Meet Your New (Research) Friend JANE

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Are you struggling to identify journals to submit your manuscript to? Do you want to check to see if there is any other literature written about your topic? Or maybe, look for researchers doing similar work?

JANE, the Journal/Author Name Estimator, is a program that can help you answer these questions and more.

By inserting information on your topic or manuscript (title and abstract, or simply keywords) JANE goes to work comparing the text you submitted with PubMed records, identifying the best matching journals, articles, or authors.

Behind the scenes, a similarity score calculation between each article and the text you shared is done. JANE then identifies the top 50 articles that are most similar to your text. Authors and journals are also combined to create a confidence score, which is then provided to you.

To learn more about JANE or explore other applications of this nature, don’t hesitate to ASK US!

Do You Know Any MSK Authors? Ever Wonder about MSK Research Activities?

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The 2018 Synapse Publications Report is now available to help answer these questions! This online report compiled by the Library provides an analysis and documents the publications produced by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals for the year in review. The final bibliography includes 4,602 works, comprised of references to research and conference papers, reviews, meeting abstracts, books and book sections.

Synapse is a public facing resource and the authoritative bibliographic database developed and maintained by a skilled team of information professionals. Their ultimate goal is to track the wealth of knowledge attributed to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

I hope that by browsing the 2018 Synapse Publications Report, readers will gain a sense of the contributions of MSK authors to the ever-growing body of scholarly literature. Readers can also view past reports.

Your thoughts about this report would be welcomed — feel free to send me an email and let me know what you think.

Donna Gibson
Director of Library Services

Of Mammograms and Men

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A study by MSK researchers published this month in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment and reported by AuntMinnie.com found that men at increased risk for breast cancer could benefit from screening mammograms.

The authors performed a retrospective review of 163 asymptomatic men at increased risk for breast cancer due to family history, personal history, or BRCA1/BRCA2 genetic mutations. After reviewing 806 screening mammograms done over nearly 7 years, the authors calculated a cancer detection rate of 4.9 per 1,000 mammograms, comparable to average-risk women. This indicates that screening mammography could be a useful tool in the high-risk male population, though the authors state that larger studies are needed to strengthen this conclusion. There are currently no guidelines on the use of screening mammography in men.