dairy Science (JDS) Most-cited Awards, according to Elsevier, a provider of technical and medical information products, and the American Dairy Science Association. Papers published in JDS throughout 2010 were eligible.
Awards are conferred in each of four sections comprising the journal’s content: Dairy Foods; Physiology and Management; Nutrition, Feeding and Calves; and Genetics and Breeding.“The number of citations a published study receives is an indicator of its importance to its research community,” says Roger D. Shanks, editor-in-chief of JDS and professor emeritus of the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois — Urbana. He notes the purpose of the awards is to “recognize contributors to JDS whose work is significantly impacting research and the dairy industry.”
Two of the four authors live outside the U.S. Award-winning papers receiving the highest number of citations in each of four sections include:
Section: Dairy Foods
Madureira, A. R., T. Tavares, A. M. P. Gomes, M. E. Pintado, and F. X. Malcata. 2010. Invited review: Physiological properties of bioactive peptides obtained from whey proteins.
Section: Physiology and Management
Ospina, P. A., D. V. Nydam, T.Stokol, and T. R. Overton. 2010. Evaluation of nonesterified fatty acids and β-hydroxybutyrate in transition dairy cattle in the northeastern United States: Critical thresholds for prediction of clinical diseases.
Section: Nutrition, Feeding and Calves
Rotz, C. A., F. Montes, and D. S. Chianese. 2010. The carbon footprint of dairy production systems through partial life cycle assessment.
Section: Genetics and Breeding
Aguilar, I., I. Misztal, D. L. Johnson, A. Legarra, S. Tsuruta, and T. J. Lawlor. 2010. Hot topic: A unified approach to utilize phenotypic, full pedigree, and genomic information for genetic evaluation of Holstein final score. PD
—From Elsevier and the American Dairy Science Association news release
