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ACP to publish Registered Reports
Author(s) -
Davies Graham M.,
Granhag PärAnders
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.3456
Subject(s) - rigour , publication , plan (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , process (computing) , quality (philosophy) , medical education , engineering ethics , public relations , computer science , political science , medicine , law , epistemology , engineering , philosophy , archaeology , history , programming language , operating system
In step with other leading psychology journals, Applied Cognitive Psychology will now consider applications for Registered Reports (RRs). RRs require researchers to submit to the journal a precise research plan, including the rationale, method, hypotheses, and method of analysis. Such submissions will be reviewed in the same way and to the same standard as conventional journal articles. If the submission wins approval from the journal's editors, this will ensure publication of both the plan and, later, the completed research in ACP, provided that the plan has been adhered to. Traditional papers submitted to ACP that do not involve preregistration will continue to be welcomed and reviewed in the usual way. The aim of preregistration is to increase the proportion of rigorous, reliable, and credible research conducted within our discipline. By declaring an explicit plan prior to the conduct of the research, RR aims to eliminate the possibility of submitting only selected findings, changing hypotheses in the light of results and other forms of data