Mendeley Institutional Edition: New Social Reference Manager @MSK

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As of Spring 2023, MSK now has an institutional subscription to Mendeley Reference Manager. Mendeley Reference Manager is a “web-based citation manager that helps you simplify the tasks of building and organizing your reference library, making notes and annotations across papers, collaborating with others, and inserting citations and bibliographies into the papers you’re writing.”

How do I use my MSK institutional credentials with Mendeley?

Creating a new Mendeley account connected with your MSK institutional credentials

Connect an existing Mendeley or Elsevier account to your MSK institutional credentials

Like traditional citation management tools (for example, EndNote), Mendeley allows users to easily harvest and manage their references, to read and annotate their PDF attachments, and to cite research and format their bibliographies while they write. Similar to other social reference managers like Zotero, however, Mendeley also has some online collaboration features and academic social networking functionality that are definitely worth exploring.

Most notably, Mendeley lets users share their references and annotated PDFs using groups.

With MSK’s institutional subscription to Mendeley, users can now take advantage of 100 GB of personal storage (versus 2 GB in the free version), 100 GB of team storage (versus 2 GB in the free version), an unlimited number of private groups (versus 5 in the free version), and the ability to have 100 members per group (versus 25 in the free version).

Launched in 2008 but acquired by Elsevier in 2013, Mendeley is well-integrated into tools like Scopus and ScienceDirect that makes logging in and exporting citations to seamless. Beyond helping with citation management and formatting bibliographies, the Mendeley platform collects data on how users interact with scholarly documents, generating anonymized usage data about its readers that it then openly-shares (via the Mendeley API) with tools like Altmetrics, where the data serves as one type of social media attention or alternative metric of research impact (see an example in the recent MSK Library blog post “View the Impact of Your Research in Synapse”.

To learn more about Mendeley, explore the Mendeley training guides available on the vendor’s website and/or view a quick product video overview (2:24 min). In the upcoming weeks, please do keep an eye on the MSK Library’s Citation Management LibGuide and the training class calendar for much more to come on Mendeley.

Further reading:

Elston DM. Mendeley. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2019 Nov;81(5):1071. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.06.1291. Epub 2019 Jul 3. PMID: 31279032.

Chen PY, Hayes E, Larivière V, Sugimoto CR. Social reference managers and their users: A survey of demographics and ideologies. PLoS One. 2018 Jul 11;13(7):e0198033. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198033. Erratum in: PLoS One. 2018 Aug 9;13(8):e0202315. PMID: 29995889; PMCID: PMC6040870.

Thelwall, M. (2018). Early Mendeley readers correlate with later citation counts. Scientometrics, 115(3), 1231-1240.

Questions? Ask Us at the MSK Library!

View the Impact of Your Research in Synapse

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Whether for a grant proposal, annual review, CV, or just plain curiosity, authors often seek to measure the impact of their research. Synapse, our database of MSK authors and their publications, is a quick and reliable source for two common research metrics: citation counts (Dimensions), and online attention (Altmetrics).  From your author profile page, you can select any of your publications and quickly view the current research impact (if available) of your work via these two products from Digital Science.

CSF1/CSF1R signaling inhibitor pexidartinib (PLX3397) reprograms tumor-associated macrophages and stimulates T-cell infiltration in the sarcoma microenvironment. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 2021. DOI: 10.1158/1535-7163.Mct-20-0591

Taking a look at this example record, you can see that the article has been cited 45 times, according to Dimensions. Clicking on the citation badge links out to the Dimensions page, allowing you to directly see the works that have cited your article.  The article was also mentioned by 5 news outlets, 1 tweet, and has 35 readers in Mendeley.

Altmetric detail page

If you click on the colored donut you will be taken to the Altmetric page where you can view additional information regarding the paper’s online attention, such as direct links to news stories and tweets. 

They also provide additional details comparing the article to other tracked outputs of a similar age and/or source journals. Our example is in the top 5% of all research outputs tracked by Altmetric, and the top 97th percentile of all outputs from the same source journal and age. 

For assistance on research metrics or questions about Synapse, contact us. 

Breast and Uterine Cancer in the News

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MSK experts in breast and gynecological cancers were recently featured in the media.

Photos of Dr. Maxine Jochelson and Dr. Ginger Gardner.
Dr. Maxine Jochelson (left, photo by Richard DeWitt) and Dr. Ginger Gardner (right, photo by Karsten Moran).

Verywell Health spoke to Dr. Maxine Jochelson for an article on breast cancer screening best practices. A recent study used epidemiological data broken down by race and ethnicity to conclude that different populations should start screening for breast cancer at varying ages. Dr. Jochelson said that the potential for false positives is not a reason not to get screened, and that women should work with their healthcare providers to determine the screening schedule that is right for them.

The New York Times featured Dr. Ginger Gardner in an article about uterine cancer. While US uterine cancer rates remain low they are rising, especially among Black and Hispanic populations. Dr. Gardner said that family history and health conditions like diabetes and hypertension increase a person’s risk for the disease. Patients should pay attention to symptoms, including unexpected vaginal bleeding or spotting, and get examined if symptoms are present.

Learn more about MSK’s Female Sexual Medicine & Women’s Health Program.