Now Available! The 2013 Journal Citation Reports®

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Thomson Reuters has recently released the 2013 Journal Citation Reports (JCR). JCR is an annual publication that offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data.  It provides a variety of impact metrics including the Journal Impact Factor and Eigenfactor from the Thomson Reuters citation indexes.  The 2013 JCR covers more than 10,800 journals from over 2,550 publishers in approximately 232 disciplines.

With Journal Citation Reports you can:

  • Sort journal data by clearly defined fields
  • Sort subject category data by clearly defined fields
  • Better understand a journal’s impact over time
  • Seamlessly link with other interfaces

You can access the 2013 Journal Citation Reports from here, or through the MSKsearch search box from the Library’s Website. For more information on Journal Citation Reports, please visit here.

New! Try a Medical Device Search in Embase

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Did you know the database Embase now allows for quick medical device searches? Follow these instructions to do a medical device search:

  1. Go to the MSK Library website. Enter Embase in the MSKsearch box and click the Search button.
  2. Click on EMBASE underneath Databases.
  3. Click on the Search menu on the top left and choose Device.
  4. Enter your device of interest (e.g. “insulin pump”) and click the Search button.
  5. Notice at the left of your results, there are gray boxes with options to limit your search. At the bottom, notice Device Trade Names and Device Manufacturers. You can search for specific ones by checking off the options you want and clicking the Apply button.

For more information on searching Embase and other MSK Library databases, contact Reference at 212-639-7439 or asklibrarian@mskcc.org.

Stopping the Growth and Spread of Cancer and More…

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Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

  • Researchers at Vanderbilt University have identified three genetic changes linked to an increase in breast cancer in East Asian women. Findings are reported in Nature Genetics.
  • Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a gene that stops the spread of cancer from the lungs to other areas in the body. Their findings are detailed in the journal Molecular Cell.
  • A new combination of drugs has been shown to control tumor growth and metastasis in mice according to a study by investigators at UC Davis, University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School.
  • A team of geneticists from the University of Geneva have published their findings on the non-coding genome of cancer patients. The results are found in Nature.
  • Research conducted at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has shown links between a set of genes known to promote tumor growth and mucoepidermoid carcinoma, an oral cancer that affects the salivary glands. More on this discovery can be found in PNAS.
  • How about a “universal” blood test for cancer? Researchers at the University of Bradford have developed a test that can be used to diagnose cancer. Early results are providing a high degree of accuracy. Go to FASEB Journal to find out more about this study.

Please feel free to contact Marisol Hernandez to share any comments.