PPS – FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How can I contribute newly-found tortured phrases?
A: Report them using the Feedback feature, see top-right menu. The administrators will review them and add the most promising ones (with low false positive rate). We also read every PubPeer post and collect new suggestions from there. More information on this PubPeer comment.
Q: How do I show the DOI of each paper?
A: On a report, go to the ‘Actions’ menu, pick Columns, and select the columns you'd like to show.
Q: How do I link to the result of a filtered report?
A: Build a URL such as...
- For publishers: ACM, Elsevier, Frontiers, IEEE, MDPI...
- For venues:
  - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health
  - Arabian Journal of Geosciences
  - Cogent Engineering
  - Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  - Microprocessors and Microsystems
  - Optical and Quantum Electronics
  - The Springer-Nature SN Whatever series
- For sleuths:
- For topics:
  - Autism
  - Alzheimer
  - Cancer
  - Parkinson
  - ...
- For tortured terms:
  - acid
  - cancer
  - immune system
  - pain
  - ...
- For Feet of Clay articles:
  - that are citing the retracted Nature paper ‘Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach’ cited 750+ times
  - (Now) retracted articles citing retracted reference(s)
Q: How much work is it to assess the candidate papers the PPS daily flags? (i.e., deciding between Problematic vs. Genuine)
A: Here is the timeline of our group's efforts (see the details in the Assessor column of the various detectors):

Q: How can I find overlapping text between two documents?
A: Try SimTexter (see the examples) and Text Compare (see the examples).

SimTexter

Text Compare

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