Holiday Greetings & Metrics from the MSK Library

The end of year is rapidly approaching and the MSK Library team has been very busy supporting and collaborating with our user community. To gain a sense of what we’ve been up to this year, take a moment to explore our new Library Dashboard, with a fresh look and feel, outlining the team’s activities via metrics. The information presented represents a snapshot of the work we do.

These metrics focus on a variety of services and resources such as:
1. literature search and document delivery requests; 
2. class attendance;
3. content usage for our digital journal and book collections;
4. website traffic;
5. our new FAQs section, designed to help users find quick answers to our most popular client questions;
6. Synapse and the increasing number of MSK authors and their publications;
7. research data management and how we are tracking the MSK Data Catalog views, where MSK researchers are depositing their data sets, and the growing interest in data management plans;
8. our quarterly virtual event, Advancing Authorship Series;
9.  and the SKOAP Fund request submissions we are tracking for authors who need financial support for article processing charges.

We also continued to promote our in-person and Virtual Library Services in support of incoming client requests and encouraged our user community to use our chat feature on the library website as a way to obtain immediate help. 

However you celebrate, I hope you find moments of joy and happiness this holiday season to lift your spirit and restore your energy for 2024. Wishing a very Happy New Year to all!

Cheers,
Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

Clarivate Reveals World’s Influential Researchers: 2023 List is Available to View!

Clarivate released its 2023 list of Highly Cited Researchers™. Their evaluation and selection process identified 6,849 researchers from institutions in 67 countries/regions who demonstrate significant influence in their field(s) of interest through their highly cited papers. For the United States this represents 2,669 highly cited researchers with a world share of 37.5%.

Curious on who made this global list from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK)?  Read on to find out!

The Highly Cited Researchers’ names are drawn from the publications that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science™ citation index.

I am delighted to share that 41 researchers associated with MSK publications from this year made this prestigious list.  There were 8 researchers on the list that had previously work at the Center but had no MSK-affiliated papers for a few years.

Name Category Name Category
       
Omar Abdel-Wahab Cross-Field Robert J. Motzer Clinical Medicine
Maria E. Arcila Clinical Medicine Dana Pe’er Molecular Biology & Genetics
Michael F. Berger Clinical Medicine Miguel-Angel Perales Cross-Field
Renier Brentjens Cross-Field Michael A. Postow Clinical Medicine
Margaret K. Callahan Cross-Field Natasha Rekhtman Cross-Field
Justin R. Cross Cross-Field Gregory J. Riely Clinical Medicine
Elisa de Stanchina Cross-Field Jonathan Rosenberg Cross-Field
Alexander Drilon Clinical Medicine Alexander Y. Rudensky Immunology
Mithat Gonen Cross-Field Charles M. Rudin Clinical Medicine
Matthew D. Hellmann Clinical Medicine Michel Sadelain Cross-Field
Clifford A. Hudis Cross-Field Nikolaus Schultz Cross-Field
Xuejun Jiang Molecular Biology & Genetics David Solit Cross-Field
Luis A. Diaz, Jr Cross-Field Martin S. Tallman Cross-Field
David S. Klimstra Cross-Field Ying Taur Cross-Field
Mark G. Kris Clinical Medicine Craig B. Thompson Molecular Biology & Genetics
Marc Ladanyi Clinical Medicine William D. Travis Clinical Medicine
Ross L. Levine Cross-Field Marcel R. M. van den Brink Immunology
Joan Massague Molecular Biology & Genetics Agnes Viale Cross-Field
Ingo K. Mellinghoff Cross-Field Jedd D. Wolchok Clinical Medicine, Immunology, Molecular Biology & Genetics
Taha Merghoub Cross-Field Ahmet Zehir Cross-Field
Vincent A. Miller Clinical Medicine    

To view these researchers and other MSK authors, check out Synapse, the authoritative database of MSK publications, showcasing references for journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, meeting abstracts, and more.

On behalf of the Library staff, congratulations to these researchers and to all of our distinguished authors, who through their work contribute daily to the ever-growing body of published medical and scientific literature. 

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

International Open Access Week October 23 – 29 2023

Mark your calendars, International Open Access Week is just around the corner. This year’s theme is “Community over Commercialization,” providing an opportunity to emphasize and discuss approaches to open scholarship that best serve the interests of the public and the academic community.

The MSK Library promotes Open Access in several ways by:

  • adding relevant open access journals to our current list of eJournals;
  • managing the SKOAP fund which financially supports MSK authors for article processing charges;
  • providing a curated listed of open access initiatives, resources, tools, directories, and repositories;
  • and sharing information about open access specific to the needs of the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) community.

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