PPS – Tortured Phrases Detector

Tortured Phrases Detector

Papers matching 5+ tortured phrases or 1+ obvious tortured phrases (e.g., sign to clamor).

📄 Cabanac, G., Labbé, C., & Magazinov, A. (2022). “Bosom peril” is not “breast cancer”: How weird computer-generated phrases help researchers find scientific publishing fraud.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Online

📄 Cabanac, G., Labbé, C., & Magazinov, A. (2021). Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence of critical issues affecting established journals.
arXiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.06751 (supplementary materials)
▷ Featured in Nature (Else, 2021)

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Publisher	Number of papersDescending	Share of total count (%)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)	5,036	28.43
Springer Nature	3,832	21.63
Elsevier	2,208	12.46
Taylor & Francis	903	5.10
Hindawi	843	4.76
Wiley	725	4.09
AIP Publishing	627	3.54
IOP Publishing	385	2.17
MDPI	254	1.43
Egyptian Knowledge Bank	169	0.95
Research Square Platform	152	0.86
–	136	0.00
Inderscience Publishers	131	0.74
Auricle Technologies	127	0.72
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science	121	0.68
American Scientific Publishers	120	0.68
Science Publishing	119	0.67
De Gruyter	91	0.51
Indian Society for Education and Environment	90	0.51
EDP Sciences	86	0.49

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