Journal of Dairy Science

The official journal of the American Dairy Science Association?, Journal of Dairy Science? (JDS) is the leading peer-reviewed 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 is the top-ranked dairy research journal in the world. JDS is ranked 2nd in the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science category of the Journal Citation Reports? 2014, published by Thomson Reuters, with an impact factor of 2.573. JDS 5-year Impact Factor (3.071) is also ranked 2nd in the Agriculture, Dairy and Animal Science category. The Journal has secured a top five journal ranking for thirteen straight years. JDS is also highly ranked in the Food Science and Technology category: 22nd of 123 journals for Impact Factor and 21 of 123 journals for 5-year Impact Factor.