Highlighted here are research articles published by MSK authors in 2019 that received the highest amount of attention online via news stories, blogs, social media posts, etc. The data is compiled by Altmetric, which tracks the mentions a publication receives across the web and assigns a weighted score indicating the amount of attention received.

The publications listed below are in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. You can click on the colored donut to view full details (keep in mind that scores fluctuate in real time and also that the contributing MSK author is given in parenthesis, but does not indicate all authors on the paper.)

High-fructose corn syrup enhances intestinal tumor growth in mice. Science. (Hongbiao Carl Lekaye)

Five-year survival with combined nivolumab and ipilimumab in advanced melanoma. New England Journal of Medicine. (Jedd Wolchok)

Metformin in 2019. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. (James Flory)

Increasing the dose intensity of chemotherapy by more frequent administration or sequential scheduling: a patient-level meta-analysis of 37,298 women with early breast cancer in 26 randomised trials. The Lancet. (Larry Norton)

Trends in sedentary behavior among the US population, 2001-2016. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. (Elizabeth Kantor)

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