ArticleThe Behavior analyst2015
JEAB Research Over Time: Species Used, Experimental Designs, Statistical Analyses, and Sex of Subjects.
Article in The Behavior analyst, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
- I'm Not Like the Others: Atypical Research Subjects in JEAB Publications.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2025Review
- Pigeon in a Box:Perspectives on behavior science · 2025Review
- Understanding Individual Subject Differences through Large Behavioral Datasets: Analytical and Statistical Considerations.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- The Evolution of Behavior Analysis: Toward a Replication Crisis?Perspectives on behavior science · 2020Article
- Furthering Open Science in Behavior Analysis: An Introduction and Tutorial for Using GitHub in Research.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Tutorial: Small-N Power Analysis.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Randomization tests as alternative analysis methods for behavior-analytic data.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2019Article
- Editorial: Replication and Reliability in Behavior Science and Behavior Analysis: A Call for a Conversation.Perspectives on behavior science · 2019Article
- Translating Behavior Analysis: a Spectrum Rather than a Road Map.Perspectives on behavior science · 2018Article
- Behavioral Research with Planaria.Perspectives on behavior science · 2018Article
- Commentary "A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where have all the Undergraduates Gone?" Collaborating with Behavior Analysts Could Avert a Crisis in Comparative Psychology.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
We examined the species used as subjects in every article published in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (JEAB) from 1958 through 2013. We also determined the sex of subjects in every article with human subjects (N = 524) and in an equal number of randomly selected articles with nonhuman subjects, as well as the general type of experimental designs used. Finally, the percentage of articles reporting an inferential statistic was determined at 5-year intervals. In all, 35,317 subjects were studied in 3,084 articles; pigeons ranked first and humans second in number used. Within-subject experimental designs were more popular than between-subjects designs regardless of whether human or nonhuman subjects were studied but were used in a higher percentage of articles with nonhumans (75.4 %) than in articles with humans (68.2 %). The percentage of articles reporting an inferential statistic has increased over time, and more than half of the articles published in 2005 and 2010 reported one. Researchers who publish in JEAB frequently depart from Skinner's preferred research strategy, but it is not clear whether such departures are harmful. Finally, the sex of subjects was not reported in a sizable percentage of articles with both human and nonhuman subjects. This is an unfortunate oversight.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.