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Jaime A Teixeira da Silva1, Marilyn H Oermann2
1Independent Researcher, Miki-cho, Japan.
Abstract:
The academic nursing community across Canada and worldwide relies on literature with technically accurate terms. Despite this, scientific literature contains 'tortured phrases' (TPs)-linguistically and scientifically inaccurate representations of established technical terms or jargon-that can arise when texts are synonymized using tools based on artificial intelligence. TPs pose a threat to the integrity of nursing literature. We exemplify these issues in this editorial with several health-related examples of TPs that authors, peer reviewers, or editors of nursing journals might encounter in scientific literature they read, cite, peer review, or edit.
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