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)

If you have any questions regarding Altmetrics, please contact us.

Synapse is curated by a team of librarians that check monthly for new publications by our MSK authors. The team goes through each publication, verifying and enhancing the bibliographic details, and assigning the papers to the appropriate MSK author profiles. With Synapse, the work of searching for an author’s publications is done for you and makes updating this information for reports and CV’s quick and easy. 

Here is how:

1. Locate your Synapse profile. Each profile has a distinct URL that will not change, so you can bookmark the link for future use.
2. Select the “Works” tab of the profile.
3. Limit to the year you would like. You can also limit to just “journal articles” if you would like to exclude meeting abstracts and conference proceedings from the results.
4. Select the style in which you would like the bibliography formatted. A popular one to choose is “NLM” style.
5. Copy and paste the bibliography into your document—the formatting will be preserved.

For help with this process, or any other questions about Synapse, reach out to us.

Each month, the Synapse team looks for recently published works authored by MSK researchers and staff and adds them to Synapse, our database of MSK authors and their publications. For 2019, we have already indexed almost 2,000 publications (including journal articles, meeting abstracts, reviews, conference papers, editorials etc.) Using the Altmetric integration we have added to Synapse, we can track the online attention publications receive across the web.

The following 2019 MSK publications have received the highest amount of online attention. Combined, they were featured in 111 news stories and tweeted over 2,886 times. To view the news stories and tweets, follow the links below and click in the colored Altmetric section to the right.

• High-Fructose Corn Syrup Enhances Intestinal Tumor Growth in Mice. Science. 2019 March 22; 363(6433):1345-1349.
• Metformin in 2019. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2019 May 21; 321(19):1926-1927.
• Trends in Sedentary Behavior Among the US Population, 2001-2016. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association. 2019 April 23; 321(16):1587-1597.

For questions about Synapse or Altmetric, contact Jeanine McSweeney.