Top Altmetrics: Highly Influential Research from 2018

New Content Item Presenting you the Top Altmetric-scoring 2018 articles across our open access oncology-related journals, including BMC, SpringerOpen and Nature.

*Journal of Translational Medicine*	First results on survival from a large Phase 3 clinical trial of an autologous dendritic cell vaccine in newly diagnosed glioblastoma
*BMC Medicine*	Associations of discretionary screen time with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer are attenuated by strength, fitness and physical activity: findings from the UK Biobank study
*Cell Death & Disease*	Dianhydrogalactitol induces replication-dependent DNA damage in tumor cells preferentially resolved by homologous recombination
*BMC Cancer*	Greater family size is associated with less cancer risk: an ecological analysis of 178 countries
*Blood Cancer Journal*	Defining cure in multiple myeloma: a comparative study of outcomes of young individuals with myeloma and curable hematologic malignancies
*Breast Cancer Research*	NR2F1 stratifies dormant disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer patients
*Genome Biology*	Negative selection in tumor genome evolution acts on essential cellular functions and the immunopeptidome
*Molecular Cancer*	Suppression of PDHX by microRNA-27b deregulates cell metabolism and promotes growth in breast cancer
*BMC Biology*	Nothing in cancer makes sense except…
*Diagnostic Pathology*	Analytic validity of DecisionDx-Melanoma, a gene expression profile test for determining metastatic risk in melanoma patients
*Genome Medicine*	Cancer Genome Interpreter annotates the biological and clinical relevance of tumor alterations
*Journal of Hematology & Oncology*	Cancer immunotherapy beyond immune checkpoint inhibitors
*Radiation Oncology*	Monte Carlo verification of radiotherapy treatments with CloudMC
*Journal of Medical Case Reports*	Roxithromycin monotherapy inducing a partial response in a patient with myeloma: a case report
*Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research*	CDK9 inhibitors in acute myeloid leukemia
*World Journal of Surgical Oncology*	Systematic review of single-incision versus conventional multiport laparoscopic surgery for sigmoid colon and rectal cancer
Cell Death Discovery	Autophagy and unfolded protein response (UPR) regulate mammary gland involution by restraining apoptosis-driven irreversible changes
Cancer & Metabolism	Switch to low-fat diet improves outcome of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in obese mice
Clinical Epigenetics	Adipose tissue inflammation and VDR expression and methylation in colorectal cancer
Infectious Agents and Cancer	Epidemiologic and economic burden of HPV diseases in Spain: implication of additional 5 types from the 9-valent vaccine
Experimental Hematology & Oncology	Methylome of human senescent hematopoietic progenitors
Cardio-Oncology	Risk of coronary events 55 Years after Thymic irradiation in the Hempelmann cohort
Cancer Nanotechnology	Gene therapy with RALA/iNOS composite nanoparticles significantly enhances survival in a model of metastatic prostate cancer
Cancers of the Head & Neck	Thyroid cancer risk in airline cockpit and cabin crew: a meta-analysis
European Radiology Experimental	Augmented reality for interventional oncology: proof-of-concept study of a novel high-end guidance system platform
Cancer Imaging	Changes in biodistribution on 68Ga-DOTA-Octreotate PET/CT after long acting somatostatin analogue therapy in neuroendocrine tumour patients may result in pseudoprogression
EJNMMI Research	Accuracy of tumor segmentation from multi-parametric prostate MRI and18F-choline PET/CT for focal prostate cancer therapy applications
Cancer Communications	Precision medicine becomes reality—tumor type-agnostic therapy
Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice	Central nervous system gadolinium accumulation in patients undergoing periodical contrast MRI screening for hereditary tumor syndromes
Applied Cancer Research	Liquid biopsy - emergence of a new era in personalized cancer care
Cell Communication and Signaling	Reawakening of dormant estrogen-dependent human breast cancer cells by bone marrow stroma secretory senescence
Cancer Convergence	Cancer dormancy and criticality from a game theory perspective
Cancer Cell International	LncRNA PVT1 promotes the growth of HPV positive and negative cervical squamous cell carcinoma by inhibiting TGF-β1
Clinical Sarcoma Research	Report from the 4th European Bone Sarcoma Networking meeting: focus on osteosarcoma
European Journal of Hybrid Imaging	The prognostic value of preoperative FDG-PET/CT metabolic parameters in cervical cancer patients
Biomarker Research	Fibronectin protein expression in renal cell carcinoma in correlation with clinical stage of tumour
EJNMMI physics	Comparison of PET/CT and PET/MR imaging and dosimetry of yttrium-90 (90Y) in patients with unresectable hepatic tumors who have received intra-arterial radioembolization therapy with 90Y microspheres

Back to BMC's Oncology Open Access Research page