As we near the end of 2018, let’s take a look at some of the MSK publications that received a high amount of online attention throughout the year.

Combined, the following three articles appeared in 592 news outlets, 36 blog posts, and 2,812 tweets. This data, compiled by Altmetric, tracks the mentions of publications across the web, assigning a weighted score indicating the amount of attention received. These articles are in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. 

Click on the the colored donuts to view full details (keep in mind that scores fluctuate in real time): 

Detection and localization of surgically resectable cancers with a multi-analyte blood test. Science. 2018 February 23; 359(6378):926-930.

Man against machine: Diagnostic performance of a deep learning convolutional neural network for dermoscopic melanoma recognition in comparison to 58 dermatologists. Annals of Oncology. 2018 August 01; 29(8):1836-1842.

Efficacy of larotrectinib in TRK fusion-positive cancers in adults and children. New England Journal of Medicine. 2018 February 22; 378(8):731-739.

A customized group tracking the publications of MSK researchers studying cancer survivorship is now available in Synapse. This group studies the long-term side effects of cancer treatment across all cancer types and specialties.

Groups in Synapse bring together the library-curated author profiles of a defined set of researchers, creating a useful tool to track the publications output of your MSK department, center, or research area.

Other benefits to creating a group in Synapse:

• View and share publications from your department with a custom group URL
• Link to article full-text and PubMed Central
• Create annual publications lists that can be used for grant and funding reports
• Subscribe to RSS feeds for alerts on new publications from your group

For more information or to create a group in Synapse, contact Jeanine McSweeney.

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their research on immune checkpoint blockade as a cancer treatment therapy.

Dr. Allison was Chair of the Immunology program at the Sloan Kettering Institute from 2004–2012, during which time he authored 123 publications.

You can browse these works from Dr. Allison’s Library-curated Synapse Author Profile, exploring also his various MSK co-author collaborations. 

Some of Dr. Allison’s influential papers while conducting research at MSK:

• • Restoring function in exhausted CD8 T cells during chronic viral infection. Nature. 2006 February 09;439(7077):682-687. (Cited 2,008 times – 99^th percentile in topic*)
  • Immunologic correlates of the abscopal effect in a patient with melanoma. New England Journal of Medicine. 2012 March 08;366(10):925-931. (Cited 859 times – 99^th percentile in topic*)
  • PD-1 and CTLA-4 combination blockade expands infiltrating T cells and reduces regulatory T and myeloid cells within B16 melanoma tumors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2010 March 02;107(9):4275-4280. (Cited 748 times – 99^th percentile in topic*)

*data retrieved from Scopus citation database, 10/9/2018