Many research papers are so obscure that approximately zero people site them. Yet if you are a tenured professor it's publish or perish and there are often sig

Many research papers are so obscure that approximately zero people site them. Yet if you are a tenured professor it's publish or perish and there are often significant incentives. I suspect most of them would have gotten away with it if they changed the title a bit. There are also sometimes incentives for when your paper is cited, thus citing your own papers... even if they were stolen as well.