[nautilius]

In my experience, journals are surprisingly (?) uninterested in these sort of things. The university will then just refer to the journal and reply that the claim of plagiarism must be fabricated as the journal would surely have done something.

[barry-cotter]

It would be surprising if you expected universities to live by the ideals they profess but experience teaches that they don’t.

[flybrand]

I sold a line of high end r&d tools to university labs; they became engines to knock off each others work. The least ethical group of buyers I ever worked with!

[nautilius]

“Surprising” refers to journals, not universities. It’s completely unsurprising (albeit unethical) that universities take the easy way.