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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: 2026-08-13 at 19:27

⚠️ 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 67
PublisherRetracted Tortured ArticlesTortured ArticlesRetraction RateDescending
Public Library of Science (PLoS)8695
91%
Hindawi776870
89%
SAGE Publications416499
83%
Emerald76109
70%
Spandidos Publications1116
69%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)1624
67%
IOP Publishing237424
56%
Frontiers61117
52%
Wolters Kluwer613
46%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)3,9668,626
46%
Wiley5171,256
41%
Elsevier1,2653,075
41%
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics1436
39%
American Chemical Society (ACS)718
39%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1336
36%
Oxford University Press (OUP)618
33%
Scientific Research Publishing1032
31%
Scientific Scholar413
31%
Springer Nature1,3465,369
25%
EDP Sciences58234
25%
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)317
18%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)26159
16%
Research Square Platform30192
16%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory213
15%
MDPI51353
14%
Taylor & Francis1081,417
8%
Atlantis Press260
3%
De Gruyter4121
3%
Bentham Science Publishers155
2%
Inderscience Publishers3185
2%
Sciencedomain International168
1%
AIP Publishing13965
1%
Science Publishing1263
0%
Egyptian Knowledge Bank0198
0%
Auricle Technologies0147
0%
American Scientific Publishers0138
0%
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science0136
0%
Indian Society for Education and Environment0122
0%
World Scientific Publishing098
0%
Ninety Nine Publication091
0%
Green Publication061
0%
Tech Science Press055
0%
IGI Global051
0%
OMICS International042
0%
GSC Online Press041
0%
Innovare Academic Sciences038
0%
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Engineering and Sciences Publication - BEIESP037
0%
International Organization of Scientific Research036
0%
AI Publications034
0%
AkiNik Publications031
0%
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📚 Retraction rate per venue

  • 1 - 50 of 5,632
PublisherDoctypeVenueRetracted Tortured ArticlesTortured ArticlesDescendingRetraction Rate
AIP PublishingproceedingAIP Conference Proceedings8955
1%
Springer NaturechapterLecture Notes in Networks and Systems5697
1%
ElsevierarticleMaterials Today Proceedings346635
54%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceedingProceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026598598
100%
Springer NaturechapterLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering4482
1%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2024 International Conference on Optimization Computing and Wireless Communication (ICOCWC)417417
100%
ElsevierarticleMicroprocessors and Microsystems388409
95%
Springer NaturechapterAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing15354
4%
ElsevierpreprintSSRN Electronic Journal1305
0%
SAGE PublicationsarticleJournal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems Applications in Engineering and Technology228262
87%
Science PublishingarticleInternational Journal of Engineering & Technology1260
0%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2023 3rd International Conference on Smart Generation Computing, Communication and Networking (SMART GENCON)205217
94%
IOP PublishingarticleJournal of Physics Conference Series143213
67%
Springer NaturearticleMultimedia Tools and Applications194206
94%
Springer NaturechapterLecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies30206
15%
Research Square PlatformpreprintResearch Square30192
16%
Springer NaturechapterCommunications in Computer and Information Science2190
1%
IOP PublishingarticleIOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering74162
46%
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 Technologies2155
1%
ElsevierarticleHeliyon131147
89%
Springer NaturearticleWireless Personal Communications118144
82%
HindawiarticleSecurity and Communication Networks133142
94%
WileyarticleWireless Communications and Mobile Computing128142
90%
Egyptian Knowledge BankarticleBenha Journal of Applied Sciences0142
0%
HindawiarticleComputational Intelligence and Neuroscience131139
94%
SAGE PublicationsarticleInternational Journal of Electrical Engineering Education133134
99%
Springer NaturearticleSoft Computing123131
94%
Springer NaturechapterAlgorithms for Intelligent Systems0131
0%
EDP SciencesarticleE3S Web of Conferences37130
28%
Springer NaturearticleJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing117129
91%
Springer NaturearticleEnvironmental Science and Pollution Research105129
81%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)articleIEEE Access13125
10%
Indian Society for Education and EnvironmentarticleIndian Journal of Science and Technology0122
0%
Springer NaturechapterEAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing0110
0%
Springer NaturearticleOptical and Quantum Electronics101105
96%
American Scientific PublishersarticleJournal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience096
0%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)articlePLOS ONE8392
90%
Ninety Nine PublicationarticleTurkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT)086
0%
Springer NaturechapterStudies in Computational Intelligence079
0%
WileyarticleJournal of Environmental and Public Health7778
99%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2024 15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)073
0%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2022 Fourth International Conference on Emerging Research in Electronics, Computer Science and Technology (ICERECT)7072
97%
Springer NaturearticleScientific Reports5770
81%
Auricle TechnologiesarticleInternational Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication070
0%
HindawiarticleJournal of Healthcare Engineering6569
94%
Springer NaturearticleCluster Computing4369
62%
HindawiarticleComputational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine6768
99%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)proceeding2023 6th International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatics (IC3I)6465
98%
HindawiarticleMobile Information Systems5765
88%
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