Tortured phrases
A few months ago I learned about a new twist in the ever-exciting world of plagiarism, nicely described by Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé and Alexander Magazinov in their arXiv preprint "Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science", which was subsequently covered by Nature . Since plagiarism detection tools have gotten quite good at spotting verbatim cut-and-paste plagiarism, shady actors have taken to running the source material to some form of transmogrifier (e.g. machine translation -- English to French and back to English) that will change the prose while retaining the meaning. Imagine my surprise when I came across " Efficient Range Queries over Cloud Data Perturbation ", published in a 2015 issue of the International Journal of Advanced Technology and Innovative Research . This paper appears to be a tortured-phrase-based mash-up of " RASP: Efficient Multidimensional Range Query on Attack-Resilient Encrypted Databases " (publish