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(October 14, 2008) Special Report Hub FINs An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials With a number of tenure and promotion decisions looming large in the finance section of the EFIB over the coming months, USMNEWS.net reporters are taking a look at the quality of the economics and finance research coming from the CoB’s FIN faculty.

(October 16, 2008) Still Going? A Look at New Journal Publications in the CoB There is little argument with the notion that much of the CoB's former research talent departed since former CoB dean Harold Doty took the reins of the organization back in July of 2003. At this point, with the arrival of new CoB dean Lance Nail, the CoB is barely hanging on when it comes to the research front. One problem Nail seems to be running into now is that many of the CoB's faculty vacancies -- and there have been many in the past few years -- were filled by the outgoing administration of former interim CoB dean Alvin Williams. As a number of reports here at USMNEWS.net have indicated, some of these late hires under Williams were questionable at best.

(October 19, 2008) Special Report "Gappy" An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials This installment in the Special Report series makes use of two of EFIB chairman George Carter's famous phrases. These are "gappy" and "in print." The first is often used by Carter in describing holes in a particular faculty member's publication record. The second is increasingly used by Carter to let young, untenured faculty understand that only journal articles that have actually been published by a journal, not those that are "in press" or "forthcoming," count toward tenure and promotion.

(October 22, 2008 updated and corrected October 24, 2008) Cites & Sounds A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by Top Source Several reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites scores for CoB faculty. These have generally aggregated all of each faculty’s GS cites and ranked the CoB’s faculty from first to last on the basis of an aggregate score. Like previous reports, this report ranks CoB faculty, from first to last, based on GS cites. However, it does so using only GS cites counts from each faculty’s top publication (i.e., each faculty’s most heavily-cited paper). Table 1 below provides that ranking, along with the year and outlet contributing the cites for each CoB faculty.

(October 23, 2008) CoB News, 23 October 2008 Cites & Sounds by UnitThe recent USMNEWS.net report on Google Scholar citations entitled “Cites & Sounds” ranks CoB faculty on the basis of the GS cites total to each individual’s top research paper (i.e., each’s most heavily-cited paper).

(October 24, 2008) Second Best A Look at CoB Google Scholar Cites by #2 Source Several reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites scores for CoB faculty. These have generally aggregated all of each faculty’s GS cites and ranked the CoB’s faculty from first to last on the basis of an aggregate score.