Research Productivity Among Practitioners in Behavior Analysis: Recommendations from the Prolific

Applied behavior analysis (ABA), the application of the principles of behavior to problems of social significance, relies on peer-reviewed research to establish and confirm the effectiveness of practical procedures across a wide variety of applied areas (Baer et al. 1968). These areas include, but are not limited to, the assessment and treatment of behavior excesses among individuals with intellectual disabilities, skill acquisition among children with autism, organizational behavior management, brain injury rehabilitation, behavioral gerontology, and health and fitness (Fisher et al. 2011).