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

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

There's a blurb about this in the November 9 issue of Library Journal
Academic Newswire. It notes the following about a response from Emerald's
Gillian Crawford: "She explained that, from 1989 to 2000, articles
considered 'to be of particular merit were occasionally published within
another MCB journal where it was felt that their content would be of
interest or benefit to the additional journal audience.' Crawford said
there has been no 'deliberate dual publication' since 2001".

I'll confess to being one of the authors with a "dual publication" in
Emerald journals, from the late 1990s. Phil Davis asked me about it as he
was doing his study this summer. In my case, the editor of the journal
that did the second publication contacted me and asked if he could reprint
it. I gave him my permission. Phil told me that there is no note on the
later article indicating that it was reprinted from the original.

My publications list has the article listed by the original citation, with
a statement at the end that notes "Also reprinted in...".

Bernie Sloan

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

Rick and others,

Based on my investigation, the authors reported that they did not resubmit
their articles to another Emerald/MCB UP journal but had received a
request from the publisher for permission to republish.  Did the academic
editors know?  In many cases that I could document, they did not.  If they
DID know and had followed editorial policy -- which was to peer review
each submission -- we would have seen slightly different articles being
published.  But we didn't.  In all of the 409 examples I discovered, the
two (or three) republished articles were verbatim copies (save some copy
editing and reformatting).  One editor of a management journal stated (on
condition of anonymity), "I can categorically state that when I was the
editor I was not aware of any such practice, and would neither condone nor
practice such republication."

To answer your question, it appears that editors (at least in some
documented cases) did not know of the duplicate republishing.

--Phil Davis