Question about book chapters and journal papers and repetition/(self-plagiarism?)

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Hi all! I have a question and wondered if you wise people might be able to help? I have written a book (social sciences, qualitative data).

There are a couple of chapters where I have very rich data and think there is probably scope to develop one or more journal papers. In my discipline, books also have much lower citation rates and prestige, so to get these ideas out there it would be preferable to supplement the book with journal papers. I should also add that the book is intended for non-academic audiences, so it uses theory but in a relatively light-touch and (hopefully) accessible way.

I am worried about self-plagiarism though - normally this works the other way round, I think, in that journal papers are reworked for book chapters, with permission from the journal. Is it doable the other way round, to develop similar themes but perhaps with slightly different data? Put another way, I am not sure how 'different' a journal paper would need to be and whether I am going to have to abandon this idea and use a completely different theoretical perspective for the same data to make this work.

Having written this I'm now not sure that the question even makes sense. But if anybody has any thoughts or experience I'd be grateful to hear from you!

I think you can overlap, but you basically need to have a slightly different angle for the journal paper, so you are kind of rewriting it. However it will be easier than doing something from scratch as you will know the data so well.

In science (where we publish books less often), you would expect the data to appear first in a journal article and only later in a book.

Secondary publication of a dataset or re-use is possible, but you should make it v clear to the reader that this is a re-analysis of an existing dataset to ask new questions etc.