About the Journal of Dairy Science®

Aims and Scope

The official journal of the American Dairy Science Association®, Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) is the leading general dairy research journal in the world. JDS readers represent education, industry, and government agencies in more than 70 countries with interests in biochemistry, breeding, economics, engineering, environment, food science, genetics, microbiology, nutrition, pathology, physiology, processing, public health, quality assurance, and sanitation. JDS has been ranked number 2 in impact factor in the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science category of the Journal Citation Reports® 2010, published by Thomson Reuters, with an impact factor of 2.463.

Impact Factor

The Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) is the top-ranked dairy research journal in the world. In 2010, JDS was ranked by Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports® as number 2 of 49 journals in the Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category, with an Impact Factor of 2.463 (2009 data). JDS is also number 1 in the category by the new five-year Impact Factor, with a score of 2.942. The journal has now ranked in the top five of the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science category for nine straight years. The journal is also highly ranked in the Food Science and Technology category (11th of 118 journals for Impact Factor).

Eigenfactor™ Score

In 2010, the Journal of Dairy Science was ranked number 1 by Eigenfactor™ Score (2009 data) in the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science category. Eigenfactor™ Score is a metric that uses citing journal data from the entire Journal Citation Reports® file to reflect the prestige and citation influence of journals by considering scholarly literature as a network of journal-to-journal relationships. Recent volumes of JDS have grown to include more than 500 manuscripts and 5,000 pages per year from authors worldwide.

Bibliographic Information

2010 Volume 93
Number of issues per year: 12
Frequency: monthly
Print ISSN: 0022-0302: Online ISSN: 1525-3198
JDS is peer reviewed
Print Subscription Format: 8 1/2" × 11"; 300 line screen photographs; enamel, acid-free paper

Indexing and Abstracting

JDS is indexed and/or abstracted in Agricola, Biological Abstracts, Biological and Agricultural Index, BIOSIS Database, CABI Abstracts, Current Contents, Elsevier Bibliographic Databases, Infotrieve, ISI Web of Science, PubMed/Medline, and Scopus

JDS Participates in AGORA

JDS participates in the AGORA (Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture) program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. By participating in AGORA, the Journal of Dairy Science® is available, free of charge, to institutions in all Band I countries (countries defined by the World Bank as having a gross national product of up to $1,000, per capita, in 2001).

The AGORA program, set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) together with major publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to an outstanding digital library collection in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA provides a collection of 1,132 journals to institutions in 107 countries. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world.

ADSA Sustaining Membership

The American Dairy Science Association celebrates its 93rd year of publishing research work and three decades of Sustaining Membership. Through the Journal of Dairy Science the latest scientific and technical information is provided to all segments of the industry. Never before has the demand been as great as it is today to publish the scientific work in progress throughout the world.

In support of the efforts to continue to publish the works of those dedicated to the betterment of mankind and the dissemination of knowledge, we express our appreciation to the following organizations that support the American Dairy Science Association and the Journal of Dairy Science through Sustaining Membership.

30+ years: ADM Alliance Nutrition Inc., Decatur, IN; Cargill Animal Nutrition, Minneapolis, MN; Church & Dwight Co. Inc., Princeton, NJ

20 to 29 years: Custom Dairy Performance, Clovis, CA; Elanco Animal Health, Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, IN; Land O'Lakes, Inc., St. Paul, MN; Land O'Lakes/Purina Feed, St. Louis, MO; Pfizer Animal Health, Kalamazoo, MI; Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc., Johnston, IA; Kerry-BioScience, Rochester, MN; Danisco USA Inc., Madison, WI; Westfalia Surge Inc., Naperville, IL

10 to 19 years: Akey Inc., Lewisburg, OH; Alltech Inc., Nicholasville, KY; Diamond V Mills, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA; Kent Feeds Inc., Evergreen Mills Inc., Muscatine, IA; Kraft Foods, Kraft Cheese Division, Glenview, IL; Zinpro Corporation, Eden Prairie, MN

1 to 9 years: Adisseo USA Inc., Alpharetta, GA; Biovance Technologies Inc., Omaha, NE; BioZyme Inc., St. Joseph, MO; Darling International Research, Irving, TX; DSM Food Specialties USA Inc., Menomonee Falls, WI; Fort Dodge Animal Health, Princeton, NJ; Grande Cheese Company, Lomira, WI; MIN-AD Inc., Amarillo, TX; Mosaic, Lake Forest, IL; Novus International, St. Louis, MO; Performance Products Inc., San Antonio, TX; Prince Agri Products Inc., Quincy, IL; Qualitech, Longmont, CO; SoyPLUS/SoyChlor, Ralston, IA; Varied Industries Corporation, Mason City, IA; West Central, Ralston, IA; Zook Nutrition and Management Inc., Marsing, ID

For more information, contact:

American Dairy Science Association
2441 Village Green Place
Champaign, IL 61822
Phone: 217.356.5146
Fax: 217.398.4119
Email: adsa@assochq.org
http://www.adsa.org
http://www.journalofdairyscience.org/