Students have brought to my attention two instances of Mankind
Quarterly (published by the Council for Social and Economic
Studies) reprinting essentially the same article twice --
once, by putting another author's name on it (when queried,
the editor said the second name was a "pen name"), and the
other time by changing the article title (when queried, the editor
offered no explanation).

It seems to me that minimal assumptions underpinning the
growth of scholarship in any discipline are these: journal
articles are authentic new contributions, written by
identiable authors.

I have two questions.

1) Have you had experience with other journals, which
identify themselves as being scholarly and peer-reviewed,
reprinting articles? (On its Web site, Mankind Quarterly
identifies itself as being "a refereed academic quarterly
journal"). I am aware of Emerald/MCB republishing
articles in multiple journals under their ownership,
but the Mankind Quarterly practice is different in that they
have reprinted under a changed article title or a changed
author name.

2) In your opinion, is reprinting an article under a
"pen name," or a changed article title, plagiarism?
Plagiarism is defined as "publication as one's own, of the ideas,
or the expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical,
mechanical, etc.) of another." (OED)  If it is not plagiarism,
what is it?

Mankind Quarterly is an anthopology journal.  Although
it has a relatively small print subscription base (1,025 subscribers,
according to Ulrich's, 2005 ), it is included in Proquest and
EBSCOhost databases, fulltext from the 1980s on.

Thanks in advance for sharing information and insight on
this!

Topsy

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