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(July 20, 2008) Special Report Duo-nomics An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials When it comes to finding "the greatest ever" out of economics, the first thought that comes to mind is the reported high productivity of many past and present members of that unit. Thus, to do the unit justice, we faced the prospect of having to analyze the records of a relatively large number of individuals. Insiders suggested we begin with former EFIBers, Mark Dickie and Franklin Mixon. From what reporters gathered, Dickie and Mixon both arrived during Black's administration of the CBA. Both have since moved on, with Dickie joining the economics faculty at the University of Central Florida during the Gunther administration of the CBA, and Mixon joining the economics faculty at Auburn University after the end of the Doty administration.

(July 20, 2008) Special Report "It Takes a Village . . ." An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials In light of recent reports on excessive numbers of co-authors and "academic slipstreaming," two issues that seem to plague the CoB's research profile of late, this Special Report takes a look at the number of co-authors that CoB faculty typically associate with in the process of completing their research projects. All of the data used in this report come from the individual CoB faculty webpages located at usm.edu, however those CoB faculty listing fewer than five journal publications on their individual intellectual contributions page are not included in this analysis.

(July 21, 2008) Special Report King of the B-Law When it comes to "the greatest ever" in business law, there really is no race. There is Ernest King, and then there is Ernest King. No other CoB BL faculty comes close. Let's begin. As shown below, King has produced at least one A-level journal publication, which is more than can be said for many of the SAIS' current and former faculty (SAIS is King's home department).

(July 28, 2008) Breaking News Journal Ranking Shenanigans Uncovered? HATTIESBURG – It is a common occurrence here at USMNEWS.net that in response to a readers comment about one report, USMNEWS.net reporters uncover information that relates to another issue. This seems to have happened again recently, after a reader pointed out that former CoB management faculty, Vaidy Jayaraman, deserved a look in "the greatest ever" contest in the CoB's management unit. When that investigation began, it was discovered that some of Jayaraman's journal publications were A-level journals in the "Production & Operations Management" section of the CoB's mid-1990s journal classification system. However, under the new CoB journal classification system, produced by the 2007-08 journal ranking committee that was headed by untenured assistant professor of economics Sami Dakhlia, these journals are either scattered all over the CoB organizational chart or altogether omitted.