A Scientific Complaint

As an academic scientific researcher, I have to admit that it is highly annoying when other researchers publish on a topic as if they were the first to discover something and, do not cite your work that had discovered the exact same thing years before.  In fact, in some cases, not only have you published your findings, and then published follow-up extensions of it, but also have published review articles on that discovery and its implications in the field.  And despite all of that, easily accessible on PubMed or easily found in a Google search, others will, many years later, repeat the work and claim it as their own.  That is not only a form of plagiarism, but a waste of time and resources, and further shows the low quality of the editors and, especially the reviewers of that new article who haven’t bothered to look at whether the “new” work had already been done long ago.  

Certainly, there is a place for reproducibility and confirming results, but not presented as a novel discovery, nor published as such.

These things happen more often than you would think; it has happened to me several times already.