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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:

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⏰ Last Update: 2026-09-21 at 21:41

⚠️ 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 rate per publisher

  • 1 - 50 of 68
PublisherRetracted Tortured ArticlesTortured ArticlesRetraction RateDescending
Public Library of Science (PLoS)8998
91%
Hindawi759857
89%
SAGE Publications315399
79%
IOP Publishing335438
76%
Emerald75111
68%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)1624
67%
Spandidos Publications1015
67%
Frontiers72133
54%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)4,0508,815
46%
American Chemical Society (ACS)920
45%
Elsevier1,3152,965
44%
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics1537
41%
Wiley5111,269
40%
Oxford University Press (OUP)820
40%
Wolters Kluwer615
40%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1539
38%
Scientific Research Publishing1032
31%
Scientific Scholar414
29%
EDP Sciences62236
26%
Springer Nature1,4045,515
25%
Trans Tech Publications211
18%
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)317
18%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)25158
16%
Research Square Platform30196
15%
MDPI53356
15%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory214
14%
Taylor & Francis1091,450
8%
De Gruyter4123
3%
Bentham Science Publishers158
2%
Atlantis Press160
2%
Inderscience Publishers3192
2%
Sciencedomain International168
1%
AIP Publishing12980
1%
American Scientific Publishers1144
1%
Science Publishing0263
0%
Egyptian Knowledge Bank0198
0%
Auricle Technologies0150
0%
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science0143
0%
Indian Society for Education and Environment0124
0%
World Scientific Publishing098
0%
Ninety Nine Publication091
0%
Green Publication059
0%
Tech Science Press057
0%
IGI Global051
0%
OMICS International042
0%
GSC Online Press041
0%
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP039
0%
Innovare Academic Sciences038
0%
International Organization of Scientific Research037
0%
AI Publications036
0%
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📚 Retraction rate per venue

  • 1 - 50 of 5,734
PublisherDoctypeVenueRetracted Tortured ArticlesTortured ArticlesDescendingRetraction Rate
AIP PublishingproceedingAIP Conference Proceedings8971
1%
Springer NaturechapterLecture Notes in Networks and Systems8724
1%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2024 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)583657
89%
ElsevierarticleMaterials Today Proceedings349643
54%
Springer NaturechapterLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering4489
1%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2024 International Conference on Optimization Computing and Wireless Communication (ICOCWC)418418
100%
ElsevierarticleMicroprocessors and Microsystems388409
95%
Springer NaturechapterAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing15357
4%
SAGE PublicationsarticleJournal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems Applications in Engineering and Technology228262
87%
Science PublishingarticleInternational Journal of Engineering & Technology0260
0%
IOP PublishingarticleJournal of Physics Conference Series184221
83%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2023 3rd International Conference on Smart Generation Computing, Communication and Networking (SMART GENCON)205217
94%
Springer NaturechapterLecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies30210
14%
Springer NaturearticleMultimedia Tools and Applications194206
94%
Research Square PlatformpreprintResearch Square30196
15%
Springer NaturechapterCommunications in Computer and Information Science1191
1%
IOP PublishingarticleIOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering118166
71%
Springer NaturearticleEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research129158
82%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2020 6th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication Systems (ICACCS)154157
98%
Springer NaturechapterSmart Innovation, Systems and Technologies2157
1%
ElsevierarticleHeliyon138154
90%
Springer NaturearticleWireless Personal Communications119143
83%
Springer NaturechapterAlgorithms for Intelligent Systems9143
6%
HindawiarticleComputational Intelligence and Neuroscience134142
94%
Egyptian Knowledge BankarticleBenha Journal of Applied Sciences0142
0%
HindawiarticleSecurity and Communication Networks131140
94%
WileyarticleWireless Communications and Mobile Computing124138
90%
Springer NaturearticleSoft Computing128136
94%
EDP SciencesarticleE3S Web of Conferences39130
30%
Springer NaturearticleJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing117129
91%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)articleIEEE Access14128
11%
Indian Society for Education and EnvironmentarticleIndian Journal of Science and Technology0124
0%
ElsevierpreprintSSRN Electronic Journal1120
1%
Springer NaturechapterEAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing0111
0%
Springer NaturearticleOptical and Quantum Electronics102106
96%
American Scientific PublishersarticleJournal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience0100
0%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)articlePLOS ONE8695
91%
Ninety Nine PublicationarticleTurkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT)086
0%
Springer NaturechapterStudies in Computational Intelligence080
0%
WileyarticleJournal of Environmental and Public Health7879
99%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2022 Fourth International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology (ICERECT)7073
96%
Auricle TechnologiesarticleInternational Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication073
0%
Springer NaturearticleScientific Reports5771
80%
Springer NaturearticleCluster Computing4371
61%
HindawiarticleJournal of Healthcare Engineering6367
94%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2023 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I)6465
98%
HindawiarticleMobile Information Systems5463
86%
HindawiarticleComputational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine6061
98%
HindawiarticleMathematical Problems in Engineering4861
79%
Springer NaturechapterThe Palgrave Encyclopedia of Disability061
0%
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