Are #RegisteredReports new to your field?
Don’t see existing PCI RR recommenders in your area?

You can grow the PCI RR community by #recruiting recommenders in your field!

1) Contact PCI RR to start the discussion
2) Reach out to your colleagues (feel free to use PCI RR’s talking points https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IXIDLjUx4303JOrJWSi_xdHT2kLeVDIdOh2rc0lB2z4/edit?usp=sharing)
3) Send colleagues who are interested to PCI RR (make sure they mention you sent them)
4) PCI RR Managing Board vets the suggested candidates and sends official invitations

Thanks to @HeidiSeibold for a lovely blog post on PCI RR!

What a great summary of how @PeerCommunityIn and PCI RR work, and thanks for announcing that we're recruiting recommenders (editors)!

https://heidiseibold.ck.page/posts/peer-community-in-registered-reports
#RegisteredReports #OpenResearch #OpenPeerReview

8) As a PCI RR recommender, we follow PCI RR policies on selecting based on scientific validity (rather than subjective impact) and addressing implicit biases, which facilitates making academia more fair and improves the quality and rigor of published research

9) As a PCI RR recommender, we receive training in how to be a recommender (editor) and how to handle #RegisteredReports

6) PCI RR recommenders (editors) receive TRAINING in how to be an editor & have to pass a test before handling manuscripts. Increases & standardizes quality of review & decision process
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_recommenders#h_3413342024671613642959302
#RegisteredReports

6) PCI RR recommenders (editors) receive TRAINING in how to be an editor & have to pass a test before handling manuscripts. Increases & standardizes quality of review & decision process
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/help/guide_for_recommenders#h_3413342024671613642959302
#RegisteredReports

5c) Ability to CHANGE LEVELS on the Taxonomy of Bias Control opens up #RegisteredReports for students & postdocs with short term contracts, & projects tied to particular dates due to funding, resources, logistics, access, species/ecosystem characteristics, etc
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/full_policies#h_95790490510491613309490336

5b) Do you have an inflexible data collection start date? Level of Bias Taxonomy lets you CHANGE LEVELS! If data collection must start before the pre-study recommendation & your initial submission=Level 6 (data not yet collected), the RR drops to e.g. Level 1 (data observed, but not analyzed)
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/full_policies#h_95790490510491613309490336
#RegisteredReports

5a) The Taxonomy of Bias Control EXPANDS who can submit & benefit from #RegisteredReports! Now RRs apply to studies where data already exist & have been observed (but not analyzed). Great for new articles on existing data sets
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/full_policies#h_95790490510491613309490336
#RegisteredReports

5) Explicitly state & address the level of bias in your #RegisteredReport with PCI RR’s TAXONOMY OF BIAS CONTROL. Makes it clear what level of bias control is required for RR submissions to be eligible for consideration by PCI RR & PCI RR-friendly journals
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/full_policies#h_95790490510491613309490336
#RegisteredReports

4a) Programmatic #RegisteredReports save time because authors only submit 1 Stage 1 RR & it results in multiple final articles. Saves time for authors, recommenders & reviewers. Makes big picture clear from the start, rather than only in a review article after all articles are out
https://rr.peercommunityin.org/about/full_policies#h_52492857233251613309610581

8) As a PCI RR recommender, we follow PCI RR policies on selecting based on scientific validity (rather than subjective impact) and addressing implicit biases, which facilitates making academia more fair and improves the quality and rigor of published research

9) As a PCI RR recommender, we receive training in how to be a recommender (editor) and how to handle #RegisteredReports

6) As a PCI RR recommender, we see a variety of #RegisteredReports. This experience helps us learn more about the process and improves our own research and registered reports

7) As a PCI RR recommender, researchers oversee the peer review of registered reports both within and beyond a particular journal, thus increasing global reach - constructively shape the research record at a supra-journal level

Not completely what I wished to read, but there is much positive and much to learn from the "growing pains" of a journal and a community that is first confronted with #registeredreports.

