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Dear Colleagues, You possibly saw sometime ago Julio Aguirre's paper on Imam's fraud. http://www.up.ac.za/organizations/societies/psana/Plagiarism_in_Palaeontology-A_New_Threat_Within_The_Scientific_Community.pdf http://www.ku.edu/~ifaa/Archives/Braga-Aguirre.htm http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20040922/02 http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20041008/03 (I didn't say exactly what has been reported!) It concerns red algae! But we also found the same problem in another paper dealing with green algae: http://www.ku.edu/~ifaa/Archives/Granier-Senowbari-Daryan.htm And more recently Mme Feist (and myself) found some new fraudulent uses of pictures in another paper of the same author: "Imam, M. M., and Refaat, A. A. 2000. Stratigraphy and facies analysis of the Miocene sequence at Gabal Hammam Sayidna Musa and Wadi Abura, southern Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 7, 385-408." http://www-sdt.univ-brest.fr/~bgranier/geologie/paleontologie/fraud-0.htm http://www-sdt.univ-brest.fr/~bgranier/geologie/paleontologie/fraud-1.htm http://www-sdt.univ-brest.fr/~bgranier/geologie/paleontologie/fraud-2.htm I am adressing this ms to Cenozoic micropaleontology specialists particularly because Imam also displayed some plates with planktonic (mostly) and benthonic foraminifera which he probably lifted from other authors' papers (and I am not that familiar enought with these materials). HOWEVER I found that Foram specimens he reported (Imam, 2003, Rev. Esp. Micropal.) as: Globigerina bulloides (his Pl.2, fig.6) is the Pl.9, fig.5 from Chaisson & Leckie (1993, Proc. ODP, SR, 130, as Globoquadrina baroemoenensis) Globigerina ciperoensis (his Pl.2, fig.7) is the Pl.9, fig.9 from Leckie et alii (same vol.) Globigerina angustiumbilicata (his Pl.2, fig.8) is the Pl.9, fig.9 from Chaisson & Leckie (same vol., as Globoquadrina ? cf. G. extans) Globigerina angulisuturalis (his Pl.2, fig.9) is the Pl.9, fig.10 from Leckie et alii (same vol., as ciperoensis) Globigerina angulisuturalis (his Pl.2, fig.11) is the Pl.9, fig.1 from Leckie et alii (same vol.) You can possibly help me to identify some more material ... because the guy was stupid enought to list in his references papers (or at least authors) from which he stole the pictures. Mostafa Mansour Imam is reported dead (cf. the Scientist ... though I get some doubts); in any case due to the "publicity" given to his fraud he probably won't publish again! BUT we aim at supporting future research in the areas/fields (stratigraphy of North Africa, Near East and Middle East, microfossils) he "investigated" by correcting figure descriptions and highlighting that there are possibly no data to support his interpretations. BG Hereafter I listed some references we found: Phillip G., Imam M. M., and Abdel Gawad G. I. 1997. Planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Miocene sequence in the area between Wadi El-Tayiba and Wadi Sidri, west central Sinai, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 25/3, 435-451. THREE PLATES pages 446, 447, 448 with planktonic FORAMS Imam M. M. 2001. Biostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Lower Eocene succession in the Bani Walid area, northwest Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 33/1, 69-89. ONE PLATE page 81 with planktonic FORAMS Imam M. M. 1999. Lithostratigraphy and planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Late Eocene-Middle Miocene sequence in the area between Wadi Al Zeitun and Wadi Al Rahib, Al Bardia area, northeast Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 28/3, 619-639. THREE PLATES pages 631, 633, 635 with planktonic FORAMS Imam M. M. 2003. Contribution to the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Miocene sequence at Al Khums area, Sirte basin, NW Libya. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, 35/2, 195-228. ONE PLATE pl. 2 with planktonic FORAMS ONE PLATE pl. 1 with benthonic FORAMS Imam M. M. 1998. Clavatorella salumensis, a new species of planktonic foraminiferal from the Early Pliocene of the Wadi El Salum area, northern Western Desert, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 10, 595-603. (I don't have a copy) Imam M. M., and Galmed M. A. 2000. Stratigraphy and microfacies of the Oligocene sequence at Gabal Bu Husah, Marada Oasis, south Sirte Basin, Libya. Facies, 42, 93-106. (I don't have a copy) Imam M. M. 2002. Biostratigraphy and paleoecology of the Early Pliocene sequence, Salum area, north Western Desert, Egypt. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, 34/1, 19-38. (I don't have a copy) Imam M. M., and Refaat, A. A. 2000. Stratigraphy and facies analysis of the Miocene sequence at Gabal Hammam Sayidna Musa and Wadi Abura, southern Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 7, 385-408. RED ALGAE and FACIES Youssef, El Sayed A.A.; Fahmy, S. E., and Imam, M. 1988. Stratigraphy and microfacies of the Miocene sequence at Gebel Sarbut El Gamal, west-central Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 177, 225-242. planktonic FORAMS, FACIES, and RED ALGAE Imam M. M., and Refaat A. A. 1999. The Tayiba Red Beds: transitional marine-continental deposits in the precursor Suez Rift, Sinai, Egypt. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 28/3, 487-506. CHAROPHYTES ONLY Imam M. M. 1996. Dasycladacean algae from the Turonian Wata Formation, Gebel Um Heriba, West-Central Sinai, Egyp. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 9, 527-538. GREEN ALGAE ONLY Imam M. M. 1996. Coralline red algae from the Middle Miocene deposits of Gebel Gushia west-central Sinai, Egypt. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 199, 1-15. RED ALGAE ONLY
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