Funny story from my gradschool days: My cohort had to take a class on research methodology. The instructor assigned us to review a paper he wrote but was rejec

Funny story from my gradschool days: My cohort had to take a class on research methodology. The instructor assigned us to review a paper he wrote but was rejected for publication. The fate of the paper after publication was that it was published as a "Technical Report" through the university, which is where rejected papers go to save face. One of the students decided to simple google the paper's abstract in completing the assignment to see what else was out there, and wouldn't you know, the full paper had been published in an obscure regional journal half way across the world. Everything was the same except the plagiarists made two changes to the paper: - They removed authorship of the true authors and added themselves - They added references to other papers they had written. That's it. That's all they changed. Everything was exactly the same, down to the figures. Down to the references of the true author's prior work. End result was the instructor was struck by how blatant it was. He contacted the publication and they issued a retraction. I don't know what happened to the plagiarists but I hope they learned a lesson!