Will the project undergo pre-registration, and will negative results be published, to avoid publication bias?
Preregistration promotes transparency by sharing study designs a priori and making them accessible to others. This process participates in the reduction of reporting biases (e.g. selective outcomes reporting and HARKing), prevents the involuntary duplication of animal studies, and can be used by researchers as proof of good planning and management.
Resources
- preclinicaltrials.eu: an international register of preclinical trial protocols
- Registered Reports at Nature
- Registered Reports at COS (Center for Open Science)
- Registered Reports: what are they and why are they important? (Royal Society, 2016)
- Dirnagl (2020): Preregistration of exploratory research: Learning from the golden age of discovery