I had a three-spread academic article published in a national history magazine this month (just a couple of days ago). I've just learned that the article has been published under someone else's name. I am pretty upset about it, as first of all, of course you want your work to be in your name, but also it was an important article thinking about my academic writing.
I am going to contact them tomorrow, but I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else. How did you handle it? Or how would you handle it if it were to happen to you? I am not quite sure yet about exactly how upset I am or how to handle it.
In my experience with both academic writing and my second hand knowledge of magaziene and journals, it happens, and it's almost always an honest mistake - someone reads something wrong, or credits the wrong piece to the wrong person etc. My hubby has a friend who has, just this week, been credited incorrectly in all the publicity material for a MASSIVE festival.
What you need to do is to contact the journal and tell them. They will usually print a correction for the print versions and update any online matters. In terms of YOUR use of the article for portfolio etc, so long as you have the article and any correction printed, or, if no correction is printed an email/letter from the publication over the matter, then that should cover it.
Wow, that's really surprising considering this magazine is supposed to be a "professional" publication. I think you should be okay contacting them, but keep in mind this is a risk all writers face when submitting their work anywhere.
'Professional' publications make mistakes all the time. Trust me on this. You'd think it shouldn't be difficult, but you'd be surprised by how often mistakes are made. From my own limited experience, getting a name wrong is nowhere near the worst events.
I agree that in a perfect world it shouldn't happen, but it does, and mostly because you are dealing with dozens, sometimes hundreds of contributors. The STORY or ARTICLE is what they are concerned with, who wrote it is far down on the list. I know that my journal friends talk about 'that Rowland story' or 'the article about Stoker' rather than contributors names. And while the name is attached to the entry, sometimes things get confused.
I'm not making excuses, but it happens.
What do you mean it will appear under another name? Why would they do that? I think you would be justified in withdrawing the piece unless you signed a contract agreeing to this.
I think, from what I've read, that it's been a mistake - possibly another contributors name. It's pretty crap, but it happens sometimes. Not often. But sometimes.
It's hard to withdraw a piece once it's in print. However, as I said above, you can contact them for a correction in print, and, if it's an online piece, you can get them to change the info immediately.
I've had similar problems with academic journals which have printed my name incorrectly (one called me Nuala, instead of Claire. But there is another professional in my field who is called Nuala and shares the same surname and with whom I am friendly, so it was an honest mistake by someone who got confused).
When you put this page in your portfolio (forgive me, I know little about non-fic portfolios of this type, so could be way off here), cut out the page with the correction and attach it, or link to it (if you're just linking to articles), and explain with a note or a line in the email that a mistake was made when they published it but their correction is right there proving you are the author of the piece.
I am so sorry this happened.
What Stacia said. So long as you have the article and any printed correction, or, if there was no printed correction, an email/letter from the publication addressing the matter, then it shouldn't matter in terms of portfolio.
In terms of disapointment though, it's horrible, and I'm sorry.
If this was a professional scientific journal, they would have sent page proofs for you approval.
I've been published by several big scientific journals and not once have I , as a contributor, ever been sent a proof. Perhaps things are different in other scientific fields (mine is veterinary and agriculture based) but I can honestly say that I never got a proof.
I'm sooo sorry! I had it once happen that an article appeared without a name at all, but not the wrong one. 
