Ranking major and minor research misbehaviors: results from a survey among participants of four World Conferences on Research Integrity

Codes of conduct mainly focus on research misconduct that takes the form of fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism. However, at the aggregate level, lesser forms of research misbehavior may be more important due to their much higher prevalence. Little is known about what the most frequent research misbehaviors are and what their impact is if they occur.A survey was conducted among 1353 attendees of international research integrity...