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(August 11, 2009) Special Report The GS Cites Trap An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites to research conducted by various CoB faculty. As in past reports in this series, the data examined recently have been unadjusted GS cites. That is, there has been no accounting for self-cites in the overall data. This report addresses that issue by subtracting self-cites from the overall data, using a 6-Aug-09 GS cites search for ACC.

(August 11, 2009) Long Since Looking Back at Brain Drain Hits Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have highlighted some of the specifics of the $11-$12 million budget cuts being carried out now by the USM central administration. Preliminary reports like these place 5 tenured and 4 tenure-track faculty terminations in USM's CoB, with all of these coming via the termination of economics faculty through elimination of the CoB's economics programs. As reported, USMNEWS.net sources believe that most, if not all, of these ECO faculty will face some difficulty securing employment elsewhere, primarily as a result of gappy and relatively low quality research portfolios. Thus, their records do not reflect the quality of the records of several of the economists who departed the CoB between 2003 and the present. Some of these records rank among the best that the CoB has lost since 2003. The top 12 (incl. ties) of these are shown in Table 1 below.