A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under...

That is the point: the paper presents this as if it were an original idea, and other people cite it. There have been various blog posts ridiculing it, and for a while there was wikipedia article (subsequently replaced by a redirect to 'trapezoidal rule') [2].

[1] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/12/07/ncbi-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tai%27s_method&di...

Yeah that it has 209 citations and is now named after the author.

Also http://m.care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/10/1225.2.full...