The Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) was ranked second of 55 journals in Thomson Reuters’ Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category by the 2014 Impact Factor and was ranked second by the 5-Year Impact Factor. JDS also ranked first by Eigenfactor Score, which removes self-citations, and first by total citations.

In the Food Science and Technology category (using the same Impact Factor), JDS was ranked 22nd of 123 journals by the 2014 Impact Factor and 21st of 123 journals by the 5-Year Impact Factor. JDS was ranked third by Eigenfactor Score in this category and third by total citations.

The journal published 783 articles in 8,134 (science) pages in 2013 and 775 articles in 8,058 (science pages) in 2014. For 2014 the Impact Factor increased by 0.023 from the previous year.

After essentially no growth from 2013 to 2014, the journal has surged ahead with 9,059 science pages and 9,406 total pages for the 2015 volume.

Under the ADSA–ASAS joint annual meeting (JAM) memorandum of understanding, ADSA owned and operated the 2015 JAM, setting a new two-society attendance record. The ADSA Foundation delivered a second ADSA Foundation PhD Symposium: “Meeting the present and future demand for employees with a PhD”; the Production and Dairy Foods Division worked together to deliver another great MILK symposium: “Global dairy perspective—Production, processing, people, politics, and priorities.” Key metrics from the 2015 postmeeting survey are as follows: compared with the 2013 ADSA-owned-and-operated JAM, overall value, for the registration rate paid, moved up by 6.3%, from 3.63 to 3.86; the overall conference experience rating increase by 3%, from 3.95 to 4.07 (5-point scale).

Gerald E. Higginbotham, PhD, PAS, Dipl. ACAN