I presume the OP is looking for examples from mathematics. Here is one: Hadrien De March, Nizar Touzi: <A HREF="https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08298">Irreducible convex paving for decomposition of multi-dimensional martingale transport plans</A> (submitted February 27, 2017, at 14.23 hours) Jan Obłój, Pietro Siorpaes: <A HREF="https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08433">Structure of martingale transports in finite dimensions</A> (submitted February 27, 2017, at 18.52 hours) The second paper explains: > Finally we note that we have hoped to make this paper publicly > available only after having proved Conjecture 1.3. However we have > been recently made aware of a parallel and independent work of De > March and Touzi who study the same problem and obtain similar > results using different techniques. Consequently, we have agreed to > simultaneously make our works publicly available.