Yesterday I started reading the paper by D˘anut¸ Marcu that you sent me. I liked
it: the results and proofs were not great but very neat. At the same time I
was surprised that he gives too few references on such an important subject,
and had a feeling that I had seen something like this somewhere. So today I
started checking and 15 minutes ago I discovered that the paper is a very slightly
modified copy of the paper by J. B. Shearer: “The independence number of dense
graphs with large odd girth” (The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 2 (1995),
http://www.combinatorics.org/).
This is the first time I discovered a 100% plagiarism in math publications. Then it
struck me that recently I heard about a plagiarist in a letter from a well known
mathematician. I found it - it was about Marcu!!! Please let the fact be well
known in OR community. Marcu has to get rejected no matter where he sends
his or “his” papers.