Looks like International Studies Quarterly published my September 2013 article again a second time in December 2013.  This is obviously an error by the publisher and I contacted the journal.  But I might have two versions floating out there for some time.

We had beers last night to celebrate a dissertation defense (and a tenure-track job!) and chatted about what this means.  Some suggestions:

• This could be a really lame natural experiment.  How does publishing in September versus December affect publishing?
• Marketing research shows that you have to bombard consumers repeatedly to be effectively.  I hope ISQ can publish this article every couple of months.
• My citations will be split across two articles.  This could affect my H-index in Google Scholar.  That was from Debbie Downer.
• I could claim that this is a replication study.  A perfect replication study.
• Years from now I might have some university administrator look into self-plagiarism allegations.  Yes, it is the same article.  But no, I did not submit it twice to the same journal and got it published in the same year.  That would take more guts than I have.  For the record, I did not submit this same article twice.

I have another long-run issue with Google Scholar.  My most cited paper is incorrectly indexed on Google Scholar.  Instead of listing me as the sole author, they have all of the acknowledgements as the authors.  I knew I should have acknowledged myself.

When I went up for tenure I emailed Google Scholar and got a response that was something like, “it looks like we made a mistake.  But we don’t fix citations based on individual requests.  Thanks for contacting us.”

I sent another email this morning.  We’ll see what happens.

To be honest, I’m not losing any sleep over these two things too seriously.  What can I do other than inform ISQ of their mistake and send an email to Google?  Plus I have a 2.5 year old and 6 month old.  I lose sleep in other ways.

But citations do matter.  Anyone have related stories to share?