What if some of my analyses in a registered report depend on the preliminary results?
September 14, 2021
You may register contingencies in your pre-analysis plan (e.g., if A result is obtained, B method will be used).
You may register contingencies in your pre-analysis plan (e.g., if A result is obtained, B method will be used).
Any divergences from the proposed pre-analysis plans that weaken the research design (e.g., reduce its power, vitiate the causal identification strategy, or alters the estimand) will likely lead to a negative outcome.
In Stage 1, reviewers evaluate the importance of the research question and quality of the proposed design. At the conclusion of this stage, the editor may reject the submission, request revisions that may be sent back to reviewers, or accept the submission “in principle.” If a paper is accepted in
The Open Science Framework offers a number of resources, including checklists, for registered reports: https://cos.io/prereg/ Nosek, et al. (https://www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2600) offer helpful reflections on challenges to registered work in practice. Declare Design help researchers formalize their research design and simulate data (https://declaredesign.org/).
Stage 1 In Stage 1, reviewers are asked to review the registered report along five dimensions: Importance of the research question Soundness of proposed hypothesis Soundness and feasibility of proposed design (including statistical power) Whether proposed experiment offers an adequate and appropriate test of hypothesis Whether proposed methods are appropriate
A registered report only differs from a traditional research paper in that the proposed experiment has not yet been conducted. Otherwise, a registered report should look very much like a traditional research paper.
The suggested maximum page limit for registered reports is 40 manuscript pages. Authors are encouraged to use an online appendix as a way to provide details that reviewers need to evaluate proposed experimental designs and supplemental materials for , as applicable.
No. The proposed experiment(s) can only be conducted after the Stage 1 review process is complete and the proposed design reflects the reviewers’ comments.
Yes. Previous research (registered or not) can be incorporated in a registered report in the same way it would be in a traditional paper — as a preliminary study in the main text or pilot study in the appendix. It is important that authors make clear in the text which
Yes, but this should be made clear in the main text and an anonymized version of registered pre-analysis plan for the larger project should be provided in the online appendix, so that reviewers can consider the hypotheses to be tested in the registered report in the broader context of other
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