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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 15/08/2026

In which thesaurus Kyrgyzstan is a synonym of Gibbs?! Fortunately AI will help us solve this mystery 🤣 Ahaha ‘The Science of The Total Environment’ by @elsevierconnect.bsky.social is retracting dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p... and expressing concerns dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p... quite rightfully...

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 14/08/2026

If you send me the list of 1 million DOIs of CSDL, I can filter the PPS results for you. (I didn't find how to download the CSDL metadata)

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 14/08/2026

Here is the associated PubPeer comment: pubpeer.com/publications...

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 14/08/2026

Right. Edit: “check them against the CSDL search engine" like this: www.computer.org/csdl/search/...

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 14/08/2026

Quite surprising: Some IEEE ‘tortured’ conferences organised several editions, with ‘tortured’ articles accepted each year. See “How a Tortured Conference Becomes a Series: An Analysis of Conference Manipulations” published in ACM/IEEEE JCDL'25 ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-05497913...

Top 30 IEEE tortured conferences series, as of 19 Feb 2025. Only proceedings with 5 or more tortured articles are presented here. A same acronym
can match several conferences in our dataset, in that case we added a numerical identifier, as illustrated in ‘ICICT (1).’ We encourage readers to consult the
additional data or the PPS to see the full names of the conferences.

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 30/06/2026

Use #bibCheck if you are a French academic: it's an online tool that audits bibliographies and reports retracted or inexistent references, developed in collaboration with @cnrs-inist.bsky.social (see slide 25 ut3-toulouseinp.hal.science/hal-05646645...). Otherwise check github.com/gianlucasb/h...

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 30/04/2026

Only 18 works indexed by @dimensions.ai, cited 116 times app.dimensions.ai/discover/pub...

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 19/11/2025

Je tiens les maisons d'édition pour responsables. Elles publient et parfois vendent de la pollution : des articles toxiques. LinkedIn me permet d'atteindre les décideurs de ces publishers et les représentants institutionnels. Du délire... 😵‍💫 voici quelques extraits : www.linkedin.com/in/guillaume...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/guillaumecabanac/recent-activity

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 02/10/2025

I invite @acm.org to review their articles with Tortured Phrases dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p... (not the first time I'm doing so, here and on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/guilla...)

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 09/08/2025

🤯 Tortured phrases in ‘ACM Computing Surveys’ a top journal in my field (JIF 28 and SJR Q1, FWIW). @acm.org tell us it's a bug in the editorial system. Did any of the reviewers recommended acceptance? Please make their reports public with the upcoming retraction notice. pubpeer.com/publications...

Tortured phrases in the article https://pubpeer.com/publications/1497EA7D4D157F282F3910AB471A1B

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 08/04/2025

🫥 Withdrawn on 2099-12-31: Thank you @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for warning readers ahead of time: doi.org/10.1016/j.bj... CC @retractionwatch.com

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjorl.2021.03.007

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 29/03/2025

😵‍💫 Tortured phrases by a Google employee in an @arxiv-cs-cv.bsky.social preprint, really? Or an impersonation, or a bad joke? pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/F19A87982B29CB5C819040BFD7E8EA

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 27/03/2025

Elsewhere too… www.nature.com/articles/d41...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00894-7

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 10/01/2025

😵‍💫 ‘Claim of Helsinki’ in a 2022 article of the International Journal of Clinical Practice. I reported on @pubpeer.com this tortured phrase used instead of ‘Declaration of Helsinki’ (and 4 others) in October 2022. Wiley: it's high time you reassess this I think... pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/201C326D59C098B0150C45B1C244E8

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2022/6924489

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 18/11/2024

Congratulations to PubPeer and @elisabethbik.bsky.social !!! So well deserved 🎉 HT @einsteinberlin.bsky.social for supporting research integrity. award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...

https://award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winners-finalists/recipients-2024

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 17/11/2024

Si vous pouvez voir ceci, postez une plage de votre galerie. bsky.app/profile/devi...

