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(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.

(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:

(August 6, 2009) Special Report 10 Over 100 An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials A recent search by USMEWS.net reporters turned up 10 different CoB faculty who have each garnered more than 100 Google Scholar cites. These 10 faculty are listed in order below.

(August 7, 2009) Special Report Tedious An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials USMNEWS.net hears from readers from time to time, and one theme that has come across over the past three years pertains to the research records of CoB accounting professors Stanley Clark and Charles Jordan. Their heavily co-authored research profiles have been described as being overly represented by tedious studies of accounting standards amendments, and that much of their work is repetitive/redundant, perhaps in an effort to "pump up" their respective research credentials. That being said, the recent research on Google Scholar cites afforded USMNEWS.net reporters an opportunity to do at least a cursory examination of the records of Clark and Jordan. Some of the findings are reported below.