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<\/p>\nAs any hard-working scientist knows, it’s difficult to rack up a respectable publication list on one’s CV. <\/p>\n
\nOr is it? Today, while during a routine PubMed search, I ran into something puzzling: two seemingly identical articles:<\/p>\n
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\nCurious, I took a closer look. The bottom article appeared in Cell<\/em> in 2006, while the top was published a year later with the same title and author list in Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology<\/em><\/a>. The abstracts were also identical. Clicking on the top version, I found it to be a book chapter in a Springer title devoted to (according to its website) \u201cmeetings proceedings\u201d of \u201cmultidisciplinary and dynamic findings in the broad fields of experimental medicine and biology.” I thought it was a bit odd to publish a proceedings of work that had already been published, but at that point I supposed that book publishing can lag behind that of journals, so perhaps the relevant meeting had come first. <\/p>\n \nMy university doesn’t have access to Adv Exp Med Biol<\/em>, but a colleague who does took a quick look and said that, though the article indeed was the same, she couldn’t see any reference that the work had been published in previously in Cell<\/em> \u2013 except that in its Acknowledgements, there is a link to the Cell<\/em> paper’s supplementary data, suggesting that the Cell<\/em> paper was published before the book chapters were even assembled (ruling out the book publishing lagtime theory). Meanwhile, Adv Exp Med Biol<\/em> apparently has an impact factor; I assume Elsevier, the owner of Cell Press, gave permission for Springer to mirror the article without acknowledging its source, but was it really wise to give up citations on a high-profile paper to a close competitor?<\/p>\n \nMore interestingly, how common is this sort of double publication? And how do people feel about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As any hard-working scientist knows, it’s difficult to rack up a respectable publication list on one’s CV. Or is it? Today, while during a routine PubMed search, I ran into something puzzling: two seemingly identical articles: Curious, I took a … Continue reading