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Award announcement for Best Papers & Outstanding Reviewers

The Best Papers Award recognizes papers published by Animal Diseases in 2022 that advance the scientific knowledge of animal disease. Ten best original scientific research or review articles were selected based on the impacts (downloading and citation, etc) of the paper, recommendation by the Editorial Board Members, and the votes by readers.

They are:

1. Animal diseases and human future

Min Cui, Bang Shen, Zhen F. Fu, Huanchun Chen

2. MIC17A is a novel diagnostic marker for feline toxoplasmosis

Jinling Chen, Lilan Xue, Hongxia Hu, Xiaoyan Yin, Hui Cao, Bang Shen

3. Development of a chromatographic lateral flow immunoassay for detection of African swine fever virus antigen in blood

Daniel W. Madden, Sun-Young Sunwoo, Natasha N. Gaudreault, Jessie D. Trujillo, Igor Morozov, Carmina Gallardo, Juergen A. Richt

4. Epidemiological trends of mosquito-borne viral diseases in Pakistan

Muhammad Imran, Jing Ye, Muhammad K Saleemi,  Iqra Shaheen, Ali Zohaib, Zheng Chen, Shengbo Cao

5. Maternal-derived antibodies hinder antibody response against H9N2 AIV inactivated vaccine in the field

Xue Pan, Xin Su, Pingyun Ding, Jinhua Zhao, Hongrui Cui, Dawei Yan, Qiaoyang Teng, Xuesong Li, Nancy Beerens, Haitao Zhang, Qinfang Liu, Mart C.M. de Jong, Zejun Li

6. The role of veterinarians in the One Health approach to antimicrobial resistance perspectives in Jordan

Randa Bazzi Ahmad, Akram Alaboudi, Gábor Rácz

7. Prevalence and fluoroquinolone resistance of Campylobacter spp. isolated from beef cattle in Japan

Yoshimasa Sasaki, Hiroshi Asakura, Tetsuo Asai

8. The truncated form of flagellin (tFlic) provides the 2dCap subunit vaccine with better immunogenicity and protective effects in mice

Ying Lu, Zehui Liu, Yingxiang Li, Zhuofan Deng, Weihuan Fang, Fang He

9. Development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification assay for detection of Austropeplea tomentosa from environmental water samples

Lily Tran, Vignesh A. Rathinasamy, Travis Beddoe

10. Antimicrobial resistance and molecular typing of Salmonella in the chicken production chain in Hubei Province, China

Cuirong Wu, Lihui Liu, Yuxin Sui, Lulu Huang, Yang Chen, Haihong Hao, Yuanhu Pan, Zhenli Liu, Guyue Cheng


In 2022, 86 experts from 25 countries reviewed manuscripts for Animal Diseases. Totally 15 Outstanding Reviewers were selected according to the number of manuscripts reviewed, comprehensiveness and turnaround time for the reviews.

They are:

Shafiqul Chowdhury   Louisiana State University, USA

Dhruv Nitinkumar Desai   Ohio State University, USA

Jorge Enrique Gomz   Universidad del Quindío, Colombia

Zsuzsa Kreizinger   Veterinary Medical Research Institute, Hungary

Muhammad Abu Bakr Shabbir   University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pakistan

Weicheng Bei   Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Yi Ding   Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Senyan Du   Sichuan Agricultural University, China

Siyang Huang   Yangzhou University, China

Ruichao Li   Yangzhou University, China

Zhengfei Liu   Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Yaoqin Shen   Huazhong Agricultural University, China

Yingli Shang   Shandong Agricultural University, China

Yizhi Tang   Sichuan University, China

Zutao Zhou   Huazhong Agricultural University, China


Authors of the Best Papers and Outstanding Reviewers will be presented with an honorary certificate signed by the Editor-in-Chief and a Huan Chun Foundation award.


Congratulations to all authors and reviewers. Thank you for supporting Animal Diseases.