The article, "Hybrid CNN-LSTM model with efficient hyperparameter tuning for prediction of Parkinson’s disease," appeared in September 2023 in the Scientific Reports, a Springer Nature title. In December 2023, a PubPeer user commented on 13 tortured phrases the Problematic Paper Screener had flagged in the article, such as the use of "Parkinson’s illness," "Parkinson’s infection," and "Parkinson’s sickness" rather than Parkinson’s disease.
"These typically result from an attempt to avoid plagiarism detection using a paraphrasing software," the commenter wrote about the phases. "How come these incorrect wordings survived proofreading by the coauthors, editors, referees, copy editors, and typesetters?"
An "author correction" to the article appeared the following April, stating "several non-standard terms" had been "replaced with established scientific terminology". On November 7, 2024 the editors retracted the offending article "due to concerns regarding the validity and veracity of the work presented," with a list of six issues sleuths had posted on PubPeer.
