Preregistration: Definition, Advantages, Disadvantages, and How It Can Help Against Questionable Research Practices

Krypotos, Angelos‐Miltiadis; Mertens, Gaëtan; Klugkist, Irene; Engelhard, Iris M.

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“…Preregistration is a special case of registration intended to deal with exactly this. The idea behind preregistration is freezing your project state plus explanatory notes on what you intend to do and why (Krypotos et al, 2022). Uploading a preregistration creates a timestamp that can later be checked to see whether the researchers stuck to the intended plans.…”

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Making Preregistration Accessible: An R Package to Make Machine-Readable Preregistrations and Create New Preregistration Forms

Eijk¹,

Jiang²,

Peters³

2023

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Preregistration, the practice of publicly depositing comprehensive plans for a study prior to data collection, has many benefits, such as facilitating planning, making it easier to identify certain biases, or even directly ameliorate certain biases, such as publication bias. However, the present preregistration landscape leaves some room for improvement. First, preregistration forms are administered by a select few organizations, which constrains methodological and epistemic diversity. This can be brought more in line with the democratic principles underlying Open Science by making it easy for anybody to create preregistration forms. Second, preregistration forms are not machine-readable, requiring resource-intensive and error-prone work to be compiled into a dataset analysable for meta-scientific purposes. We present {preregr}, an R package allowing anybody to create a preregistration form. We explain how to use it, briefly illustrate this at the hand of the Inclusivity & Diversity Add-on for preregistration forms, and describe a number of methods that can be used to arrive at new preregistration forms with their benefits and drawbacks.

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Making Preregistration Accessible: An R Package to Make Machine-Readable Preregistrations and Create New Preregistration Forms

Eijk¹,

Jiang²,

Peters³

2023

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“…It is believed that preregistration can help reduce bias, increase transparency, and improve study design (especially replicability) of research (e.g. Nosek et al 2018;Krypotos et al 2022), including exploratory research such as some aspects of biodiversity discovery and taxonomy (Dirnagl et al 2020). While preregistration has been already employed in other fields such as social sciences (e.g.…”

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Researchers propose preregistration in taxonomy to enhance transparency and credibility and reduce subjectivity

Zhang

2023

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A new opinion piece published in Megataxa today (Conix et al. 2023) calls for preregistration in the field of taxonomy and discusses its potential benefits and objections. Preregistration is a practice for researchers to document their hypotheses, design and methods of their proposed studies in a public repository before they start the study and collect the data (Nosek et al. 2018). It is believed that preregistration can help reduce bias, increase transparency, and improve study design (especially replicability) of research (e.g. Nosek et al. 2018; Krypotos et al. 2022), including exploratory research such as some aspects of biodiversity discovery and taxonomy (Dirnagl et al. 2020). While preregistration has been already employed in other fields such as social sciences (e.g. Camerer et al. 2016, 2018) and ecology/evolution (e.g. Kelly 2019), it has yet been adopted in taxonomy. Conix et al. (2023) argue that preregistration could be beneficial for taxonomy, given the challenges it faces, such as subjectivity, disagreement, and credibility:

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Freeing Social and Medical Scientists from the Replication Crisis

Hyman

2024

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Preregistration: Definition, Advantages, Disadvantages, and How It Can Help Against Questionable Research Practices

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Cited by 3 publications

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Making Preregistration Accessible: An R Package to Make Machine-Readable Preregistrations and Create New Preregistration Forms

Making Preregistration Accessible: An R Package to Make Machine-Readable Preregistrations and Create New Preregistration Forms

Researchers propose preregistration in taxonomy to enhance transparency and credibility and reduce subjectivity

Freeing Social and Medical Scientists from the Replication Crisis

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