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This study was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain and the European Union Regional Development Funds (RTA2012-0023-C03). B. Panea, M.J. Alcalde and G. Ripoll are members of the MARCAME network, funded by CYTED (116RT0503).

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September 17, 2019
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Volatile organic compounds and consumer preference for meat from suckling goat kids raised with natural or replacers milk

Publicated to:Italian Journal Of Animal Science. 18 (1): 1259-1270 - 2019-01-02 18(1), DOI: 10.1080/1828051X.2019.1646107

Authors: Ripoll, Guillermo; de Guia Cordoba, Maria; Jesus Alcalde, Maria; Martin, Alberto; Arguello, Anastasio; Casquet, Rocio; Panea, Begoiria

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Ctr Invest & Tecnol Agroalimentaria Aragon, Unidad Prod & Sanidad Anim, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
Univ Extremadura, Inst Univ Invest Recursos Agrarios, Badajoz, Spain - Author
Univ Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Dept Prod Anim, Las Palmas Gran Canaria, Spain - Author
Univ Seville, Dept Ciencias Agroforestales, Seville, Spain - Author
Univ Zaragoza, CITA, IA2, Zaragoza, Spain - Author
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Abstract

Most of European Union goats are slaughtered with carcase weights between 5 kg and 11 kg. Some farmers rear kids with milk replacers to produce cheese with the dams' milk. The aim of this experiment was to study the volatile compounds (VOCs) of meat of suckling light kids reared with natural milk or milk replacers and to study the influence of consumers' psychographic characteristics on the sensory preference for meat. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was performed to identify the VOCs and consumers evaluated the flavour, juiciness and overall acceptability. Thirty-five VOCs were detected and 44.3%, 25.1%, 6.9% and 2.3%, were aldehydes, hydrocarbons, ketones and alcohols, respectively. The influence of the rearing system on VOCs clearly depended on the breed. The use of milk replacers did not affect the percentage of linear aldehydes compared to the use of natural milk. However, the major aldehyde, hexanal (34.8%), was related to the use of natural milk and correlated positively with both the flavour (r = 0.21) and overall acceptability (r = 0.24). On the other hand, hydrocarbons such as hexane were related to MR, and 2-methyl-pentane and 3-methyl pentane were correlated with the acceptability of flavour (r = -0.22 and -0.25, respectively) and with the overall acceptability (r = -0.21 and -0.24). The 2-penthyl furan and 2-ethyl-1-hexanol were correlated with the overall acceptability (r = -0.22 and -0.22, respectively). Therefore, the acceptability of meat from suckling kids fed natural milk was greater for older consumers and people with a moderate consumption of meat.

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BeefDietFlavorFood chemistryFreshGoatsInvolvementMeatMeat compositionMeat flavourMeat: sensory scoreOdorPerceptionsProfileQualityRearing systemSensory score

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Italian Journal Of Animal Science due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2019, it was in position 14/63, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations from Scopus Elsevier, it yields a value for the Field-Weighted Citation Impact from the Scopus agency: 1.12, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 2.03 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-12, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 11
  • Scopus: 13
  • Google Scholar: 7

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-12:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 35.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 37 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.85.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Ripoll García, Guillermo) and Last Author (Panea Doblado, Begoña).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Ripoll García, Guillermo.