The thing that dismayed me about writing articles for the web is that the back links to my site generated by a published article appear to be ALL removed because they come from duplicated publication.
It's not that your article is removed by Google from the various publications that have published it, it is rather the fact that the
back links to your site created by your article's Resource Box are removed from your website itself!.
Consequently, the article may be published 2000 times on the web, and that number will indeed show up when typed into the search engines.
But will you get 2000 back links to your site? No, because they are removed by Google's duplicate content filter. In fact, all you need is for your article to be published more than once, and presto!
The Boy Scouts of Google have eradicated both back links.
John
PS As much as I like to write, I came to the conclusion that article writing for publication on the web is a waste of time, if you are doing it to get back links so that your website's ranking is boosted.