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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: 2025-12-06 at 18:00

⚠️ 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
Hindawi748841
89%
SAGE Publications368446
83%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)5062
81%
Spandidos Publications914
64%
Emerald5791
63%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)1221
57%
IOP Publishing221411
54%
Frontiers4891
53%
American Chemical Society (ACS)714
50%
Wolters Kluwer510
50%
Wiley4731,155
41%
Elsevier1,0902,823
39%
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics1234
35%
Oxford University Press (OUP)515
33%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1032
31%
Scientific Scholar413
31%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2,2117,784
28%
Springer Nature9244,903
19%
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)316
19%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory213
15%
Research Square Platform26181
14%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)21149
14%
EDP Sciences28230
12%
Scientific Research Publishing325
12%
MDPI27317
9%
Taylor & Francis851,283
7%
De Gruyter4115
3%
Bentham Science Publishers153
2%
Atlantis Press156
2%
Sciencedomain International170
1%
AIP Publishing9842
1%
Egyptian Knowledge Bank0191
0%
Inderscience Publishers0167
0%
Auricle Technologies0143
0%
Science Publishing0139
0%
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science0137
0%
American Scientific Publishers0136
0%
Indian Society for Education and Environment0117
0%
World Scientific Publishing097
0%
Ninety Nine Publication086
0%
Green Publication053
0%
IGI Global051
0%
Tech Science Press051
0%
GSC Online Press042
0%
Innovare Academic Sciences037
0%
OMICS International037
0%
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP036
0%
AI Publications034
0%
International Organization of Scientific Research034
0%
NADIA030
0%
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