Currriculum Vitae

2013
Fraser, M. W., Howard, M. O., Sosin, M. R. & Thyer, B. A. (17 January 2013). Publishing research in peer-reviewed journals: Talk to the Editors. Invited Journal Editors' Workshop, presented at the annual convention of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Diego, CA.
Thyer, B. A., Nelsen, R., Gromer, J., Groton, D. & Lee, E. (19 January 2013). Systematic reviews as a doctoral seminar project: Four case examples. Symposium presented at the annual convention of Society for Social Work and Research, San Diego, CA.
Thyer, B. A. (20 January, 2013). The magic of social work. In Littell, J. H., Gambrill, E. & Thyer, B. A. A roundtable titled Misleading discourse in professional publications and potential effects on stakeholders. Presented at the annual convention of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Diego, CA
Thyer, B. A. (5 April, 2013). Preparing current and future practitioners to integrate research in real practice settings. A paper presented at the conference on Bridging the research and practice gap: A symposium on critical considerations, successes and emerging ideas, sponsored by the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, Houston, TX.
Thyer, B. A. (20 May 2013). Evidence-based practice: Myths and realities. Plenary paper presented at the 9th Conference on Evaluation for Practice, sponsored by the social work programs at University at Buffalo, SUNY-Albany, New York University, and Rutgers University. Chautauqua, New York, 20-21 May 2013.
Cesnales, N. & Thyer, B. A. (24 May 2013). Differences in health-related quality of life among persons living with HIV-AIDS. Paper presented at the annual national conference on Social Work and HIV-AIDS. Chicago, IL.
Thyer, B. A. (18 July 2013). Scientific exemplars in social work: A response. Paper presented at the Islandwood Roundtable on Science and Social Work, Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Thyer, B. A. & Myers, L. L. (1 August, 2013). APA's approved continuing education providers promote pseudoscience and mysticism: A wakeup call. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
Thyer, B. A. (28 September 2013). How to get published in the field of behavior analysis. Three hour continuing education workshop presented at the annual convention of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Daytona Beach, FL.
Thyer, B. A. (20 October 2013). An introduction to scientific skepticism. Paper presented at the monthly meeting of the Center for Inquiry-Tallahassee, Tallahassee, FL.
Thyer, B. A. (13 December 2013). Developing a successful program of professional publishing.

Invited lecture sponsored by the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2014
Epstein, I., Hanssen, D. V., Lalayants, M., Lo, H. & Thyer, B. A. (16 January 2014). The potential of clinical data-mining in evidence-based practice knowledge-building. Roundtable presented at the annual convention of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Antonio, TX.
Thyer, B. A., Lambert, S., Fraser, M. & Williams, J. H. (16 January, 2014). Publishing Research in Peer-Reviewed Journals: Talk with the Editors. Workshop accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Antonio, TX.
Albright, D. L., Campbell, R. R. & Thyer, B. A. (18 January 2014). Outpatient social work services with combat-related polytrauma patients. Paper accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Antonio, TX.
Barner, J., Holosko, M. J. & Thyer, B. A. (18 January 2014). Faculty members’ scholarly productivity: A controlled comparison of citation impact using the h-index. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual convention of the Society for Social Work and Research, San Antonio, TX.
Thyer, B. A. (6 February 2014). Evidence-based practice and social work: Myths and Misconceptions. 90 minute continuing education workshop presented at the School of Social Work, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
Thyer, B. A. (7 February, 2014). Behavioral social work: An overview. Two-hour workshop presented to the faculty of the School of Social Work, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
Thyer, B. A. (23 March, 2014). The design of outcome studies in social work: Quasi- experimental and experimental approaches. Plenary paper presented at the Symposium on Social Work Practice Research, held at the Peking University/Hong Kong Polytechnic University China Social Work Research Center, Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China.
Thyer, B. A. (28 March, 2014). How to get published in the field of behavior analysis. Tutorial presented at the annual convention of the Association of Professional Behavior Analysts, New Orleans, LA.
Thyer, B. A. (18 April 2014). Successful publishing in scholarly journals. Colloquium presented at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Thyer, B. A. (18 April 2014). Publishing in social work. Paper presented at the Symposium on Research Writing for Publishing in Journals, sponsored by the Graduate College, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
Pignotti, M. & Thyer, B. A. (23 May 2014). Pseudo-evidence-based practice: Thought Field Therapy and other meridian-based tapping therapies as exemplars. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Thyer, B. A. (April, 2014). Practice research using clinical data-mining methods: Building social work knowledge. Invited Plenary address given at the 3rd International Conference on Practice Research, Hunter College, New York City.

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc9Oumm93z0 (about 27 minutes, 30 seconds)
Accepted
Yaffe, J. (Chair) (accepted, January, 2015). A new reporting guideline for trials of social and psychological interventions: CONSORT-SPI. Panel presentation accepted for the annual meeting of the Society for Social Work and Research, New Orleans, LA.
Citation Impact
An examination of the Web-of-Science database, produced by the Institute for Scientific Information, discloses that my articles, books, and chapters have been annually cited by other scholars according to the following pattern:
During the ____ calendar year my work I was cited ___ times.

2013 56

2012 86

2011 79

2010 96

2009 53

2008 56

2007 47

2006. 
      59
      

2005. 
      45
      

2004. 
      41
      

2003. 
      38
      

2002 59

2001 47

2000 69

1999 73

1998 48

1997 51

1996 45

1995 59

1994 60

1993 45

1992 44

1991 38

1990 51

1989 46

1988 41

1987 43

1986 16

1985 25

1984 17

1983 7

1982 2

1981 2
According to Google-Scholar, as of June l, 2014 my h-Index was 40. My i10-index was 165. My ResearcherID # is A-2324-2009