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Retraction Rate of the Tortured Articles

This report shows the retraction rate of tortured articles per publisher, based on data from:

Last Update

⏰ Last Update: 2026-03-13 at 07:11

⚠️ Known issue.
Some publishers mark papers as Retracted on their websites but don't update their Crossref metadata as they should... Hence an underestimated Retraction Rate = 0% for a few publishers.

Retraction rates

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PublisherRetracted Tortured ArticlesTortured ArticlesRetraction Rate
Hindawi754848
89%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)5868
85%
SAGE Publications387469
83%
Spandidos Publications914
64%
Emerald6094
64%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)1423
61%
IOP Publishing230416
55%
Frontiers54101
53%
American Chemical Society (ACS)714
50%
Wolters Kluwer612
50%
Wiley4841,182
41%
Elsevier1,1522,901
40%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2,8157,969
35%
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics1234
35%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1133
33%
Oxford University Press (OUP)515
33%
Scientific Scholar413
31%
EDP Sciences59235
25%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory314
21%
Springer Nature1,0675,067
21%
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)316
19%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)25154
16%
Research Square Platform26184
14%
Scientific Research Publishing325
12%
MDPI31325
10%
Taylor & Francis941,333
7%
De Gruyter4118
3%
Bentham Science Publishers154
2%
Atlantis Press156
2%
Sciencedomain International170
1%
AIP Publishing12862
1%
Egyptian Knowledge Bank0191
0%
Inderscience Publishers0175
0%
Auricle Technologies0143
0%
Science Publishing0140
0%
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science0138
0%
American Scientific Publishers0136
0%
Indian Society for Education and Environment0118
0%
World Scientific Publishing098
0%
Ninety Nine Publication086
0%
Green Publication053
0%
Tech Science Press052
0%
IGI Global051
0%
GSC Online Press042
0%
Innovare Academic Sciences038
0%
OMICS International038
0%
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP037
0%
International Organization of Scientific Research035
0%
AI Publications034
0%
NADIA030
0%
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