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1 | Journal | 1. Includes pre-study peer review | 2. Offers provisional pre-study acceptance | 3. Permanence of adoption | 4. Link to policy | 5. Year of addoption | 6. Number of published registered reports | 7. Offered for novel studies | 8. Offered for replication studies | 9. Offered for meta-analysis | 10. Offered for analyses of existing data sets | 11. Publishes Registered Reports only | 12. Allows reporting of unregistered analyses | 13. Includes post-study peer review | 14. Allows inclusion of unregistered pilot studies | 15. Requires public data deposition | 16. Specifies structured criteria for editorial decisions | 17. Requires submitted protocols to have prior ethical approval | 18. Specifies minimum statistical power requirements | 19. Will publish ‘Withdrawn Registrations’ | 20. Publishes accepted protocols, in full or part, prior to study completion | 21. Offers incremental (sequential) registration | 22. Offers incremental addition of unregistered studies | Link to journal | Note | |
2 | Animals | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.mdpi.com/about/article_types/registered_reports | 2020 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
3 | Animal Behavior and Cognition | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/submissions.php | ? | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (discretionary) | ✓ | https://www.animalbehaviorandcognition.org/index.php | Can't find RR | ||||||||||
4 | BMC Biology | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/about/registered-reports | 2017 | 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
5 | BMC Ecology - is now BMC Ecology and Evolution | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.biomedcentral.com/p/registered-reports | 2017 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Can't find link to RR policy | |||||||||
6 | Conservation Biology | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/15231739/homepage/forauthors.html | 2019? | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||||
7 | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/26888319/registered-reports-author-guidelines | ? | 4 (2 on stage 1, 2 on stage 2) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||||
8 | Ecology and Evolution | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/20457758/homepage/registeredreports.html | 2023? | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||
9 | Environment International | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://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. | |||||||||||
10 | Frontiers in Plant Science | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/for-authors/article-types | ? | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/for-authors/article-types | No RR | ||||||||||
11 | Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Built Environment | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://ipbe.innorenew.eu/ipbe/about | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | https://ipbe.innorenew.eu/ipbe/registeredreports | Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal | |||
12 | Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15222624/homepage/forauthors.html | 2018? | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/15222624/Registered%20Report_June_2018-1527859765907.pdf | ||||||||
13 | Nature Communications | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.nature.com/ncomms/submit/registered-reports | 2020 | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal | ||||||||
14 | PCI Ecology | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://ecology.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_reviewers#h_56419083015251619016568634 | ? | 0? | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | |||
15 | Plant Direct | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://plantae.org/plant-direct-publishes-registered-reports/ | 2019 | 1? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/24754455/homepage/registeredreports.html?= | |||||||
16 | PLOS Biology | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/s/what-we-publish | 2020 | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001611 | |||||||
17 | PLOS ONE | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/what-we-publish | 2020 | 188 (registered report prolocols, not sure if any published) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
18 | Royal Society Open Science | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/registered-reports | 2016 | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal | |||||||
19 | Scientific Reports | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.nature.com/srep/journal-policies/registered-reports | 2021 | 7 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Not sure if should be counted as ecological journal | ||||||
20 | Ethology | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | Ethology now publishes Registered Reports (wiley.com) | 2022 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14390310/homepage/forauthors.html | |||||||||||
21 | AAS Open Research | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | ? | ? | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://openresearchafrica.org/for-authors/article-guidelines/preparing-a-registered-report | |||||||||||
22 | Discover Sustainability | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | ? | ? | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://www.springer.com/journal/43621/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Article%20Types | |||||||||||
23 | 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. | |||||||||||
24 | Nature | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2 | 2023 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/registered-reports | |||||||||||
25 | PeerJ Life and Environment | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284886030/peerj-and-peer-community-in/ | 2021? | ? | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://peerj.com/about/author-instructions/ | |||||||||||
26 | PNAS Nexus | ✓ | ✓ | Indefinite | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oup-academic_pnas-nexus-now-publishes-registered-reports-activity-7034552498581340160-A59N/?originalSubdomain=my | 2023 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/pages/registered-reports-guidelines | |||||||||||
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