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MSK Faculty Elected to National Academy of Medicine

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An October 10, 2023, MSK press release shared the news that two of MSK’s faculty, Dr. Luis Diaz Jr., MD and Dr. Kojo S.J. Elenitoba-Johnson, MD were elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM). Recognition by the NAM “is considered one of the highest honors in the field of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.”  In celebration of this news, we would like to highlight the Synapse* profiles of both Dr. Diaz and Dr. Elenitoba-Johnson, bringing attention to their influential research publications.

Dr. Diaz, a medical oncologist and expert in applied cancer genetics and immuno-oncology has been with MSK since 2016. In that time, he has authored over 50 articles, including the landmark New England Journal of Medicine paper highlighted in the press release. Looking at our Altmetric and Citation Count trackers, you can see this paper has been cited over 450 times, and has an extremely high Altmetric Score, showing the paper’s popularity in both social media and news outlets.image from Synape showing Dimensions and Altmetric scores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Elenitoba-Johnson, a physician-scientist and leader in the fields of hematopathology and molecular genomic pathology, as well as translational research utilizing genomics and mass spectrometry-driven proteomics, joined MSK in 2022. His Synapse profile reflects his publications authored with MSK since 2022, but using the “dashboard” tab of his profile, you can follow the link next to “Scopus Author ID” to link out to his full publication list captured by Scopus, showing 191 papers that have been cited over 10,000 times. image of Dr. Elenitoba-Johnson profile in Scopus.

We join the MSK community in congratulating both Dr. Diaz and Dr. Elenitoba-Johnson on their achievements. 

*Synapse is the authoritative database of MSK authors and their publications, managed by the Medical Library. 

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New Resource: Facility Guidelines Institute’s Guidelines for Design and Construction of Hospitals & Outpatient Facilities

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The 2022 Guidelines documents have a wide variety of public and private uses. These include adoption by states for regulatory purposes and other reference in laws, codes, rules, and regulations; use in private self-regulation and standardization of space and equipment requirements; and the promotion of safe practices and methods in planning, design, and construction for various types of health care facilities. Care organizations and design firms use the Guidelines to develop new construction and major renovation projects, and many state and federal authorities having jurisdiction use the documents to review these projects.

The 2022 Guidelines For Design and Construction of Hospitals includes several notable new sections as well as revisions aimed at providing flexibility, reducing cost, and clarifying intent. Major updates appear in requirements for mobile units, imaging facilities, behavioral and mental health facilities, and neonatal intensive care units.

The 2022 Guidelines for Design and Construction of Outpatient Facilities includes several notable new sections as well as revisions aimed at providing flexibility, reducing cost, and clarifying intent.

Users can access the guidelines from the links above. When on the FGI Guidelines webpage, click on “Purchased Guidelines” on the left column to access the 2022 Guidelines.

Systematic Bulk Downloading of Articles from PubMed Central (PMC)

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In this era of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), there is increased interest in accessing large numbers of full-text articles to train deep learning models and/or evaluate their performance. The U. S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)’s PubMed Central (PMC) full-text article repository is a popular choice with AI/ML researchers who are often looking for a free, openly accessible source of the scholarly biomedical literature. For a recent example of research carried out using the PMC Open Access Subset, see PMID: 37094464:

Although the NLM is generally accommodating of researchers using and even building upon all the tools and resources that it develops and supports, there is an expectation on the part of NLM that researchers will work within their rules and restrictions. Anyone interested in “automated retrieval of articles in machine-readable formats in PubMed Central (PMC)” is encouraged to explore the “several large datasets of journal articles and other scientific publications made available for retrieval under license terms that generally allow for more liberal redistribution and reuse than a traditional copyrighted work (e.g., Creative Commons licenses)”. However, there are “Restrictions on the Systematic Downloading of Articles”– see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/textmining/. 

When researchers try to bulk download a large amount of content via the regular PMC web interface on their own, PMC’s systems notice the increased activity and block the IP range(s) responsible as this is in violation of the terms of the PMC Copyright Notice which states that “Systematic downloading of batches of articles from the main PMC web site, in any way, is prohibited because of copyright restrictions.”

From: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/copyright/:

PMC makes certain subsets of articles (i.e., the PMC Article Datasets) accessible through auxiliary services that may be used for automated retrieval and downloading. These are:

These services are the only services that may be used for this purpose. Do not use any other automated processes for downloading articles, even if you are only retrieving articles from the PMC Article Datasets (including the PMC Open Access Subset).

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