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(March 21, 2011) Special Report Pollittely Played A New Type of Publishing Shenanigan Confronts the CoB Long-time visitors to USMNEWS.net are aware of the many sketchy publishing practices that have occurred within USM’s b-school over the past few decades. The USMNEWS.net Archives contain many reports and editorials about double-counting, publishing in vanity journals, politicized journal ranking endeavors, and many more dubious exercises of the “scholarship” variety. With the 2007-08 hiring of assistant professor of marketing Wesley Pollitte, pictured below, a new issue appears to have popped up on the CoB’s sketchy scholarship radar.

(May 24, 2011) Is the CoB’s SoA a Twilight Zone? A Guest Viewpoint The USM business college’s (CoB’s) two newest accounting faculty, Kirby “Skip” Hughes and Michael Dugan, were said to be big-time researchers. Hughes came to USM from LSU, while Dugan came in from Alabama – both top tier national universities. However, a recent perusal of the CoB’s School of Accountancy’s (SoA’s) new journal articles webpage reveals that these two scholars are now publishing in the same types of low-level journals in which so many of the CoB’s long-time accountants have been, and are still, publishing.

(June 25, 2011) Dear www.eaglepost.net readers, I’m pleased to see you visiting www.usmnews.net. I’m also pleased to offer you the ppportunity to review some of my current research at the Social Science Research
Network. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=397169.

(June 26, 2011) Research at the School of Accountancy University of Southern Mississippi Part 1 In a recorded meeting with Director “Skip” Hughes (he insisted on the recording), he revealed the following of his philosophy about research and journal publications (previously reported in the series “Things are going to change around here.”):

(June 27, 2011) Research at the School of Accountancy University of Southern Mississippi Part 2 Here’s what the list of School of Accountancy’s research looks like when the list is corrected for a marketing ploy of duplication, commonly called puffery, and research done at institutions other than the University of Southern Mississippi.