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.

We recently had the opportunity to work with the Epidemiology and Biostatistics department to create a set of customized Synapse groups. Here we speak with Yesenia M. Werner, Project Coordinator for the group, on how she and her colleagues use Synapse to streamline their workflows:

“Synapse has proven to be an incredible tool to help streamline workflows in our team. In a department with many investigators broken into multiple services, it was important to find a way to capture their published works in order to feature them appropriately on their CVs.

In our experience, being able to identify who published what could be quite cumbersome using tools like PubMed. In the event that an investigator had a common name such as “John Smith,” a database that can pull every John Smith/J Smith, etc. in the scientific community was particularly un-helpful. With Synapse, we are able to identify only the appropriate works by MSK investigators, which means any information we share within or outside of the MSK community is as accurate as it can be.

Being able to sort Synapse by date is also helpful for our team in producing a departmental newsletter. We can pull publications from a particular time frame and thereby highlight the most recent works in our publication.  Ultimately, Synapse allows for us to promote our institutional publications in a visually pleasing and streamlined way accessible by both internal and external entities.”

For more information on creating customized groups, or questions regarding Synapse, contact Jeanine McSweeney.

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.