Abstract: Objective: To investigate graduate nursing students' attitude towards research integrity and research misconduct. Methods: Totally 220 graduate nursing students were recruited conveniently and surveyed with a self-designed questionnaire. Results: Most of the graduate students (91.8%) thought research integrity were important or very important.The total score of attention level on research integrity was (13.30±3.61). The attention levels of the first year graduate students and the students who had never published papers in key journals or never received research integrity training were low (P<0.05). The graduate students thought that research misconduct mainly affected the prestige of the researcher's academic field (4.45±0.79), public's faith on researchers (4.45±0.78) and the researcher's academic reputation (4.44±0.74).They considered the lack of the academic supervision (77.7%), influence of social environment (77.3%), insufficient research ability (74.1%), defect of academic morality (62.3%) and the quantitative evaluation of research (61.4%) as the main causes of research misconduct. Conclusion: Graduate nursing students have realized the importance of research integrity.However, further education is needed to improve graduate students' attention level on research integrity and recognition of research misconduct. Creating research integrity atmosphere, improving academic supervision and evaluation mechanism,and strengthening comprehensive quality of graduate students are necessary for improving the research integrity of graduate students.