STM publisher Elsevier has announced that the first installment of a benchmark report on worldwide cancer research activity. The report, designed to help inform and extend the effectiveness of the White House National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, together with an online Cancer Moonshot Resource Center, are part of Elsevier’s efforts to support the advancement of cancer research in general.
The benchmark report provides an overview of the world’s cancer research landscape. Data and analyses come from Scopus, a database of nearly one million global peer-reviewed publications and scientific proceedings, and Elsevier’s Research Intelligence solutions.
This report is intended for use in making informed decisions about investments to accelerate cancer research activities while mitigating some of the challenges involved in the Task Force’s goal to ‘achieve a decade’s worth of advances in five years.’
In addition, to complement Elsevier’s efforts, The Lancet Oncology’s 2016-17 Cancer Moonshot Commission, in consultation with the White House, will bring together more than 40 leading US clinicians and scientists in the cancer field to identify the most important priorities for research and investment to accelerate Moonshot plans. It will be chaired by Prof. Elizabeth Jaffee, MD, Deputy Director, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, and Prof. Chi V Dang, MD, PhD, Director of The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Its peer-reviewed findings are due out summer 2017.
Elsevier’s new Cancer Moonshot Resource Center provides free access to comprehensive research data, metrics and other online resources to help the public, researchers, health care providers, funders and government decision makers to learn more about the cancer research being done across academic institutions and industries globally.
Available for free on the Resource Center are: Cancer Moonshot benchmark report, first installment
Social media monitoring; updates from the US Cancer Moonshot Task Force; updates from The Lancet Oncology’s 2016-17 Cancer Moonshot Commission; access to research selected by Elsevier’s oncology journal teams; and related resources. Content will be expanded and updated continually.
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