2019 is still young, but the Synapse team have already added over 450 MSK-authored works (published in 2019) to Synapse, MSK’s authoritative database of our authors and their publications.

Of interest, the following selected publications are receiving a high level of online attention. Combined, they were featured in 77 news outlets and tweeted over 678 times. To view the news stories and tweets, follow the links below and then click on the colored  Altmetric section on the right.

• Integration of genomic sequencing results in healthy and ill newborns; Results from the BabySeq Project. American Journal of Human Genetics. 2019 January 03; 104(1):76-93.
• Association of obesity with risk of early-onset colorectal cancer among women. JAMA Oncology. 2019 January 01; 5(1):37-44.
• How to land a research internship. Nature. 2019 January 10; 565(7738):257.

The Synapse team has begun importing the first batch of MSK publications for 2019, while also continuing to add retrospective content to the database. Thus far, the library has indexed 66,258 MSK-authored publications, and aim to go as far back as 1884.

Looking at research articles published between 2019-1994 (our current scope of coverage), here are the top 10 Journals by number of MSK publications:

1. Journal of Clinical Oncology (1640)
2. Cancer (866)
3. Clinical Cancer Research (789)
4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (684)
5. Blood (652)
6. Annals of Surgical Oncology (643)
7. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics (597)
8. Journal of Biological Chemistry (545)
9. Cancer Research (517)
10. Journal of Urology (508)

For questions about Synapse, contact Jeanine McSweeney.

The 2017 Synapse Publications Report is now available and with a new feature–  research collaborations.

We looked at the author affiliation data* from 2,013 MSK research papers published in 2017, compiling the geographic locations of the collaborating authors. What did we learn? Not unsurprisingly, that collaboration is key! MSK researchers collaborated with outside researchers on 85% of of all papers, and only 6% of papers were authored by a single author.

The report includes two maps, International and United States, along with the top cities, states, and countries of our researchers’ co-authors outside the Center.

Additionally in the report you will find information about all MSK publications from 2017 including highly-cited papers, top Altmetric scores, top journals, and a full bibliography of works.

Look for the 2018 Publications Report later in the year.

*Data retrieved from Scopus citation database.