Pollution sur la plage :-(
Source : https://www.20minutes.fr/monde/2643491-20191104-maree-noire-bresil-pire-venir-avertit-president-jair-bolsonaro

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 16/11/2024

🤯🤬 Outrageous! Untorturing an article with a Correction: A masterclass in Heliyon, an Elsevier journal. Tortured phrases are signs of plagiarism: unethical behaviour. Fixing a few paragraphs without full article reassessment is no solution. x.com/gcabanac/sta...

https://x.com/gcabanac/status/1699763378414063699

https://pubpeer.com/publications/DE64A894E0C68E4D2B7248D59E1E50

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 16/11/2024

🧑‍🏫 [Problematic Paper Screener] I'll host a ‘Ask me Anything’ session online on November 29 at 10.00 Paris time. Drop me a mail if you'd like to join. www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.C.... See some PPS reports pubpeer.com/search?q=%22... and some context hal.science/hal-04225515

https://www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.Cabanac/problematic-paper-screener

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 16/03/2024

📉 Not passing the vertical line test... in a peer-reviewed article published in a Wiley journal with impact factor 😲 pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/2E82A2D583559EDE9C035765C4715A

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 06/02/2024

😵 ‘Optical and Quantum Electronics’: 48+ unreliable articles riddled with #TorturedPhrases, mostly published in 2023. I suspect papermill submissions + compromised peer review. Hereby notifying @SpringerNature and Editors: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 🇬🇧 & IL_PIB 🇵🇱. pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/2F80E74D4042BDCD3537D12BDD421E#1

https://pubpeer.com/publications/1807EE9165429DF9869C788E28D414

https://pubpeer.com/publications/FEA6697352ABDAB6C7DDDAE4B5BAA4

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 15/01/2024

📰 Le Point m'a interviewé au sujet de la traque aux articles scientifiques problématiques. Article complet à votre disposition (envoyez-moi un mail). journal.lepoint.fr/guillaume-ca...

https://journal.lepoint.fr/guillaume-cabanac-il-traque-les-fake-news-dans-la-litterature-scientifique-2549238

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 14/01/2024

😵 #TorturedPhrases in Information Processing & Management, an Elsevier journal. 😟 I'm so disappointed: I've been reading IP&M since my MSc years. I reported 5 papers to the EiC, including this: pubpeer.com/publications.... Also declined the review invitation I had received.

https://pubpeer.com/publications/2D38CD6B26E7FB2A01C2CBCD18242F

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 01/01/2024

🎉Happy New #Olympics2024 Year! 😵‍💫 “Quicker, higher and more grounded”: The Olympics motto being tortured in a Springer peer-reviewed (?!) article. I wrote a post-publication report almost 2 years ago pubpeer.com/publications... No reaction. Error is spreading. Garbage-in for Readers and AIs... 😡

https://pubpeer.com/publications/87061064505F62E256F1A1ADDBB185

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 24/12/2023

#Dec25 Who's gonna submit tomorrow? “Come all ye scientists, busy and exhausted. O come ye, O come ye, out of the lab” in Nature (Ladle et al., 2007) #acwri doi.org/10.1038/4501...

Proportion of published papers submitted on 25 December relative to mean number submitted on the 25th of the month (excluding weekends) for all other months in that calendar year. R2 = 0.69.

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 30/11/2023

😕Author's reply: “the paraphrasing parts neither of them chaning (sic) the meaning of the context. Though it has been paraphrased and used the same meaning words, it still means the same.” I disagree: errors will spread. But let's the community judge... pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/62ECB88ED43442CB2011C13E16B981#2

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 23/11/2023

🇫🇷 « Signalement d'articles scientifiques non fiables par traque de marqueurs de Fake Science », exposé invité à la Journée science ouverte : logiciels libres et fouille de textes, organisée hier par la DDOR à la délégation @cnrs.bsky.social Paris Michel-Ange hal.science/hal-04301588

