I don't know. I guess maybe they thought by moving it into a different field meant that we wouldn't notice. I originally found out about it because I got an email from Google Scholar about "new related research" and immediately recognized the problem.

Here is the PubPeer comment: pubpeer.com/publications...

I couldn't absolutely confirm the identity of the person involved because of their somewhat common name but I have an unconfirmed idea of who I think it is and I created a calendar reminder to check in on that person's CV quarterly.

I submitted a PubPeer comment, documented the similarities extensively, and emailed the publication. I really hope something comes of this. I've not identified the plagiarist with certainty yet (based on a common name) but I will continue to pursue that as well.

Oh no! It gets worse. They published lightly different versions of the same thing to multiple places

An archaeological paper originally that was lightly rewritten and submitted to a civil engineering journal.

I did this as a sort of test run for a "real" app I have in mind for a archaeological teaching exercise. Basically a game that teaches commons dilemmas in the context of irrigation communities.

At this point whatever works

I thought he had it for a second