The phrase "a notorious problem in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an issue that is widely recognized and often discussed within a specific context or field.
Example: "Corruption is a notorious problem in many developing countries, affecting their governance and economic stability."
Alternatives: "a well-known issue in" or "a significant challenge in".
He marvelled at how, within a week, Beijing cleaned up its gigantic garbage dump, a notorious problem in the old capital.
However, anyone wanting to sell such tickets would have to overcome a notorious problem in transferring to another theatre or country a show led by Oscar or Emmy-friendly actors – the stars tend to be too busy on film sets.
This paper addresses a notorious problem in testing computational models for infrastructure protection and emergency response by means of simulation and animation using realistic scenarios.
Sludge flotation is a notorious problem in anaerobic wastewater treatment that can occur under various operational conditions and even cause the anaerobic process to completely fail.
Screening of ferroelectric polarization by charges and associated modulations in the polarization hysteresis curve due to the Schottky barrier formed at the metal/semiconductor (ferroelectric) junction is a notorious problem in thin-film ferroelectrics, and is one of the most actively investigated topics in thin-film ferroics [32].
False positives due to "off-target" effects of RNAi are a notorious problem in siRNA screens in human cells with current technology, and no completely satisfactory method is yet available to eliminate them.
Short ORF length represents a notorious problem to alignment algorithms resulting in low match scores, and consequently, a more frequent classification of short ORF ESTs as species-specific transcripts.
The construction of negative training sets for protein interaction prediction is a notorious problem [10], [38], because many interactions that are not reported in the databases may actually be true positives due to our incomplete knowledge.
It has been well known that the stability of 802.11 networks is a notorious problem due to their distributed, random access nature.
Customer churn is a notorious problem for most industries, as loss of a customer affects revenues and brand image and acquiring new customers is difficult.
The elucidation of phylogenetic relationships among animal serpins poses a notorious problem [ 16].
