Registered Reports implement peer review prior to data collection. This format alleviates numerous questionable research practices by accepting articles before results exist and was recently shown to be associated with greater rigor and research quality than the standard publishing format. However, despite their importance in increasing the transparency and reliability... [Read More]

Preregistration is a time-stamped, publicly available document that researchers use to specify their research objectives, hypotheses, data collection protocol and analysis plans prior to beginning a study. This campaign asks you to preregister at least one study in the two years after your pledge activates. [Read More]

Many journals place publicly-funded research behind expensive paywalls, costing the research sector billions of dollars every year and preventing access to life-saving research. Despite these harmful effects on the research community and broader public, many researchers continue to support paywalled journals because their ‘prestige’ is important for career progression. But... [Read More]