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Synapse Reaches a Milestone Achievement: 100,000 MSK Publications

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On December 16, the Synapse team indexed it’s 100,000th MSK publication!

Synapse was launched by the library in 2008 with the goal of capturing the intellectual output of MSK via publications. Each month our team searches for newly authored MSK works, vets and enhances all of the citation metadata, creates linkages to PubMed Central, Altmetrics, Dimensions citation counts, and adds them to the correct MSK authors’ profiles.

Some facts about these 100,000 publications:

  • Spans published works from 1985 to current.
  • We add an average of 7,000 publications per year; more than 500 per month.
  • The five journals most frequently published in (excluding meeting abstracts), are: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Cancer, Clinical Cancer Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Blood.
  • 65.7% of these publications are Journal Articles, including reviews, editorials, correspondence etc.; 28.2%  Meeting Abstracts; 4.5% Book Chapters/Books; and 1.4% Conference Papers.

A special thanks to our team of dedicated librarians that work each day to ensure these publications are captured and discoverable. This resource supports MSK staff in effectively managing grant compliance, their annual reports, and helping them keep their CV’s up-to-date. To learn more about Synapse, check out our About or FAQ web pages, or better yet, please contact us. 

New Synapse Group: Graduate Medical Education

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Working with the Office of Graduate Medical Education, we’ve created a Synapse group to help track publications that include MSK trainees as authors. Over 150 trainees have been added to the group, who thus far in 2022 collaborated on at least 309 publications at MSK. We further broke down the trainees into 12 sub-groups relating to their clinical training program, such as Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery etc., to allow for more granularity in highlighting publications by training program. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSK offers approximately 100 clinical training programs that range from residency level programs to advanced fellowship programs. “Our goal is to provide our trainees with top-notch clinical and scientific training and personalized guidance to become outstanding members of the medical community in their respective discipline.” 

If you are interested in creating a Synapse group for your department, or wish to learn more about how groups can help you track publications, please contact us.

Highlighting the Publications of Our Nurses

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The Department of Nursing at MSK is well recognized for its excellence in evidence-based, compassionate, patient care. In celebration of National Nurses Week, we’d like to highlight our nurses and their contributions to advancing both cancer and nursing scholarship. Through the Synapse Nursing Group, we collect and display our nurses’ works. In 2021, they contributed to 157 publications, including research articles, conference presentations, reviews, and editorials.

We also have a group specifically for Advanced Practice Providers, tracking the publications of our Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. Click on the “works” section of each group to view their publications and join us in thanking our nurse’s for all they do at MSK.