Riddet Institute journal articles most cited

13 October 2025 - Four academic papers by Riddet Institute researchers have been named in a just-released 100 most cited journal articles list in the Journal of Dairy Science.

The top articles all involve milk research, and were published in 2022 in the 108-year-old American title, the Journal of Dairy Science.

The 100 Most Cited list is a list of 100 academic journal articles quoted by other researchers since 2022. The list was released last week. All authors involved in the writing and research in the papers are Riddet Institute current or recent students or staff, or close collaborators.

The four articles are:

• Dynamic in vitro gastric digestion behavior of goat milk: Effects of homogenization and heat treatments, by Siqi Li, Aiqian Ye, Zheng Pan, Jack Cui, Anant Dave, and Harjinder Singh.
• Kinetics of pepsin-induced hydrolysis and the coagulation of milk proteins, by Mengxiao Yang, Aiqian Ye, Zhi Yang, David Everett, Elliot Gilbert, and Harjinder Singh.
• Kinetics of heat-induced interactions among whey proteins and casein micelles in sheep skim milk and aggregation of the casein micelles, by Zheng Pan, Aiqian Ye, Anant Dave, Karl Fraser, and Harjinder Singh.
• Structural changes in milk from different species during gastric digestion in piglets, by Debashree Roy, Paul Moughan, Aiqian Ye, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Natascha Stroebinger, Siqi Li, Anant Dave, Carlos Montoya, and Harjinder Singh.

An official journal of the American Dairy Science Association®, the Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) publishes original research, invited review articles, and other scholarly work that relates to the production and processing of milk or milk products intended for human consumption. The journal is broadly divided into dairy foods and dairy production sections. 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.

A Journal Impact Factor of 4.4 places JDS 4th out of 86 journals in the Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category, which ranks JDS in the first quartile. The journal also has a five-year Impact Factor of 4.4, indicating that articles in JDS continue to be cited well beyond the immediate two-year period following publication. In the Food Science and Technology category, JDS is ranked 50th out of 181 journals, which is in the second quartile.

The Journal of Dairy Science is an open access journal. Authors who publish in JDS make their work immediately, permanently, and freely accessible worldwide.