An Alternative Measure of Research Productivity Among Behavior Analytic Graduate Training Programs: a Response to Dixon et al. (2015)

Top 10 Responses to the Commentaries on Dixon, Reed, Smith et al. (2015)

“…During our own data collection, we observed that the article count generated by a specific search could vary somewhat from day to day. 1 Consequently, we are not surprised that several commentators proposed alternative metrics for evaluating scholarly productivity (e.g., Maguire and Allen 2015;Wilder et al 2015), and we concur with them that details of faculty productivity rankings will vary as a function of the specific metrics employed. 2 We are nearly as certain, however, that any credible metric will lead to replication of our main findings, that most ABA faculty do not publish much.…”

Casting a Wider Net: an Analysis of Scholarly Contributions of Behavior Analysis Graduate Program Faculty

“…They reported that faculty in 67.6% of training programs included in their analysis produced 10 or fewer publications and that faculty in 14 programs had not published any articles in the selected journals. Wilder, Lipschultz, Kelley III, Rey, & Enderli (2015) conducted a follow-up review of the same programs identified in the Dixon et al (2015a) paper but, to reduce bias against newer programs, restricted dates of publication from 2000 to 2014. In addition, Wilder et al (2015) included only empirical studies published in three of the same journals identified by Dixon et al (2015a; Behavior Analysis in Practice, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior) and three other journals chosen for their focus on applied behavior analysis (Behavioral Interventions, the Journal of Behavioral Education, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management).…”

“…Wilder, Lipschultz, Kelley III, Rey, & Enderli (2015) conducted a follow-up review of the same programs identified in the Dixon et al (2015a) paper but, to reduce bias against newer programs, restricted dates of publication from 2000 to 2014. In addition, Wilder et al (2015) included only empirical studies published in three of the same journals identified by Dixon et al (2015a; Behavior Analysis in Practice, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior) and three other journals chosen for their focus on applied behavior analysis (Behavioral Interventions, the Journal of Behavioral Education, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management). Wilder et al (2015) conducted their review via the journals themselves and assigned publication credit to academic programs with which each study's authors were affiliated at the time of publication.…”

“…In addition, Wilder et al (2015) included only empirical studies published in three of the same journals identified by Dixon et al (2015a; Behavior Analysis in Practice, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior) and three other journals chosen for their focus on applied behavior analysis (Behavioral Interventions, the Journal of Behavioral Education, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management). Wilder et al (2015) conducted their review via the journals themselves and assigned publication credit to academic programs with which each study's authors were affiliated at the time of publication. Although the two reviews identified somewhat different "Top 10 Lists" of research-productive programs, both defined research productivity as publication within a selection of behavior-analytic journals.…”

“…In light of recent calls for behavior analysts to broaden the scope of their applications (LeBlanc, Heinicke, and Baker, 2012;Normand and Kohn, 2013) and to reach out to a wider audience by authoring popular-press books (Vyse, 2014) and publishing in nonbehavioral journals (Friman, 2014;Schlinger, 2014;Wilder et al, 2015), it may be useful to take a broad view of faculty scholarly contributions when evaluating graduate programs. First, faculty who heed the aforementioned calls may publish behavior-analytic work in journals other than those reviewed by previous authors (Reeve, 2015;Wilczynski, 2015).…”