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former value, but not the latter, is substantially higher than the cross-citation level reported for earlier years. The two JEAB articles most often cited in JABA were published over 20 years ago and are concerned with establishing operations and the matching law. DESCRIPTORS: applied behavior analysis, basic research, citations _______________________________________________________________________________ For the past 30 years, behavior analysts have discussed real and ideal interactions between applied behavior analysis and the experimental analysis of behavior (e.g., Mace, 1994). Citation analysis provides an empirical method for examining interactions between the two. The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis ( JABA) is generally recognized as the flagship journal for applied behavior analysis; the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior ( JEAB) has the same status for the experimental analysis of behavior. Therefore, cross-citation rates provide a tenable index of the degree of interaction between the two. From 1983 through 1992, 2.4 % of JABA citations were JEAB articles, and 0.6 % of JEAB citations were JABA articles; these data suggest there was limited integration of the applied and experimental areas at that time (Poling, Alling, & Fuqua, 1994). Since the early 1990s, JABA editors have taken steps to foster productive interchanges between the basic and applied areas, including (a) publication of a series of articles on the applied significance of basic research findings, (b) publication of JEAB abstracts in JABA, and (c) appointment of members of the JEAB Board of Editors to the JABA Board of Editors. It seems that such steps should increase citation of JEAB articles in JABA. One of our purposes was to determine whether they did so. Poling et al. (1994) reported that two of the three JEAB articles most often cited in JAB