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RE: Covert Article Republishing Discovered in Emerald/MCB UP 1989-2003

One quick question about this potentially explosive revelation:

> In several cases, neither the editor nor editorial board members had
> knowledge of this practice.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how an editor could unknowingly
republish a previously-published article, unless the author submitted it
without revealing that it had previously been published in another
journal.  Is that what seems to have happened in this case?

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu