Microprocessors and Microsystems: Elsevier says 400 papers compromised

Also :

"Some of the mangled phrases the authors identified include:

Profound neural organization for deep neural network

Motor vitality for kinetic energy

Motion to clamor for signal to noise

Discourse acknowledgement for voice recognition

And our favorite: Subterranean insect province (or area, state, region or settlement — your choice) for ant colony Cabanac told Retraction Watch:

We noticed a huge number of questionable papers in the volumes and queue of the journal (we first encountered a sensible number – ca. 30 – papers with “tortured phrases”, then, upon a closer look, realized that the problem is even bigger).

He says that the journal has been silent in response to the concerns:

I’m afraid we got no reply to date, not even a ‘mail received’ acknowledgement"

https://retractionwatch.com/2021/07/19/tortured-phrases-lost...

The details here are light and opaque - was this due to a technical error with their approval workflow, rogue editors, or just poor reviewers? Either way this seems like a good time to bring up a past HN discussion, “Why we shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20607259