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Towards Farm Animal Welfare and Sustainability

Overview of attention for article published in Animals, May 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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Title
Towards Farm Animal Welfare and Sustainability
Published in
Animals, May 2018
DOI 10.3390/ani8060081
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Authors

Henry Buller, Harry Blokhuis, Per Jensen, Linda Keeling

Abstract

As farm animal welfare becomes an increasingly important component of contemporary global livestock production, animal welfare science and animal welfare policy-making need to find new ways of entering global debates over food security and sustainability. In this paper, we explore the means by which both animal welfare science and policy should articulate with these emerging global debates. Having first established the important gains in animal welfare policy and the maturity of animal welfare science, we identify and explore the potential impact of these current debates and argue that they have the potential for profound change in our understanding of, and our response to, the welfare of animals. We conclude the paper with a number of possible recommendations for how a scientifically informed, sustainable animal welfare policy might flourish.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 302 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 16%
Student > Master 44 15%
Researcher 33 11%
Student > Bachelor 29 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 3%
Other 40 13%
Unknown 98 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 73 24%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 56 19%
Environmental Science 11 4%
Social Sciences 9 3%
Engineering 9 3%
Other 34 11%
Unknown 110 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 December 2019.
All research outputs
#1,640,446
of 25,253,876 outputs
Outputs from Animals
#549
of 7,013 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,287
of 337,699 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Animals
#15
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,253,876 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,013 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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