Category Archives: Publications Spotlight

New Synapse Group: Graduate Medical Education

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Working with the Office of Graduate Medical Education, we’ve created a Synapse group to help track publications that include MSK trainees as authors. Over 150 trainees have been added to the group, who thus far in 2022 collaborated on at least 309 publications at MSK. We further broke down the trainees into 12 sub-groups relating to their clinical training program, such as Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics, Surgery etc., to allow for more granularity in highlighting publications by training program. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSK offers approximately 100 clinical training programs that range from residency level programs to advanced fellowship programs. “Our goal is to provide our trainees with top-notch clinical and scientific training and personalized guidance to become outstanding members of the medical community in their respective discipline.” 

If you are interested in creating a Synapse group for your department, or wish to learn more about how groups can help you track publications, please contact us.

Highlighting the Publications of Our Nurses

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The Department of Nursing at MSK is well recognized for its excellence in evidence-based, compassionate, patient care. In celebration of National Nurses Week, we’d like to highlight our nurses and their contributions to advancing both cancer and nursing scholarship. Through the Synapse Nursing Group, we collect and display our nurses’ works. In 2021, they contributed to 157 publications, including research articles, conference presentations, reviews, and editorials.

We also have a group specifically for Advanced Practice Providers, tracking the publications of our Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists. Click on the “works” section of each group to view their publications and join us in thanking our nurse’s for all they do at MSK. 

Now Available Online: Research In Review: An Analysis of MSK Publications 2016-2020

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The Synapse team led by Jeanine McSweeney, Associate Librarian, Scholarly Communications, publishes annually the Synapse Publications reports, showcasing our authors’ contributions to the body of scientific knowledge and their research and clinical activities associated with Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center.

This year I am delighted to share that we have added a new report entitled, “Research In Review: An Analysis of MSK Publications 2016-2020,” which dives deeper into the publications affiliated with the Center. This report provides insight into the variety of existing metrics used to measure research impact at an article-, journal-, or author-level. In the period covered in this report, the Synapse team retrieved and curated over 25,500 works, and it is with these citations that we share one aspect of a very complex research story. This report highlights the demographics of our author community, existing metrics, and how research impact is gauged. In addition, we share interesting facts about publication-related datasets gleaned from a variety of credible resources such as PubMed Central® (PMC). Our intentions in producing this report are simply to raise awareness of possible ways in which to view research contributions.

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 intellectual output written by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

We hope in the future to produce other “Research In Review” type publications.  Please feel free to reach out to me to share your thoughts about this report.

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services