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On June 20, Clarivate Analytics released the 2019 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), providing the 2018 journal impact factors (IF). The IF is based on the ratio of a journal’s citations in a given year to the journal’s total number of citable items from the previous two years. And, this information is always of interest to our author community!
The JCR also ranks journals by subjects, providing a useful tool for viewing journal impact within a specific subject category, such as Oncology. Shown here are the top 10 journals in Oncology out of the 229 listed in this category, along with the number of MSK-affiliated publications for each journal in 2018.
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A new research study published in JAMA Oncology has found that about 35% of cancer survivors live with chronic pain. One of the study’s authors is Dr. Robert Sidlow, MD, MBA, Head, Division of Survivorship and Supportive Care; Associate Chair, Patient Care Operations at MSK.
Dr. Robert Sidlow Image credit: MSK Digital Assets Library
Corresponding author Changchuan Jiang, MD, MPH, a medical resident at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai West, told Science Daily that the study is the “first comprehensive estimate of chronic pain prevalence among cancer survivors” and that the study results “highlight the important unmet needs of pain management in the large, and growing cancer survivorship community.”
The study also found that the prevalence of chronic pain is highest among certain types of cancer survivors – including bone (54.0%), kidney (52.3%), throat-pharynx (47.9%), and uterine (44.5%) cancers.