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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: 2026-05-09 at 12:32

⚠️ 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
Hindawi782876
89%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)7687
87%
SAGE Publications409492
83%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)1826
69%
Spandidos Publications1116
69%
Emerald6498
65%
IOP Publishing233421
55%
American Chemical Society (ACS)1324
54%
Frontiers58113
51%
Wolters Kluwer714
50%
Wiley5151,227
42%
Elsevier1,2253,007
41%
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics1436
39%
Oxford University Press (OUP)718
39%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)3,2568,375
39%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1235
34%
Scientific Scholar413
31%
Trans Tech Publications310
30%
Scientific Research Publishing829
28%
EDP Sciences60236
25%
Springer Nature1,2375,214
24%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)29160
18%
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)317
18%
Research Square Platform30190
16%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory213
15%
MDPI38333
11%
Taylor & Francis1011,364
7%
De Gruyter4121
3%
Bentham Science Publishers155
2%
Atlantis Press157
2%
Sciencedomain International168
1%
AIP Publishing13929
1%
Egyptian Knowledge Bank0200
0%
Science Publishing0179
0%
Inderscience Publishers0173
0%
Auricle Technologies0142
0%
American Scientific Publishers0138
0%
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science0134
0%
Indian Society for Education and Environment0122
0%
World Scientific Publishing098
0%
Ninety Nine Publication090
0%
Green Publication060
0%
Tech Science Press054
0%
IGI Global051
0%
GSC Online Press041
0%
OMICS International040
0%
Innovare Academic Sciences039
0%
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP036
0%
International Organization of Scientific Research036
0%
AI Publications033
0%
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