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® 2011, published by Thomson Reuters, with an impact factor of 2.497.

Impact Factor

The Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) is the top-ranked dairy research journal in the world. In 2011, JDS was ranked by Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Reports® as number 2 of 55 journals in the Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category, with an Impact Factor of 2.497 (2010 data). JDS is also number 1 in the category by the five-year Impact Factor, with a score of 2.952. The journal has now ranked in the top five of the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science category for ten straight years. The journal is also highly ranked in the Food Science and Technology category (18th of 126 journals for Impact Factor).

Eigenfactor™ Score

In 2011, the Journal of Dairy Science was ranked number 1 by Eigenfactor™ Score (2010 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

2012 Volume 95
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 95th 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.

Adisseo North America
Alpharetta, GA

Ag Processing Inc.
Omaha, NE

Akey
Lewisburg, OH

Alltech Biotechnology Center
Nicholasville, KY

Arm & Hammer Animal Nutrition
Princeton, NJ

Biomin USA Inc.
San Antonio, TX

BioZyme Incorporated
St, Joseph, MO

Danisco USA Inc.
Madison, WI

Darling International Research
Irving, TX

Diamond V Mills Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA

Elanco Animal Health
Greenfield, IN

GEA Farm Technologies
Naperville, IL

Grande Cheese Company
Lomira, WI

Kent Feeds
Muscatine, IA

Kraft Foods
Glenview, IL

Land O'Lakes Inc.
St. Paul, MN

MIN-AD Inc.
Amarillo, TX

Novus International
St. Charles, MO

Performance Products Inc.
San Antonio, TX

Pfizer Animal Health
Kalamazoo, MI

Pioneer, A DuPont Company
Johnston, IA

Prince AgriProducts Inc.
Groveland, IL

Quali Tech
Longmont, CO

SoyPLUS/SoyChlor
Ralston, IA

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Uppsala, Sweden

Varied Industries Corporation
Mason City, IA

Zook Nutrition & Management Inc.
Marsing, ID

For more information, contact:

American Dairy Science Association
1800 South Oak St.
Suite 100
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217.356.5146
Fax: 217.398.4119
Email: adsa@assochq.org
http://www.adsa.org
http://www.journalofdairyscience.org/