Open Research

Three means to register your research plan PRIOR to conducting the research:

1. Preregister a study

• Articulates your study goals PRIOR to the research being conducted
• ClinicalTrials.gov (clinical studies)
• OSF
• PROSPERO (systematic reviews) 

2. Registered reports

• Similar to preregistering a study, except your report is a peer-reviewed article which outlines a study's:
  • design
  • method
  • analysis plan
  • Once the registered report is accepted, the journal will accept the final paper regardless of its findings. 
• See journals which accept registered reports
• How to do a registered report (workshop slides by Dr. Jessica Flake)

Study registration forms and templates:

• OSF Registration forms and templates
• AsPredicted.org

See also: Uri, Joe Leif. (Nov., 6, 2017). How to properly preregister a study

3. Protocols

Open protocols provide detailed methodological steps in granularity not found in peer-reviewed articles. 

Baker, M. (2021). Five keys to writing a reproducible lab protocol. Nature, 597(7875), 293-294.

Protocol sharing platforms:

• protocolexchange
• protocols.io
• bio-protocol

See also Systematic Review for Health: Registering a protocol (University of Tasmania guide)

Center for Open Science. Registered Reports: Peer review before results are known to align scientific values and practices. 

Chiarelli, Andrea, Loffreda, Lucia, & Johnson, Rob. (2021). The Art of Publishing Reproducible Research Outputs: Supporting emerging practices through cultural and technological innovation. Zenodo.

Gernsbacher, M. A. (2018). Writing empirical articles: Transparency, reproducibility, clarity, and memorability. Advances in methods and practices in psychological science, 1(3), 403-414.

Kiyonaga, A., & Scimeca, J. M. (2019). Practical considerations for navigating registered reports. Trends in neurosciences, 42(9), 568-572.

Nosek, B. A., Beck, E. D., Campbell, L., Flake, J. K., Hardwicke, T. E., Mellor, D. T., … Vazire, S. (2019, August 14). Preregistration Is Hard, And Worthwhile. 

Nosek, B. A., Ebersole, C. R., DeHaven, A. C., & Mellor, D. T. (2018). The preregistration revolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(11), 2600-2606.

University Health Network. (2022). Writing Protocols.