Imagine your research paper has just been accepted for publication in a journal and the journal has already gone to press. You have received a lot of congratulations from your peers for your findings and your publication. As you are proudly looking over the article, you discover that you made a mathematical error. Your results are still statistically significant, but not nearly as impressive as you reported. You decide to ignore your discovery because it is to late to fix the paper because it has gone to press, because it is still statistically significant, and because no one will realize there is an error anyway because you have all the data. Furthermore, you figure it could harm you professionally to have published an article with such an error.
Investigate what the United States considers as "research misconduct" and report your findings and determine whether or not your ignoring this discovery constitutes research misconduct. Also, reflect on whether or not what you are doing is ethical. Are there any other courses of action you can take?
please give an advise......
You can ask the journal concerned to give a corrigendum related to your paper in one of the subsequent issues of the journal notifying all concerned that your paper should be read subject to the correction you have now pointed out. If the error is such that it renders the paper containing some ridiculous contents, which was not noticed by the referees as well, then you may request the journal concerned to treat your paper as withdrawn. Again, a corrigendum to that effect would be needed to be published in one of the subsequent issues of the journal.
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