Plagiarism again: Sreenivas and Srinivas, with an update on Marcu

In recent years many scientific journals noticed an increasing number of submissions of plagiarized papers. The Editor-in-Chief of an important international journal, that receives very many submissions every year, recently privately wrote us “I had to reject on such basis over a dozen of submissions just this year”. The smaller size of our journal limits the number of such situations, but does not eliminate them. We report here a few cases we encountered, in the hope that officially associating people with proved plagiarism cases can contribute to fight this highly unethical phenomenon. On the one hand articles of this kind make it easier to Editors of scientific journals to identify suspicious submissions by googling on the internet, and on the other hand we believe that they are a deterrent for (would be) plagiarists against future attempts.