Guillaume Cabanac
@gcabanac.cpesr.fr
‘Deception Sleuth’ #Nature10 Scientist go.nature.com/3B29NgY • CS Prof. @UT3PaulSabatier @InstUnivFr • Metascience + Scientific Text Mining • bit.ly/gc-papers
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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...)
October 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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...)
🤯 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...
August 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🤯 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...
🫥 Withdrawn on 2099-12-31: Thank you @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for warning readers ahead of time: doi.org/10.1016/j.bj...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
April 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🫥 Withdrawn on 2099-12-31: Thank you @elsevierconnect.bsky.social for warning readers ahead of time: doi.org/10.1016/j.bj...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
😵💫 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...
March 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
😵💫 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...
Elsewhere too… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Elsewhere too… www.nature.com/articles/d41...
😵💫 ‘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...
January 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
😵💫 ‘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...
Congratulations to PubPeer and @elisabethbik.bsky.social !!! So well deserved 🎉 HT @einsteinberlin.bsky.social for supporting research integrity. award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
November 18, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Congratulations to PubPeer and @elisabethbik.bsky.social !!! So well deserved 🎉 HT @einsteinberlin.bsky.social for supporting research integrity. award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...
Si vous pouvez voir ceci, postez une plage de votre galerie. bsky.app/profile/devi...
November 17, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Si vous pouvez voir ceci, postez une plage de votre galerie. bsky.app/profile/devi...
🤯🤬 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...
November 16, 2024 at 8:23 PM
🤯🤬 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...
🧑🏫 [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
November 16, 2024 at 3:29 PM
🧑🏫 [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
📉 Not passing the vertical line test... in a peer-reviewed article published in a Wiley journal with impact factor 😲 pubpeer.com/publications...
March 16, 2024 at 11:37 AM
📉 Not passing the vertical line test... in a peer-reviewed article published in a Wiley journal with impact factor 😲 pubpeer.com/publications...
😵 ‘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...
February 6, 2024 at 8:39 AM
😵 ‘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...
📰 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...
January 15, 2024 at 7:51 PM
📰 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...
😵 #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.
January 14, 2024 at 8:04 PM
😵 #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.
🎉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... 😡
😵💫 “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... 😡
January 1, 2024 at 10:44 AM
🎉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... 😡
😵💫 “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... 😡
#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...
December 24, 2023 at 9:37 AM
#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...
I agree with you @ipoga.bsky.social:
November 30, 2023 at 10:06 AM
I agree with you @ipoga.bsky.social:
😕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...
November 30, 2023 at 7:40 AM
😕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...
🇫🇷 « 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
November 23, 2023 at 11:21 AM
🇫🇷 « 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
🏆 #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...
November 15, 2023 at 11:11 AM
🏆 #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...
🔎 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...
November 13, 2023 at 3:23 PM
🔎 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...
🪰 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...
November 11, 2023 at 10:30 PM
🪰 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...
😵 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...
November 8, 2023 at 1:37 PM
😵 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...
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
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
November 5, 2023 at 8:48 PM
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
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
🧑⚖️ 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...
November 3, 2023 at 8:39 PM
🧑⚖️ 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...