10 years after we created Registered Reports, the thing critics assured us would never (in a million years) happen has happened: @Nature is offering them.

The Registered Reports initiative just went up a gear and we are one step closer to eradicating publication bias and reporting bias from science.

Congratulations to all involved in achieving this milestone.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2

Nature welcomes Registered Reports

From this week, Nature will be publishing an additional type of research paper — designed to encourage rigour and replication.

@chrisdc77 @Nature It must have been a while since I last said it, but: You are amazing. Breaking down wall, after wall, after wall!

@lakens @Nature Thanks Daniel 🤜 very kind as always! All credit to Magdalena and the teams at various Nature journals who have taken RRs seriously from the early days.

Meanwhile, the nice thing about knocking down walls isthat they're not hard to find - everywhere you look in science you see another one! Onward.

@chrisdc77 @Nature holy guacamole! Well done and thanks for sharing.

@chrisdc77 @Nature

I am amazed. Congratulations to everybody!

@chrisdc77 @Nature

The contrast between the two types of article is going to be sooo jarring.

@chrisdc77 @Nature
"The fundamental principle underpinning a Registered Report is that a journal commits to publishing a paper if the research question and the methodology chosen to address it pass peer review, with the result itself taking a back seat." šŸ‘šŸ¼ Bravo

@chrisdc77 @Nature

The penny has dropped. This means that failures will be reported strengthen #evidence

@Nature @chrisdc77 Sci Reports has been offering them for a while (I’m an editor - just received my first Stage 2, exciting!). Good stuff!