Re: paleonet Fabrication of some nannoplankton papers

["J.Young" <j.young@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Michael Jordon

This sounds rather serious - can you send a full citation of the reference
you are referring to - or at least the journal year. Incidentally the couple
of papers of El Dawoody that I am aware of do not contain obvious
plagiarisms and the images whilst unimpressive are not obviously from the
literature. 

Jeremy Young


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> From: Michael Jordon <michael_jordon9@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:37:32 -0800 (PST)
> To: <PaleoNet@nhm.ac.uk>
> Subject: paleonet Fabrication of some nannoplankton papers
> 
>   Fabrication and stealing in nannoplankton papers
>   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 ³On the biostratigraphic
> significance of nannofossils in the Paleogene of Egypt ³published in local
> journal named ³Egyptian Journal of Geology² .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 Dawoody¹s
> 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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