LabCompass

Melissa Davis

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2010
Meat and Animal Product QualityAnimal Behavior and Welfare StudiesEffects of Environmental Stressors on LivestockAnimal Nutrition and PhysiologyCardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments

Publications

36

Citations

347

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

16

Publishing since 2010

Research summary
AI-generated

This bibliographic record appears to combine work from multiple distinct research areas, most consistently centered on preslaughter management of beef cattle and its effects on animal welfare and meat quality, including topics like mobility, bruising, and stress indicators before slaughter. There is also a cluster of publications on animal welfare perceptions among students and industry stakeholders, alongside unrelated items on cardiac disease and materials science that likely reflect name overlap with other researchers rather than a single unified research program.

Preslaughter cattle managementAnimal welfare assessmentMeat quality outcomesBeef industry stakeholder perceptionsLivestock stress physiology

Publication output has been variable over the last decade, with quiet years (e.g., 2018, 2021) followed by notable spikes in 2022 and 2024, suggesting an uneven but recently active publication pace.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
2017: 3 publications17182019: 1 publication192020: 2 publications202021: 1 publication212022: 7 publications7222023: 2 publications232024: 6 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Translational Animal Science×5
  • Poultry Science×2
  • Frontiers in Animal Science×2
  • Animals×2
  • Foods×2
Similar researchers
By research-topic overlap
  • B. M. Bohrer

    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

  • Stacy M. S. Zuelly

    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

  • L. G. Garcia

    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

  • Rick Obrian Hernández

    Veterinary · Purdue University West Lafayette

  • Boin Lee

    Agricultural and Biological Sciences · The Ohio State University

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

Claim or correct this profile