Is it possible/acceptable to publish the same article in 2 journals, if one is un-categorized? So as the title says I got the opportunity to publish my article right around the time my article has already been accepted by other student journal.
My question now is - is it acceptable to publish an article in both journals, with informing the editorial board first, if in the case of student journal I'm not getting any academic points for it?
I know that self-plagiarism is seen as publishing your paper multiple times in categorized journals to cheat the system for academic progression, but what is the general stand on an issue like in this case?
It will most likely depend on the status of the &quot;student journal&quot;. We had a &quot;student journal&quot; which was, officially, an archive of master theses in our program. As such, it is comparable to an archive of proceedings of a conference and does not prohibit submission to internationally recognized journals (or elsewhere) [in our field, &quot;conference papers&quot; do not exist - there are posters, but work presented on posters is usually later published in a journal paper without any issues].
Many of the papers published in this student journal ended up in high-ranked international journals without problems.