Registar [2025]

Prevents questionable practices like (manipulating data to find significant patterns) and HARKing (Hypothesizing After the Results are Known).

: Detailed author guidelines can be found at Nature and Cambridge University Press . How to write & review Registered Reports Registar

: Before data collection, authors submit their research question, hypotheses, and detailed methodology for peer review. Reduces (the tendency to only publish positive results)

Reduces (the tendency to only publish positive results). Process : It follows a two-stage submission process:

Allows researchers to receive expert feedback before conducting the actual work.

A is a publishing format designed to improve the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research by moving peer review to the beginning of the study. Process : It follows a two-stage submission process:

: If the protocol is sound, the journal grants In-Principle Acceptance (IPA) , promising to publish the findings regardless of whether the results are positive, negative, or "null". Key Benefits :