Abstract:ObjectiveTo understand the academic misconducts detected in manuscripts contributed to Chinese Journal of OtorhinolaryngologySkull Base Surgery by online misconduct detection system of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), and to put forward countermeasures to these problems according to the rules of the journal.Methods454 manuscripts submitted were detected by abovementioned system from Sept 2011 to Jan 2013. And all of them were free contributions, which were screened by the responsible editor in keeping with the magazine’s form in Chinese.ResultsOf all 454 manuscripts detected, the replication rate was found to be greater than 30% in 99 (21.8%), among them the replication rate of 30%~40%, 40%~50%, and higher than 50% were 9.3% in 42, 4.2% in 19 and 8.37% in 38 respectively. The highest plagiarism rate was 89.8%. Number of The papers withno detectable replication was 81 (17.8%). The other main misconducts included falsified data, patchwork of articles, papers with low level repetition and disloyal citation of references. The manuscripts with replication rate higher than 35% were all rejected.ConclusionsAny academic misconduct should be exposed . The journals should full utilize the misconduct literature retrieval system. Editors should enhance their comprehensive quality to guarantee articles with high academic level, and should communicate with the related periodicals more closely in order to increase the penalties for acaclemic disconducts and to improve the academic consciousness of authers.