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Published on Friday, April 1, 2016

American Dairy Science Association Report

2015 was a very good year for ADSA by every measure.

The Journal of Dairy Science® (JDS) was ranked 2nd of 55 journals in Thomson Reuters’ Agriculture, Dairy, and Animal Science category by the 2014 Impact Factor and was ranked 2nd by the 5-Year Impact Factor. The JDS also ranked 1st by Eigenfactor Score, which removes self-citations and 1st by total citations.

In the Food Science and Technology category, JDS was ranked 22nd of 123 journals by the 2014 Impact Factor and 21st of 123 journals by the 5-Year Impact Factor. The JDS was ranked 3rd by Eigenfactor Score in this category and 3rd by total citations.

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

After essentially no growth from 2013 to 2014, JDS surged ahead with 9,059 science pages and 9,414 total pages for the 2015 volume. 

Under the Joint Annual Meeting (JAM) memorandum of understanding (MOU) with ASAS, ADSA owned and operated the 2015 JAM, setting a new 2-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 post meeting survey: 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, and the overall conference experience rating increased by 3% from 3.95 to 4.07 (5-point scale).

Individual memberships were 4,202 in 2015, up by 1.8%.

The ADSA's fifth survey of professional members launched in December 2015; 87.5% of the respondents were either extremely satisfied or somewhat satisfied, up from 86.4% for the combined top two ratings in 2014. 

S-PAC continued to grow, with more contributing conferences (57) and proceedings (529). Paid subscribers hit an all-time high.

Two Discover Conferences were held in 2015; Discover Conference 29 Amino Acids of Dairy Cattle ran in the spring and Discover Conference 30 Creating an Enduring US Dairy Production Sector ran in the fall. Both were successful, with the amino acids conference supporting the NCR update to Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle, sponsored by ADSA.

ADSA purchased the membership interests of ASAS and PSA in FASS in May of 2015. As a result, FASS is now a subsidiary of ADSA. 
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