Is "raises question marks over" a correct and common phrase?

Question

Is a sentence like

Dynamic method invocation raises question marks over the way
  existing instances should be handled.

correct in a technical paper (computer science)? (I think it is in the Economist data base, so it should be correct.)

I guess raises questions over the way is just a lot more common.

If it is correct, is this only common in British English or is it also common in American English? (By the way, I am not a native speaker.)

Hugo · Accepted Answer

I agree, "raise questions over" sounds better than "raise question marks over" to my British ears.

We can search Google Scholar "to broadly search for scholarly literature" with each phrase.

"raises questions over" has about 1,940 results.
"raises question marks over" has about 61 results.

Arun · Answer

"A Question mark over" seems to be veritable idiom according to this source:
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/a+question+mark+over

It can be used in many ways as in

"A question mark hangs over something" or
"This leaves or puts a question mark over something"

It seems to sound off better than "leave question marks over something" , at least to me.

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