Dear Paleonet colleagues
In the early of this year (2006), during the searching of the papers related to Paleogene nannoplanktonic biostratigraphy in North Africa, some of my colleagues Hindy, S. from Egypt, working in the field of Paleontology (Paleogene nannoplanktons) sent me a paper entitled “On the biostratigraphic significance of nannofossils in the Paleogene of Egypt “published in local journal named “Egyptian Journal of Geology” .while I was reading it , I found some thing bizarre in this manuscript that discuss the calcareous nannoplanktonic zones from the Paleogene of Egypt and written by El Dawoody, A.S. (from, Geology Department, Cairo university), I discovered that some paragraphs in the text are plagiarized from other literatures( Martini,1971, 1976, 1986) i.e using cut and paste strategy especially in his systematic part. But the most outstanding thing is that some of the images
representing the Egyptian nannoplanktons are duplicated in the other papers of the same author ,in fact images of Paleogene from other localities published by Martini (1971, 1986) and another ones Perch – Nielsen, K. (1985). Subsequently I searched for previously published papers of the same author listed in his paper published in Egyptian Journal of Geology,vol. 42 (2), 1998. I found that this author had lifted some images from other papers . So I sent a message to my colleague telling him what I have found and also reported me that most of El Dawoody’s papers that discuss the Paleogene of Egypt were stolen from other Ph. D. theses. So I want to warn the Paleontological .Michael Jordon
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