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.

A new group to track the research publications of the Critical Care Medicine Service, directed by Neil A. Halpern, was recently added to Synapse. Critical Care Medicine provides state-of-the-art multidisciplinary care to critically ill patients in both the ICU and Memorial Hospital through consultation and rapid response services. The group also provides education and training for Anesthesiology residents, medical students, fellows, and advanced practitioners.

Groups in Synapse are created in collaboration with individual departments and can be used to:

• track and share the publications of a customized group of authors
• promote the work of your department with a unique group URL
• easily sort publications by year, format, journal title, or author
• create publications lists that can be used for grant and funding reports, CV’s, and other online profile services such as ORCID or My NCBI

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