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I've heard of cases where people just ripped off parts of another's work as PHD. I've never heard of someone submitting stolen work to a fellow he stole the wor

• majewsky 6y ago
  > someone submitting stolen work to a fellow he stole the work from When you submit a paper to a journal, you don't get to pick your reviewers. In fact, you most likely don't ever get to know who the reviewers are because the process is anonymized. But given that many areas of scientific inquiry are highly specialized, it isn't particularly surprising that if you rip off someone's work, that someone is going to be picked as a reviewer for your paper by chance.