(July 28, 2009) Inherited Legacy The recent re-running of the 5-July-07 report, Games People Play, about former SoA
director Steven Jackson's double-counting highlights the legacy that new SoA director Kirby E. "Skip" Hughes (pictured
below) inherited in July-09. Just what has Hughes done with this legacy since assuming the SoA reins a few weeks ago?
His first official duty was to "reward" former SoA directors Robert Smith and Roderick Posey with larger, more secluded
office spaces on the second floor of JAG. In providing such a reward, Hughes seems to be rewarding Smith's past
double- and triple-counting, as reported in Double and Triple Counting in Accounting from the same spring/summer
2007 time period.
(August 3, 2009) 6,500 Published Articles by Duane Cobb CoB dean Lance Nail should just come out with it – "it" being a
press release stating that CoB faculty have a combined "more than 6,500" published articles on issues related to their
respective disciplines or fields. That would be "more than 100" for each of the CoB's 65 or so faculty across disciplines
ranging from accounting to tourism management.
ARTICLES CONCERNING
RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY
(August 5, 2009) CoB News, 5 August 2009 ECO GS Cites As speculation continues regarding the possible elimination
of the CoB's economics program, CoB News staffers decided to examine the current Google Scholar citations of the
CoB's 10 economists.
(August 6, 2009) Painting by Numbers Yet Again A Look at Google Scholar Cites, Aug-09 With talk of $2 million budget
cuts and losses of academic programs in USM's CoB, it seemed like the proper time to bring back USMNEWS.net's
series on Google Scholar cites to CoB faculty. Table 1 below reports the most recent (Aug-09) data, which will be the
focus of a number of reports here at USMNEWS.net over the next few days. The faculty names are color-coded by unit: