There was an example not so long ago of a paper published in, I think, biology, where the author had invented a wonderful new technique for more accurate estimates of the area under a curve.
It was Simpson's rule.
CORRECTION:
It was worse than that. It was the trapezoidal rule:
It was Simpson's rule.
CORRECTION:
It was worse than that. It was the trapezoidal rule:
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract
The author named it after themselves:
and got 75 citations ...http://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researche...
Unbelievable.