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Dear all I have briefly looked into these allegations. The paper referred to here is El-Dawoody A.S. (1998) On the biostratigraphic significance of nannofossils in the Paleogene of Egypt. Egyptian J. Geol., 42/2 365-392. This paper is a summary of application of the Martini (1971) nannofossil zonation to the Palaeogene of Egypt. It is not especially original or concise but seems inoffensive. Some phrases and even sentences from Martini (1971) do appear in the notes on individual zones but this does not occur to an excessive extent, and I did not detect any entire paragraphs being copied. Most of the text is written in idiosyncratic english which certainly was not plagiarised from any international journal The article is illustrated by two plates of light micrographs, the plates are very badly reproduced, but the identifications are fine. I cannot see any images which come from Martini (1971) or Perch-Nielsen (1985) and the only Martini (1986) paper I know of is illustrated with SEMs. So I do not see any evidence for serous ethical misconduct by El-Dawoody in this paper as alleged in M. Jordon's email. Jeremy Young > >> 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 >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Get your email and see which of your friends are online - Right on the new >> Yahoo.com > >
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