I have just finished reviewing of a paper (from, presumably, Asian authors, given the location of the empirical study) that was blatantly plagiarised. As soon as I started reading the paper, I felt something was wrong. The writting style changed and at times the flow of ideas did not make sense. The text moved from very well written and backed up arguments, to poorly expressed and confusing ideas. When I got to the conclusion, the evidence started to mount. even further. Not only some parts of the text mentioned sectors of the tourism industry that were not the focus of the paper, but at times the text did not make any sense in the context of what was done. I then started searching for the source, and identified two papers from which large chuncks of text had been taken from.
It is unbelievable that anyone can think they will get away with literally copying large parts of others' papers on to theirs. There is only one word to describe this: fraud attempt. They were unlucky this time because I had just read one of the papers they copied from. But the copying was so extreme that, if published, it would be discovered sooner than later. Shame on you!
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