Emanuela Dalla Costa

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Emanuela Dalla Costa is a scholar working on Small Animals, Equine and Animal Science and Zoology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emanuela Dalla Costa has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Small Animals, 38 papers in Equine and 26 papers in Animal Science and Zoology. Recurrent topics in Emanuela Dalla Costa's work include Veterinary Equine Medical Research (38 papers), Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (34 papers) and Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia (21 papers). Emanuela Dalla Costa is often cited by papers focused on Veterinary Equine Medical Research (38 papers), Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (34 papers) and Veterinary Pharmacology and Anesthesia (21 papers). Emanuela Dalla Costa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Brazil. Emanuela Dalla Costa's co-authors include Michela Minero, Elisabetta Canali, Francesca Dai, Dirk Lebelt, Matthew C. Leach, Diana Stucke, S. Barbieri, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Jarkko K. Niemi and Matti Pastell and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Diabetes Care.

In The Last Decade

Emanuela Dalla Costa

64 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Development of the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) as a Pain Assessment Tool in Horses Undergoing Routine Castration

2014 393 citations Emanuela Dalla Costa, Michela Minero et al. PLoS ONE profile →
A Systematic Review on Commercially Available and Validated Sensor Technologies for Welfare Assessment of Dairy Cattle

2021 137 citations Emanuela Dalla Costa, Elisabetta Canali et al. Frontiers in Veterinary Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emanuela Dalla Costa Italy	22	1.2k	817	642	496	235	69	1.8k
Sue M. McDonnell United States	25	821 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	486 0.8×	305 0.6×	88 0.4×	106	2.2k
Deborah Goodwin United Kingdom	18	510 0.4×	491 0.6×	516 0.8×	221 0.4×	97 0.4×	39	1.3k
A. E. Waterman‐Pearson United Kingdom	24	1.9k 1.6×	785 1.0×	343 0.5×	704 1.4×	106 0.5×	39	2.4k
J.M. Ballam United States	18	689 0.6×	257 0.3×	683 1.1×	146 0.3×	35 0.1×	25	1.7k
V. Molony United Kingdom	27	1.5k 1.2×	701 0.9×	348 0.5×	689 1.4×	43 0.2×	59	2.4k
Michela Minero Italy	27	1.9k 1.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	896 1.8×	329 1.4×	101	2.8k
J.E. Kent United Kingdom	24	1.8k 1.4×	723 0.9×	367 0.6×	901 1.8×	40 0.2×	45	2.2k
Markus Stauffacher Switzerland	20	930 0.8×	552 0.7×	297 0.5×	584 1.2×	68 0.3×	37	1.6k
E.K. Visser Netherlands	19	1.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.4×	796 1.2×	728 1.5×	247 1.1×	36	2.1k
Esterina Fazio Italy	18	344 0.3×	686 0.8×	156 0.2×	417 0.8×	46 0.2×	114	1.2k

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Daros, Ruan R., et al.. (2024). Enhancing the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS): Proposed updates and anatomical descriptors for pain assessment. The Veterinary Journal. 307. 106223–106223. 1 indexed citations

Barbieri, S., et al.. (2023). The Feasibility of Animal-Based Indicators of Consciousness and Unconsciousness for Stunning in Sheep: A Systematic Review. Animals. 13(8). 1395–1395. 4 indexed citations

Dai, Francesca, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Michela Minero, & Christine Briant. (2023). Does housing system affect horse welfare? The AWIN welfare assessment protocol applied to horses kept in an outdoor group-housing system: The ‘parcours’. Animal Welfare. 32. e22–e22. 8 indexed citations

Menchetti, Laura, et al.. (2022). Unhandled horses classified with broken/unbroken test (BUT) exhibit longer avoidance, flight reactions, and displacement behaviors when approached by humans. Frontiers in Veterinary Science. 9. 1022255–1022255. 6 indexed citations

