Tag Archives: COVID-19

Check Out the MSK Library’s COVID-19 Publication Report

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The Synapse team led by Jeanine McSweeney, Associate Librarian, Scholarly Communications, has published an online report entitled “COVID-19 Publication Report” which features a snapshot in time (April 2020 to December 2022) of 607 works from sixty-five departments and services at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK).

While we continue to monitor MSK-authored COVID-19 scholarly works, we wanted to pause and take a moment to analyze this body of bibliographic references and share insights such as the top scoring papers via Altmetric, the top highly cited research papers, the increased usage of preprint servers, and a networking map that illustrates the research collaborations between MSK and other organizations.

What is special about this report is the time taken to annotate these citations with lay summaries written by the Research Informationists, helping to expand potential readership to a public audience.

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 research output written by MSK researchers, clinicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.  To view other Synapse-related publications, click here.

Please feel free to reach out to me to share your thoughts about this report. We would love to hear what you think!

Donna Gibson
Director, Library Services

I Have Symptoms. My COVID Home Test is Negative. Now What?

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CNBC recently featured MSK’s Dr. Esther Babady in an article answering a question at the forefront of our minds: Why is my at-home COVID test negative when I have symptoms?

N. Esther Babady, PhD
N. Esther Babady, PhD

In the article, Dr. Babady hypothesizes that BA.4 and BA.5, the current most common COVID variants, may have undergone structural mutations that makes them more difficult for a home test to detect. She also says that people may not have enough detectable viral proteins early in the course of disease, and that some home tests may be better than others at detecting the current strains.  

Dr. Babady recommends getting a PCR test, which is more sensitive than home tests, and to isolate and wear masks around others if you have symptoms, even with negative test results. Even if you don’t have COVID, you can prevent spreading other viruses using these precautions.

Highlights from our list of MSK-Authored COVID-19 Publications

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In April 2020, we started tracking MSK COVID-19 related publications looking to quickly highlight any research, guidelines, perspective, or commentaries about the pandemic  authored by our MSK staff. The list has now grown to include 429 publications, 214 of which are from this year alone. 

Here are some highlights from those works published in 2021 based on their Altmetric score, which tracks the engagement of a publication online through its mentions in news stories, policy documents, blogs, tweets, and other social media. 

Click on the colored donuts to view view full details (keep in mind that scores fluctuate in real time):

Anxiety levels among physician mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2021 February 01; 178(2): 203-204.

 

 

A molecular single-cell lung atlas of lethal COVID-19. Nature. 2021 July 01; 595: 114-119.

 

 

Elective cancer surgery in COVID-19 free surgical pathways during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: An international, multicenter, comparative cohort Study. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2021 Jan 01; 39(1): 66-78.