NYMC Celebrates 26th Annual Faculty Author Recognition
New York Medical College’s (NYMC) prolific faculty authors were recognized for their published works at the 26th Annual Faculty Author Celebration, hosted by the Health Sciences Library on September 25.
It was a successful year for the College’s faculty authors, who collectively penned more than 800 articles, books, chapters and web publications in 2018. All of the publications’ citations and abstracts were entered into Touro Scholar, the online repository of scholarship produced by all Touro College and University System (TCUS) institutions. The 2018 edition of the Faculty Publications Book of the Touro College and University System was produced as a joint effort of the Touro College Libraries and the Health Sciences Library at NYMC.
The Willner Atrium and Lobby in the Medical Education Center were lively as faculty, students, staff and NYMC leadership turned out to celebrate and support their colleagues, mentors and friends. Salomon Amar, D.D.S., Ph.D., far left, vice president for research for NYMC and provost for biomedical research and chief biomedical research officer for TCUS, acknowledged the tremendous talent and grit required to be well-published in academia, saying, “Tenacity and dedication is the name of the game…and for your efforts, this administration is incredibly proud.”
Special recognition was given to individuals and departments for their efforts based on known citations and measurements, before Marie Ascher, M.S., M.P.H., second from left, the Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director, Health Sciences Library, offered her closing remarks. “It can be said that the primary functions of the modern-day university are to teach and to generate scholarship and knowledge through the conduct of research. While most of you participate heavily in both of these areas— today we, in particular, celebrate research and the generation of knowledge,” she said. “The publications we celebrate really are New York Medical College’s research footprint.”
2019 Faculty Author Awards
Research Article Published in Journal with Highest Impact Factor for NYMC First Author
Author: Long Yang, M.D., Ph.D., research assistant professor of microbiology and immunology
Citation: Yang, L., Wang, L., Ketkar, H., Ma, J., Yang, G., Mordue, D., & Wang, P. (2018). UBXN3B Positively Regulates STING-Mediated Antiviral Immune Responses. Nature Communications, 9 (1), 2329. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04759-8
Journal: Nature Communications (JIF: 11.878)
Fun Fact: Nature Communications is a DOAJ open access journal
Research Article Published in Journal with Highest Impact Factor for All Authors
Author: Mohammad Tavakkoli, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Citation: Griswold, M., Fullman, N., Hawley, C., Arian, N., Zimsen, S., Tavakkoli, M., GBD 2016 Alcohol Collaborators., Tymeson, H., & Venkateswaran, V. (2018). Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet, 392 (10152), 1015-1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2
Journal: Lancet (JIF: 59.102)
Research Article with Highest Number of Citations for NYMC First Author
Author: Alice Gottlieb, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology
Citation: Gottlieb, A., Blauvelt, A., Thaci, D., Leonardi, C., Poulin, Y., Drew, J., Peterson, L., Arendt, C., Burge, D., & Reich, K. (2018). Certolizumab pegol for the Treatment of Chronic Plaque Psoriasis: Results through 48 Weeks from Two Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Studies (CIMPASI-1 and CIMPASI-2). Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 79 (2), 302-314.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaad.2018.04.012
Citations: 19
Research Article with Highest Number of Citations for All Authors
Author: Mohammad Tavakkoli, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences
Citation: Griswold, M., Fullman, N., Hawley, C., Arian, N., Zimsen, S., Tavakkoli, M., GBD 2016 Alcohol Collaborators., Tymeson, H., & Venkateswaran, V. (2018). Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet, 392 (10152), 1015-1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2
Citations: 123
The data for the following awards is from PlumX Metrics:
NYMC First Author Publication with the Highest Number of Social Media Mentions
(Measures buzz via likes, shares, comments and tweets about research).
Author: Srihari S. Naidu, M.D., professor of medicine
Citation: Naidu, S. (2018). Performance Volume Thresholds for Alcohol Septal Ablation in Treating Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Guidelines, Competency Statements, and Now Data. The Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 34 (1), 13-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjca.2017.11.017
Social Media mentions: 91 (85 shares, likes, and comments and 6 tweets)
NYMC First Author Publication with the Highest Number of Mentions
(Measures public engagement via blog posts, comments, news mentions, and Wikipedia links about research).
Author: Tali Lando Aronoff, M.D., assistant professor of clinical otolaryngology
Citation: Lando Aronoff, T. (2018). Hell and back: Wife & mother, doctor & patient, dragon slayer. Bloomington, IN: Archway Publishing.
News Mentions: 30
NYMC First Author Publication with the Highest Usage
(Tracks abstract views, clicks, downloads, etc).
Author: Eric Altschuler, M.D., Ph.D., clinical associate professor of rehabilitation medicine
Citation: Altschuler, E. (2018). Animal-Assisted Therapy for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: Lessons from "Case Reports" in Media Stories. Military Medicine, 183 (1-2), 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/usx073
Usage: 8606
Faculty Author Who Published the Most in DOAJ Open Access Journals
(Uses data from the Directory of Open Access Journals, an online directory that indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed Open Access research journals.)
In 2018, 140 faculty members published 195 articles in 75 DOAJ-vetted journals. The open-access journal with the most NYMC publications was PLoS ONE (18) followed by Archives of Medical Science (10).
Wilbert S. Aronow, M.D., professor of medicine, published 6 articles in Archives of Medical Science, Clinical Cardiology and Therapeutic Advances in Cardiovascular Disease.
2018 Faculty Publication with the Highest Number of Downloads in Touro Scholar
Author: Christopher S. Leonard, Ph.D., professor of physiology, has been named interim chairman of the Department of Physiology
Ma, S., Hangya, B., Leonard, C. S., Wisden, W., & Gundlach, A. L. (2018). Dual-Transmitter Systems Regulating Arousal, Attention, Learning and Memory. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 85, 21-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.07.009
Fun Fact: The version in Touro Scholar that is available for download is the accepted manuscript or post-print.
Departmental Awards for the highest percentage of faculty publishing
Clinical - Neurosurgery (37.9%). Last year, their percentage was 27.6
Basic Sciences - Biochemistry (80%). Last year, their percentage was 70.6
SHSP - Public Health (20%). Last year, their percentage was 9.7
Photo from left: Salomon Amar, D.D.S., Ph.D., vice president for research for NYMC and provost for Biomedical Research and Chief Biomedical Research Officer for TCUS; Marie Ascher, M.S., M.P.H., second from left, the Lillian Hetrick Huber Endowed Director, Health Sciences Library; Jerry L. Nadler, M.D., MACP, FAHA, FACE, dean of the School of Medicine and professor of medicine and pharmacology; and Michael S. Wolin, Ph.D., professor of physiology and chair of the Library and Academic Support Committee.
