Category Archives: Publications Spotlight

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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Curious About the Research Conducted at Memorial Sloan Kettering in 2022?

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Now you can explore the 2022 Synapse Publications Report and view an analysis, with references, of the intellectual output of MSK!   

Cover of the 2022 Synapse Publications Report produced by the MSK Library.

For 2022, 5,992 works were ingested (13% increase from last year), and we created 612 new Synapse author profiles. Breaking the works down by publication format, we noted: Journal Articles (2,399), Meeting Abstracts (2,196), Reviews (608), Editorials (356), Correspondence (116), Guidelines (111), Research Letters (82), Conference Papers (27), Book Sections (35), Books (2), and Miscellaneous (60).

This report also contains visuals that showcase our authors’ research collaborations within the United States and internationally.

Synapse is a public-facing resource and the authoritative bibliographic database of MSK publications, maintained by a dedicated team of information professionals. While this report reflects the year in review, the Synapse database provides a record of the intellectual output written by our authors dating back to 1985.

If you’re curious about past years, you can review Synapse reports going back to 2016, as well as two theme-based special reports.

Feel free to send me an email and let me know what you think about this year’s report, or if you have any suggestions for a special report.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

Check Out the MSK Library’s COVID-19 Publication Report

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The Synapse team led by Jeanine McSweeney, Associate Librarian, Scholarly Communications, has published an online report entitled “COVID-19 Publication Report” which features a snapshot in time (April 2020 to December 2022) of 607 works from sixty-five departments and services at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK).

While we continue to monitor MSK-authored COVID-19 scholarly works, we wanted to pause and take a moment to analyze this body of bibliographic references and share insights such as the top scoring papers via Altmetric, the top highly cited research papers, the increased usage of preprint servers, and a networking map that illustrates the research collaborations between MSK and other organizations.

What is special about this report is the time taken to annotate these citations with lay summaries written by the Research Informationists, helping to expand potential readership to a public audience.

Synapse is a public-facing resource and the authoritative bibliographic database of MSK publications, developed and maintained by a team of skilled librarians. This database provides a record of the research output written by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.  To view other Synapse-related publications, click here.

Please feel free to reach out to me to share your thoughts about this report. We would love to hear what you think!

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services