To follow up with the Monday, July 9 post from Phil Clapham regarding Syrawood Publishing and the book of republished *PLoS One* articles entitled *An Integrated Study of Marine Mammals*, please be on the lookout for similar publications from these other publishers: Syrawood Publishing https://www.syrawoodpublishinghouse.com Callisto Reference https://callistoreference.com/homes Foster Academics https://fosteracademics.com/homes/contact Clanry International https://clanryeinternational.com/homes/contact These and three others are registered under same IP address, have identical contact information and formatting. Other books located include republished articles from *FASEB Journal* and the *International Journal of Oceanography *among others. Another similar book containing republished articles on marine mammals is: Creed, Roger, editor. 2015. *Advanced Study of Marine Mammals. *Callisto Reference. ISBN: 9781632390295 *Description:* An advanced study of marine mammals has been provided in this profound book. The specialized features of marine mammals in comparison with their terrestrial counterparts, the environment in which they live, and the effect of humans on them throughout history and in the present day scenario have all given a distinctive dimension to research on these creatures. Therefore, several researchers have undertaken unique approaches for their study. The aim of this book is to provide an overview on the diversity of approaches and viewpoints along with providing useful information on marine mammalogy. Given the growing concerns about issues of anthropogenic factors affecting these animals, it is apparent that a major part of this book deals with this issue. On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Phillip Clapham - NOAA Federal < phillip.clapham@noaa.gov> wrote:
A colleague alerted me to this today... a predatory publisher has taken original articles from PLoS One, stripped the citations, and packaged them in a book entitled "An Integrated Study Of Marine Mammals". Consequently, it looks like the citation for these papers is this fraudulent book. The authors (at least the ones I know) were not contacted nor did they give permission. The book is for sale at $107 a copy on Amazon (who I've contacted to make them aware of the issue); the publisher itself is charging $150 a copy. Here's the publisher link... as you can see, they do this a lot:
https://www.syrawoodpublishinghouse.com/homes/books_ description?book_id=2128
The "editor" of this volume appears to be completely fictitious.
Below is a listing of first authors and subjects from the 20 chapters of this book... if you've published in PLoS One lately, and you recognize the first authorship, there's a good chance you're in here.
Benoit-Bird: pelagic ecosystems Meager: marine mammal mortality Christensen: Recovery trends Sterling: fur seal migration Gowan: right whales Baker: Predator-prey interactions Braulik: Indus dolphin Carroll: right whales and whaling Double: Pygmy blue whales Matthews: right whale monitoring Apprill: humpback whale bacteria Amaral: Clymene dolphin McMahon: elephant seals Schorr: Ziphius diving Wilson: harbor seal foraging Silva: Bayesian state-space models Deng: sonar systems and marine mammals Aguilar: Nitrogen stable isotopes Peterson: PCB concentrations Maniscalco: Steller sea lion natality
On a related and more humorous note, my dog recently succeeded in publishing a paper in a predatory journal, co-authored with another dog and a chicken:
A. Wünderlandt, O. Doll and G. Usalida. 2018. Solicitation of patient consent for bilateral orchiectomy in male canids: Time to rethink the obligatory paradigm. *Examines in Marine Biology and Oceanography* 2(1): 1-2, doi:10.31031/EIMBO.2018.02.000528.
Reprint available on request...!
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