Costa, Emanuela Dalla, Francesca Dai, Cristina Lecchi, et al.. (2021). Towards an improved pain assessment in castrated horses using facial expressions (HGS) and circulating miRNAs. Veterinary Record. 188(9). e82–e82. 7 indexed citations

Mazzola, Silvia, Simona Cannas, C. Palestrini, et al.. (2021). Do You Think I Am Living Well? A Four-Season Hair Cortisol Analysis on Leisure Horses in Different Housing and Management Conditions. Animals. 11(7). 2141–2141. 24 indexed citations

Catozzi, Carlotta, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Alessandra Martucciello, et al.. (2021). The effects of intradermal M. bovis and M. avium PPD test on immune-related mRNA and miRNA in dermal oedema exudates of water buffaloes (Bubalus bubalis). Tropical Animal Health and Production. 53(2). 250–250. 2 indexed citations

Minozzi, Giulietta, Filippo Biscarini, Emanuela Dalla Costa, et al.. (2020). Analysis of Hindgut Microbiome of Sheep and Effect of Different Husbandry Conditions. Animals. 11(1). 4–4. 6 indexed citations

Dai, Francesca, et al.. (2020). Does Thirty-Minute Standardised Training Improve the Inter-Observer Reliability of the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS)? A Case Study. Animals. 10(5). 781–781. 25 indexed citations

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Vullo, Cecilia, S. Barbieri, Giuseppe Catone, et al.. (2020). Is the Piglet Grimace Scale (PGS) a Useful Welfare Indicator to Assess Pain after Cryptorchidectomy in Growing Pigs?. Animals. 10(3). 412–412. 21 indexed citations

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Chincarini, Matteo, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Lina Qiu, et al.. (2020). Reliability of fNIRS for noninvasive monitoring of brain function and emotion in sheep. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14726–14726. 9 indexed citations

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Costa, Emanuela Dalla, Francesca Dai, Michela Minero, et al.. (2019). Text Mining Analysis to Evaluate Stakeholders’ Perception Regarding Welfare of Equines, Small Ruminants, and Turkeys. Animals. 9(5). 225–225. 8 indexed citations

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McLennan, Krista M., Amy L. Miller, Emanuela Dalla Costa, et al.. (2019). Conceptual and methodological issues relating to pain assessment in mammals: The development and utilisation of pain facial expression scales. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 217. 1–15. 52 indexed citations

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Dai, Francesca, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Faith Burden, et al.. (2017). Ensuring welfare on farm of donkeys kept for milk production: an analysis of the legislation.. Large animals review. 23(2). 59–64. 3 indexed citations

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Lecchi, Cristina, Emanuela Dalla Costa, Dirk Lebelt, et al.. (2017). Circulating miR-23b-3p, miR-145-5p and miR-200b-3p are potential biomarkers to monitor acute pain associated with laminitis in horses. animal. 12(2). 366–375. 21 indexed citations

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Dai, Francesca, Marta Brščić, Matteo Chincarini, et al.. (2017). Effects of management practices on the welfare of dairy donkeys and risk factors associated with signs of hoof neglect. Journal of Dairy Research. 85(1). 30–38. 17 indexed citations

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Battini, Monica, Françoise Wemelsfelder, S. Barbieri, et al.. (2016). On-farm Qualitative Behaviour Assessment of dairy goats in different housing conditions. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 180. 51–57. 61 indexed citations

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Costa, Emanuela Dalla, Michela Minero, Dirk Lebelt, et al.. (2014). Development of the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) as a Pain Assessment Tool in Horses Undergoing Routine Castration. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e92281–e92281. 393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Minero, Michela, et al.. (2013). Measuring validity and reliability of facial expressions of pain in horses as an innovative welfare indicator. 1 indexed citations

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Bañón, Sancho, et al.. (2003). A comparative study of boar taint in cooked and dry-cured meat. Meat Science. 63(3). 381–388. 53 indexed citations

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