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Authors are grateful to farmers for their inestimable effort and want to acknowledge the Holstein Associations EFRIFE and AFRIGI their cooperation. This work has been supported by MITC (PDT2004-0168).
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Alenda, R.AuthorClinical mastitis in Spanish dairy cows: incidence and costs
Publicated to:Spanish Journal Of Agricultural Research. 6 (4): 615-622 - 2008-01-01 6(4), DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2008064-354
Authors: Perez-Cabal, M. A.; Yaici, S.; Alenda, R.;
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Abstract
Clinical mastitis in Spanish dairy herds has been studied. Since April 2005 up to December 2006, in 25 Spanish herds 1,054 cases registered were available. Aims were to determine mastitis incidence and factors of risk, to analyze whether yield production has been affected, and to quantify mastitis costs along 2006. The 25% lactations were infected at least once with average recurrence of 1.64. Descriptive analysis showed that 29% of cases occurred within the first month after calving. Primiparous showed higher mastitis frequency at early and late lactation while in multiparous cases number was progressively decreasing since the first month. Multiparous were statistically more liable to mastitis than primiparous. Mastitis did not show effect on yield production. Mastitis costs included treatment products and discarded milk. Individual daily production at each case onset was estimated by using monthly official milking records. An average mastitis case cost was 73.93 (sic), cheaper in primiparous than in multiparous because of lower milk production. Average discarded milk represented 74% of total cost per case. Mastitis costs were 117 (sic) per infected cow and lactation. Then, annual economic losses due to mastitis were 3,190 (sic) per average herd, showing the concern of producers on selecting resistant animals as well as the importance of the implementation of systematic recording for clinical mastitis in Spanish dairy farms.
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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel
The work has been published in the journal Spanish Journal Of Agricultural Research, and although the journal is classified in the quartile Q3 (Agencia WoS (JCR)), its regional focus and specialization in Agriculture, Multidisciplinary, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.
From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 1.17, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)
Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-07, the following number of citations:
- WoS: 9
- Scopus: 14
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors
There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (ALENDA JIMENEZ, RAFAEL).