Emerald Redux

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Monday that a librarian at Cornell University has discovered that a major scholarly-journal company, Emerald, has often published the same article in multiple journals without noting that the material had already appeared elsewhere.

"I found journals that were complete copies of one another," says Philip M. Davis, a life-sciences librarian at Cornell. He found that Emerald, a British company that publishes journals on management and information science, had republished 409 articles in 67 journals from 1989 to 2003. Mr. Davis says that he contacted the authors of the articles and found that, in some cases, Emerald had asked to republish articles, while in other cases authors could not recall whether they had been contacted.

Posted by Tom on November 24, 2004