tortured phrase

English

Noun

tortured phrase (plural tortured phrases)

Synonym of Rogetism
- 2022 October 24, Puthineath Lay, Martin Lentschat, Cyril Labbé, “Investigating the detection of Tortured Phrases in Scientific Literature”, in arXiv‎^[1], →DOI, arXiv:2210.13024:
  The present study aims at investigating how tortured phrases, that are not yet listed, can be detected automatically.
- 2023 May 4, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, ““Tortured phrases” in preprints”, in Current Medical Research and Opinion‎^[2], volume 39, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, →PMID, pages 785–787:
  This paper highlights the existence of “tortured phrases” in select Covid-19 literature, arguing that they could serve as a class of epistemic marker when evaluating the integrity of the scientific and biomedical literature.
- 2023 August 3, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, ““Tortured Phrases” in Covid-19 Literature: Can They Serve as Epistemic Markers to Assess the Integrity of Biomedical Information?”, in Philosophy of Medicine‎^[3]:
  Whereas some “tortured phrases” might represent simple mistranslations, in other cases, an abundance of such terms in a single preprint might reveal a more serious ethical issue, such as the undeclared use of a paper mill or an unprofessional editing service.
- 2024 February 2, Eléna Martel, Martin Lentschat, Cyril Labbé, “Detection of tortured phrases in scientific literature”, in arXiv‎^[4], →DOI, arXiv:2402.03370:
  These tortured phrases, e.g. flag to clamor instead of signal to noise, are the results of paraphrasing tools used to escape plagiarism detection.