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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: 2026-06-15 at 13:09

⚠️ 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
Hindawi777874
89%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)7686
88%
SAGE Publications407494
82%
Spandidos Publications1015
67%
Emerald58100
58%
IOP Publishing233424
55%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)1324
54%
Frontiers59115
51%
Wolters Kluwer613
46%
Wiley5021,237
41%
Elsevier1,2233,026
40%
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics1436
39%
American Chemical Society (ACS)718
39%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)3,2638,468
39%
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)1235
34%
Oxford University Press (OUP)619
32%
Scientific Research Publishing1032
31%
Scientific Scholar413
31%
Trans Tech Publications310
30%
EDP Sciences58234
25%
Springer Nature1,2915,276
24%
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)317
18%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)26159
16%
Research Square Platform30192
16%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory213
15%
MDPI41342
12%
Taylor & Francis1051,393
8%
Atlantis Press259
3%
De Gruyter4121
3%
Bentham Science Publishers155
2%
Sciencedomain International168
1%
AIP Publishing13946
1%
Science Publishing1263
0%
Egyptian Knowledge Bank0198
0%
Inderscience Publishers0179
0%
Auricle Technologies0147
0%
American Scientific Publishers0138
0%
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science0135
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%
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2026.06.03