There's also the example is about how one medical researcher apparently rediscovered the trapezoidal rule, and managed to get a lot of citations to his discovery.
One of the comments on the original paper (the pubmed link that teraflop cites) did point out that it was "just" the trapezoidal rule, FWIW, so the only people one may want to find fault with were the who stopped at his paper and decided to cite it, rather than dig further.