However, as discoverability increased in the 20th century and the aforementioned concerns arose, critical views of redundant publication, beyond merely reproaching vanity, took shape.
A formalization of the policy of disallowing duplicate publications was given by Franz J. Ingelfinger, the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, in 1969.
One tool developed in 2006 by researchers in Harold Garner's laboratory at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas was Déjà Vu,[2] an open-access database containing several thousand instances of duplicate publication.
There is still a large proportion of doctors and other professionals in many countries who have limited access to international journals and many lack language skills in English.
Re-publication serves the goal of bringing important information to new readerships, which makes it analogous to some instances of duplicate publication on that score.