{"id":14006,"date":"2012-01-13T12:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=14006"},"modified":"2012-01-13T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:54:24","slug":"bmj-survey-on-research-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2012\/01\/13\/bmj-survey-on-research-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"BMJ survey on research misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We conducted an electronic survey of our UK-based submitting authors and reviewers about research misconduct in the UK.\u00a0 We invited 9,036 to take part and 2,782 responded (31%) within a week. 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