Remembrances of issues past: Celebrating JABA's 25th anniversary.

The author looked back at 30 years of The Analysis of Verbal Behavior (TAVB).

He counted topics, authors, and types of articles to see if the journal stayed healthy.

No new data were collected; it is a birthday-style review, not an experiment.

TAVB was still alive and kicking after three decades.

Verbal-behavior research kept a steady heartbeat with regular issues and loyal writers.

The paper gives no numbers, just a thumbs-up that the journal is a safe place to send VB work.

Castañe et al. (1993) appeared the same year and told a darker story.

That team scanned JABA child studies and saw only 16% checked treatment integrity.

Same year, same field—one paper cheers journal health, the other finds holes.

The gap makes sense: Gettinger (1993) looked at TAVB content, while Castañe et al. (1993) looked at reporting quality in JABA.

Jump ahead to Falakfarsa et al. (2022) and the hole is still there; less than half of BAP studies show integrity data.

The cheer and the warning now fit together: TAVB stayed active, but across ABA journals we still under-report how well we actually ran our treatments.

If you study or teach verbal behavior, TAVB remains an open door for your manuscript.

But before you submit anywhere, add a treatment-integrity section.

Track if you delivered the intervention the way you promised.

Your paper will stand out and the field will finally practice what it preaches.