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...! -- Phillip J. Clapham, Ph.D. Leader, Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program Marine Mammal Laboratory Alaska Fisheries Science Center 7600 Sand Point Way NE Seattle, WA 98115, USA tel 206 526 4037 email phillip.clapham@noaa.gov