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. 2018 Sep 18;12(2):466-472.
doi: 10.1007/s40617-018-00281-x. eCollection 2019 Jun.

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

Christina Alligood  1 , Cynthia Anderson  2 , Heather McGee  3
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Casting a Wider Net: an Analysis of Scholarly Contributions of Behavior Analysis Graduate Program Faculty

Christina Alligood et al. Behav Anal Pract. .

Abstract

As interest in careers in behavior analysis has grown, there has been a concomitant increase in the number of training programs providing coursework in behavior analysis. There is a growing need for indices of quality of these programs, with some authors recently suggesting that faculty research productivity might serve as one indicator of program quality. We continue this conversation, taking a broad view of faculty scholarly contributions by conducting a search of all articles authored by instructors in graduate-level Behavior Analyst Certification Board verified course sequences (VCSs) and published from 2000 to 2015 in peer-reviewed journals indexed by the PsycINFO database. The resulting list includes 8,906 publication records in 715 journals, authored by 1,232 instructors from 224 programs. Our analysis suggests that graduate-level VCS instructors have published in a broad array of journals and topic areas. We discuss implications of these data for prospective students' evaluations of program quality and fit.

Keywords: Behavior analysis; Faculty publications; Graduate training; Scholarship.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of InterestThe first and second authors are recent representatives to the Association for Behavior Analysis International Executive Council. The third author declares that she has no conflict of interest.

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Number of journals with instructors publishing in each of five ranges
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