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 15/11/2023

🏆 #HiCi Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers list of 2023 is out today clarivate.com/highly-cited... . They used ‘tortured phrases’ as a bad signal when evaluating the nominees, as shown in box 3 clarivate.com/blog/highly-... 😵‍💫 Crazy indeed: www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.C... + www.irit.fr/~Guillaume.C...

https://clarivate.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Slide5-e1699954241916.jpg

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 13/11/2023

🔎 MDPI publishes special issues where Guest Editors place more articles than the 25% allowed (😲) according to their “Guest Editor Responsibilities and Ethics” (www.mdpi.com/special_issu...). Reports available on PubPeer pubpeer.com/search?q=%22...

https://pubpeer.com/search?q=%22Why+did+MDPI+fail+to+implement+its+own+policy%3F%22

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 11/11/2023

🪰 Bad smells in ‘scientific’ articles: prologue/caveat generated by #ChatGPT 🤖 and left intact by ‘authors’ ... that survived proofreading. See also reports on PubPeer pubpeer.com/search?q=Cha... piling up. Other concerns for this document here: twitter.com/avin102/stat...

https://ijprajournal.com/issue_dcp/Covid%2019%20New%20Age%20of%20War%20%20A%20Review.pdf

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 08/11/2023

😵 Published in October 2023 with **29 retracted references** in its biography: a Frontiers in Oncology review on MicroRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, and circular RNAs & gynecological cancers. How reliable is the knowledge presented in this article? #FeetOfClay #DominoEffect pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/8033BE0DEBC4DDCEF56B140A91F426

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 05/11/2023

Authors put #ChatGPT's “Regenerate Response” in an Elsevier article of the Natural Language Processing Journal. I reported the issue in July (pubpeer.com/publications...). Elsevier operated a *stealth revision* in September. Who cares about a proper corrigendum? #VersionOfRecord #Trust #OrNot

https://pubpeer.com/publications/82AE520EA54FC025369F9CD6E17C68

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 03/11/2023

🧑‍⚖️ Retracted at last! I reported this #SCIgen nonsense in July 2022, Springer-Nature retracts in September 2023. Were the 14 months of publisher investigation even required? I let you make your own mind… HT @smutclyde.bsky.social for letting me know; no news from the SN pubpeer.com/publications...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/DFE00F4FEAE7D40A623969827D03E3

https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02450-4

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 03/11/2023

🧑‍⚕️🏥 Now physicians learn about your i̶m̶m̶u̶n̶e̶ ̶s̶y̶s̶t̶e̶m̶ ‘invaluable framework’ in #tortured papers published in elite journals proud of their high impact factors. See @elisabethbik.bsky.social's latest PubPeer posts pubpeer.com/search?q=%22... and 81 tortured papers here > dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/F7E67AD143461C13C72BD929D37752

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 24/10/2023

Je crois que ça concerne d'autres collègues aussi.

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 24/10/2023

🧲 Ever considered renaming to ‘Attractive Reverberation’? See pubpeer.com/publications... and this ‘tortured phrase’ in 135+ articles pubpeer.com/search?q=%22... 🤦

https://pubpeer.com/publications/6D17157F91E3CD332829E68BEFECB1

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 20/10/2023

Many colleagues around me don't have ORCIDs. That's what we studied in “ORCID growth and field-wise dynamics of adoption: A case study of the Toulouse scientific area” (Learned Publishing, 2022) doi.org/10.1002/leap... See other studies here dblp.org/search?q=ORCID

Abstract of https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1451

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Guillaume Cabanac @gcabanac.cpesr.fr · 19/10/2023

🤖 #ChatGPT kindly offered to “Regenerate Response” pubpeer.com/publications.... One more problematic article in _Multimedia Tools and Applications_ published by @SpringerNature on top of 56+ concerns posted in May 2023 x.com/gcabanac/sta.... More like this: pubpeer.com/search?q=%22...

https://pubpeer.com/publications/499F4F4E1299D881A10F3C6C909526

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