Registered Reports

A registered report is an article format where the study proposal is peer-reviewed before the research is undertaken.

After approved by the reviewers, the results will be published as long as the study proposal is followed and deviations are clearly indicated. This article format facilitates the publication of negative results and reduces time wasted on irrelevant study proposals.

There are 2 main options: submit to a single journal that offers Registered Reports or to the supra-journal platform Peer Community In Registered Reports (PCI RR). For the former option, refer to the current list of journals that offer Registered Reports.

• Discover Chemical Engineering

• Discover Water

• Cancers

• Frontiers in Genetics

• JMIR Biomedical Engineering

• Nature

• Nature Communications

• Nature Human Behaviour

• NeuroImage Reports

• PeerJ Materials Science

• PLOS ONE

• Open Research Europe

• Scientific Reports

Incorporating Registered Reports and/or Open Science practices into your workflow may initially take some time, but will pay off for future you.

You don’t lose time doing reproducible science, you just relocate where you spend it.

More Information

• See the Open Science Framework for more information and resources on Registered Reports.

• See the University of Surrey Open Research website for more information about preregistration and registered reports.

• Ten simple rules for writing a Registered Report

• Chris Chambers: Registered Reports and the future of open science in psychology (conference presentation, 50 min)

• Zotero group with registered reports