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Journal1. Includes pre-study peer review2. Offers provisional pre-study acceptance3. Permanence of adoption4. Link to policy5. Year of addoption6. Number of published registered reports7. Offered for novel studies8. Offered for replication studies9. Offered for meta-analysis10. Offered for analyses of existing data sets11. Publishes Registered Reports only12. Allows reporting of unregistered analyses13. Includes post-study peer review14. Allows inclusion of unregistered pilot studies15. Requires public data deposition16. Specifies structured criteria for editorial decisions17. Requires submitted protocols to have prior ethical approval18. Specifies minimum statistical power requirements19. Will publish ‘Withdrawn Registrations’20. Publishes accepted protocols, in full or part, prior to study completion21. Offers incremental (sequential) registration22. Offers incremental addition of unregistered studiesLink to journal Note
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Animals✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.mdpi.com/about/article_types/registered_reports 20200✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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Animal Behavior and Cognition✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/submissions.php ??✓✓✓✓✓✓ (discretionary)✓
https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/index.php
Can't find RR
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BMC Biology✓✓Indefinitehttps://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/about/registered-reports 20172✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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BMC Ecology - is now BMC Ecology and Evolution✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.biomedcentral.com/p/registered-reports 20170✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Can't find link to RR policy
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Conservation Biology✓✓Indefinitehttps://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15231739/homepage/forauthors.html2019?1✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence✓✓Indefinitehttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/26888319/registered-reports-author-guidelines ?4 (2 on stage 1, 2 on stage 2)✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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Ecology and Evolution✓✓Indefinitehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20457758/homepage/registeredreports.html2023?1✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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Environment International✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.elsevier.com/journals/environment-international/0160-4120/guidance-notes ?? ✓ (systematic reviews)✓✓✓✓
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/environment-international/0160-4120/guide-for-authors
No RR
Environment International endorses the Registered Reports manuscript format for systematic reviews and evidence maps, welcoming protocols for planned projects.
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Frontiers in Plant Science✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/for-authors/article-types ??✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/for-authors/article-types
No RR
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Built Environment ✓✓Indefinitehttps://ipbe.innorenew.eu/ipbe/about TBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBA
https://ipbe.innorenew.eu/ipbe/registeredreports
Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal
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Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science ✓✓Indefinitehttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15222624/homepage/forauthors.html2018??✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/15222624/Registered%20Report_June_2018-1527859765907.pdf
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Nature Communications✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.nature.com/ncomms/submit/registered-reports 20201✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal
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PCI Ecology✓✓Indefinitehttps://ecology.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_reviewers#h_56419083015251619016568634 ? 0?TBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBATBA
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Plant Direct✓✓Indefinite
https://plantae.org/plant-direct-publishes-registered-reports/
20191?✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/24754455/homepage/registeredreports.html?=
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PLOS Biology✓✓Indefinitehttps://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/what-we-publish 20201✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001611
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PLOS ONE✓✓Indefinitehttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/what-we-publish 2020188 (registered report prolocols, not sure if any published)✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
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Royal Society Open Science✓✓Indefinitehttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/registered-reports 2016?✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal
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Scientific Reports✓✓Indefinitehttps://www.nature.com/srep/journal-policies/registered-reports 20217✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal
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Ethology✓✓Indefinite
Ethology now publishes Registered Reports (wiley.com)
20220✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14390310/homepage/forauthors.html
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AAS Open Research✓✓Indefinite??0✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://openresearchafrica.org/for-authors/article-guidelines/preparing-a-registered-report
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Discover Sustainability✓✓Indefinite??0✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://www.springer.com/journal/43621/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Article%20Types
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F1000✓✓Indefinite
https://blog.f1000.com/2018/05/31/registered-reports-support-reproducibility-author-reviewer-conversation/
2017?5✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://think.f1000research.com/registered-reports/#:~:text=Registered%20Reports%20are%20a%20form,almost%20any%20field%20of%20study.
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Nature✓✓Indefinite
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2
20230✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/registered-reports
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PeerJ Life and Environment
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https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284886030/peerj-and-peer-community-in/
2021??✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://peerj.com/about/author-instructions/
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PNAS Nexus✓✓Indefinite
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oup-academic_pnas-nexus-now-publishes-registered-reports-activity-7034552498581340160-A59N/?originalSubdomain=my
20230✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/pages/registered-reports-guidelines
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