@sophieschau @EmmaHendersonRR

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-34325-2

I think the calculus of #RegisteredReports might have flipped in a #SurveillancePublishing APC-driven #OpenAccess world.

Subscription models meant that a journal could command a high price by being in high demand in a self-reinforcing cycle where since most libraries subscribed to them then they would have high readership, etc. Multiply that by the power of bundling or whatever. Libraries being a conduit could tell who read what and tailor subscriptions accordingly. actual loss of readership could impact subscription cost during negotiations, so null results are less attractive because they command fewer readers and citations and whatnot. publication bias ensues. the classic story.

in an APC world, where the profit is derived from authors willing to directly pay more for the attendant view count and citation, the registered report is instead more like a commitment to pay at some future time to publish. if the prices keep going up, the journal effectively invests in your need to publish as a security.

this is doubly perverse in a surveillance publishing system, where the publishers operate paper recommendation and rating systems linked to funding and employment decisions. in that case, they can just manufacture the view count and citation - and even literal "scientific value score" - as a function of APC price, so null results aren't even a problem since the exclusivity-prestige link is partially dissolved.

I wonder if causes for publication bias could have changed substantially enough that registered reports could backfire as a means of combating publication bias. Since the primary filter is the perceived importance of a piece of work - assuming the authors could pass some competency and design check normal to the field - which is most likely to be at least partially evaluated by the same system of self-fulfilling metrics used in the recommendation/scoring systems for funders and employers, they might directly reinforce hype cycles. couple that again with the prestige gradient model of APC pricing where one publisher owns many Journals at different prestige levels and can bounce you down the ladder to one with a lower but still high APC.

Journals then would then be effectively sorting papers by APC according to the propensity for views/citations, regardless of outcome. It's sort of a combination of payola and security. plz lmk where I'm missing something here bc not just trying to shit on the parade.

Great news that @Nature is going to accept #RegisteredReports !

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

@EmmaHendersonRR

PCI RR authors, recommenders, & reviewers (@MKarhulahti, @PeterBranney, Miia Siutila, & moin syed) got together and wrote a wonderful article for qualitative researchers!

"A primer for choosing, designing and evaluating registered reports for qualitative methods"

https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/3-22/v1

#RegisteredReports #QualitativeResearch

Our researcher-run community has grown more rapidly than expected. We are currently receiving lots of submissions & need more recommenders (editors), especially in the fields of #consciousness, #neuroimaging, #psychology, behavioral #economics, #astronomy, & #socialsciences. Please help us grow as a community by recruiting recommenders in your area

Find out more: https://rr.peercommunityin.org/help/become_a_recommenders

Learn why PCI RR recommenders find the experience rewarding https://spore.social/@pcirr/109720811781462323

#RegisteredReports

BENEFITS to RESEARCHERS of being a PCI RR recommender (continued)

8) As a PCI RR recommender, we follow PCI RR policies on selecting based on scientific validity (rather than subjective impact) and addressing implicit biases, which facilitates making academia more fair and improves the quality and rigor of published research

9) As a PCI RR recommender, we receive training in how to be a recommender (editor) and how to handle #RegisteredReports

Back to 1)... https://spore.social/@pcirr/109720811781462323

BENEFITS to RESEARCHERS of being a PCI RR recommender (continued)

6) As a PCI RR recommender, we see a variety of #RegisteredReports. This experience helps us learn more about the process and improves our own research and registered reports

7) As a PCI RR recommender, researchers oversee the peer review of registered reports both within and beyond a particular journal, thus increasing global reach - constructively shape the research record at a supra-journal level

8) https://spore.social/@pcirr/109720834496329966

BENEFITS to RESEARCHERS of being a PCI RR recommender (continued)

3) A PCI RR recommender’s recommendation counts as a research output. It's posted at the PCI RR website, has a DOI, is citable, and shows up in your google scholar profile

4)... https://spore.social/@pcirr/109720826178583692

#RegisteredReports